This project began when we randomly stumbled upon a YouTube video of Poland’s Primuz Chamber Orchestra performing one of our songs, as reimagined by composer/arranger Wojtek Lemański. Their flawless execution of a highly challenging arrangement (which was startlingly inventive and yet remained entirely faithful to the spirit of the original composition!) inspired us to reach out and propose a collaboration.

That process ultimately led to this album, developed over the course of 2021. The complete work comprises nine trio performances taken from our previous studio albums, remixed from the ground up by award-winning engineer Forrester Savell and utterly transformed and reinvented by the orchestra’s stirring rendition of Wojtek Lemański’s string arrangements.

This approach enabled Wojtek to create orchestrations which treated many of the spontaneous, improvised elements from our original ‘band in a room’ takes as if they had been part of the actual compositions… yielding some unique results!

The album will drop just two weeks before the start of our first tour in over two years – the 10-week, 50-date North American DEFROST tour, on which new material will be debuted as well. All dates and ticket links are available at: https://the-aristocrats-band.com/shows