Season 6 - Bal u Rafała

Ralph Kaminski

## Enter The Season

The fourth season of **Jaracza's Music Getaway,** conducted by Weronika. This season, the participants discovered the discography of **Ralph Kaminski**.

## About The Artist

**Rafał Stanisław Kamiński** (born November 8, 1990), known professionally as **Ralph Kaminski**, is a Polish singer-songwriter experimenting with musical styles, including alternative pop and chamber music. Recipient of the Grzegorz Ciechowski Artistic Award of the City of Toruń (2020) and two nominations during 26th Fryderyk Awards Gala.

Kaminski was born and raised in Jasło. His mother is a teacher. He has a younger brother, Wiktor. His cousin is a fellow singer Michał Szpak, Ralph himself confirmed this at Kuba Wojewódzki.

He developed an interest in music as a child. At the age of 11, Kaminski started attending vocal classes at the Jasło Cultural Centre. He studied art and music before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 2010. Kaminski graduated from the Jazz and Popular Music Department at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. He also studied at the Pop Department of Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam.

In 2009, he appeared in one of the episodes of TVP2 programme *Szansa na Sukces*, performing a song by Perfect "Objazdowe nieme kino". In 2012 he took part in the second edition of the TVN talent show X Factor; he performed Norah Jones' song "Don't Know Why" during the auditions. He was eliminated at the bootcamp stage.

## Background

The only person to know about the next season was Jules and Eric. Weronika's plan was to make a Taylor Swift main artist of the season, however Eric came with this idea as well. The plan has not changed until Eric publicly spoke about the trailer he prepared for Taylor Swift. There was brief idea, that both Weronika and Eric would collaborate on together producing the season, however Weronika immediatly disapproved on this idea. That was the final straw, that made Weronika change her mind to present *Ralph Kaminski* isntead. The results of Kilo Kish albums were presented, and after that Weronika has taken over with the season trailer. It was the first instance, that the participants were not given full schedule of each album, and instead each week had presented only the next upcoming albun. The artist was chosen due to...

This season was the third one, where the results were presented in a video (previously seen on Jaracza's Gaga Getaway and Who Is Kilo Kish).

## Promotion and Schedule

The season was not highly promoted with artist introduction, as since the first week the participants were already listening to the first album. Each album started on Monday midnight, with deadline on Saturday, and results presented via video on Sunday.

The results videos were combined into a YouTube playlist, available ().

## Final

The last night with Ralph started with Weronika's arrival at Jaracza at 20:50, just 10 minutes before a set time. Coldly welcomed by Jules and warned that under no circumstances may she enter her room, Weronika decided to pass the time in the living room where she found four mysteriously looking sausages squeezed on the couch watching something. As it later turned out the four sausages were Jakub, Kacper, Doma and Witek from Wrocław, the city of love. After a brief moment of acknowledging each other's presence, everybody continued their activities while Weronika decided to busy herself with fact-checking *Under the Banner of Heaven*. After a while something started to feel a bit strange and due to the fact that her brain was working so slowly that day, it took her a while to realise that somebody was missing. It took her another while to realise who was missing. Another mistery to solve was where they were but what is surprising (or not), it didn't even occur to her to wonder what they were doing.

Some time passed and everybody started to crawl out of their cages. It was a clear sign that the night was about to start, this time for real. After everybody made sure they wouldn't want to pee during the event nor have any more food or drinks, they made sure again always holding the golden principle of not leaving the room unless other person who went out of the room came back to that very room and took their seat.

First point of the list was to watch music videos from the album *Morze*. The participants were joined by Wrocław team out of whom the most outstanding was Kacper who offered his no context but very valuable and warmly welcomed interpretations. Crowd's reactions were focused mostly around the videos for *Meybick Song* and *Zawsze* which elicited generally positive emotions as compared to *Morze* and *Lato bez ciebie*. It's also important to point out that Jules found out who Meybick was which enabled everybody to watch the videos with more understanding.

Młodość offered the widest variety of interpretations and sparked a heated debate among the crowd, however difficult to recall so the description ends here.

Most liked video of *Kora* was *Po prostu bądź* and it also might be the top one MV of Ralph's the participants watched that night even though nothing happens in that video.

Bal u Rafała met with the most critical reception of all albums.

In between the albums there were breaks for google forms summaries prepared by Weronika. After the summaries Jules aka Miaua Kicia informed that there was another MV of Ralph's that hadn't been played yet (according to Jules, very fresh, very new and unknown to the public). However, as she stated, she only knew about it cause she had met Ralph in Łódź that very day, allegedly. With no objections to this ultimately believable story, the video was played receiving praise and highly positive reviews from the critics.

Then there was time for the results filling the room with barking Ralph, shock, disbelief, tears of happiness, shrieks of joy, disappointment and everything else. Last goodbyes were said during the appendix, accompanied by Sexy from Mean Girls. Congrats to Doma for winning a lot.

Then it was time for Wiciu's show.

The music videos were collected in a playlist, found under this link.

   Just before the final results were played, a surprise by Jules was announced. This was a mash-up of *Ralph Kamins**ki*'s songs, made by Wiciu, Jules, and Kacper Busiowy, who was filming them. Additionally some scenes include Doma, Eric, Weronika and the NYE party guests.