It's Not Too Late

I can say that album ‚Into the Light‘ has been created by chance.

Few years ago together with Lisa Gerrard we visited synagogue in a small town hundred kilometres from Cracow, Bobowa. When we entered the synagogue Lisa started to sing. It appeared that the place had spine-tingling acoustics. I said then to Lisa: ”let’s try to record something here”.

The rule was simple: I prepared themes and we recorded live performance. Lisa heard what I was playing for the first time during the recording and she improvised. We recorded nine compositions in 45 minutes. It supposed to be a holiday joy.

Six years later I returned to the material we recorded and decided to finish it. What is left from the original recording is the voice of Lisa. I composed and recorded everything else in my studio. That’s the way the album It’s not too late came in to being.

We live in the most dangerous time since the Second World War. Firstly we experienced the pandemic of covid-19, now horrible war in Ukraine. The old order in the world stopped to exist on February 24th 2022 destroyed by Russian aggression.

The uncertainty as to the future became part of our lives. We want to give some hope with that album, we want to give some serenity, we want to give time for reflection:

How do we live?

Where are we heading now?

Are we going to survive?

Zbigniew Preisner