Maciej Mustafa Gizejewski

World percussion & drumset

Teachers

Zbigniew Lowzyl, Swen Wigger, Ramesh Shotam, Giridhar Ghatam Udupa, Enildo Rasua, Marvin Diz,
Zohar Fresco, Xavi Turull

He played with

Trilok Gurtu (India), Panagiotis Andreou (Gr/USA), Stanisław Soyka, Krzysztof Ścierański, Magda
Navarrete, Kasia Rościńska, Krzysztof Błaś, Jurek Owsiak, Kabaret Lowcy.B, Beata Kossowska, Teo
Barrea(Spain), Dennis Hernandez(Cuba), Mateo El Gallito (Slovakia), Jose Angel Carmona Manzano
(Spain), Joaquin El Duende(Spain), Danza Del Fuego, Ngomez Nokass (Senegal), Lanaya (Burkina
Faso), Gedeon Jerubbaal & Inity Dub Mission (PL/Canada), Cheb Miloud (Algeria), Fanfara
Transylwania (Romania), Hornsman Coyote (Croatia), Mc Czar (USA), Emam (Iran/USA), Dj Zhao
(China), Ramesh Shotam (India), Alex Acuna (Peru/USA), Ocho Punto G (Dominican Republic/Spain)

Endorsement

Schlagwerk (Germany), PRK percussion (Spain), CC Percussion (Poland)

Achievements
• 3times Guinness record co-production
- The biggest number of people playing on one instrument
- The biggest number of people playing instruments made from garbage
2008(Dni Ziemi,Poznan) i 2010(festiwal Przystanek Woodstock, Kostrzyn n/Odra)
• 4th place in 2nd Cajon Flamenco Competition 2009 in Barcelona
• 1st place in all polish young drummers contest of Drum Shop for the best composition
• Co-creating the music for flamenco theatre play Carmen Concierto TTNTF Małgorzata
Matuszewska
• Artistic director of International Percussion Festival "Korzenie Rytmu" Poznan 2009-till now
  2 week tour in Ireland and 3 month contract in Morocco with Ocho Punto G - salsa,
merengue, bachata band from Barcelona

Recordings
• Female gospel choir Concentio "Kolędy" (2006)
• Lovzyl&Novikow – Love Story Movies (2008)
• Ictus SS "Kontruderzenie" – Imazighen (2008)
• Gedeon Jerubbaal – Okręty Kolumba live @ Ostróda Reggae Fest 2008 (2010)
• Magda Navarrete – Iman (2010)
• Krzysztof Błaś – Zmagania Gitarowe (instructional dvd for) (2010)
• Sławek Dolata – Szkoła na gitarę flamenco (dvd) (2010)
• "Potrafimy Zwyciężać" with New Afro-Polish Folklore – musical narration of Wielkopolskie
Uprising (2011)
 Polarison acoustic jazz (2011)
 Brasilomania – Russian documentary on samba worldwide (2011)
 Krzysztof Błaś (2013)
 Wolna Sobota (2013)
 Eva Nawrot (2013)

Workshops

• Procter & Gamble – 200people. (in english)

• Woodstock Guinness record 2010 – 617people
• Allegro All For Planet – 100people
• Music Media Kraków 2010 –cajon clinic
• World Music Festival, Poznan 2007,2008,2009
• Since 2005 he's been conducting regular percussion workshops and individual classess all
over Poland and occasionally in Berlin and Barcelona
• He wrote a series of articles "Mustafa Cajon Flamenco Workshop" for polish "Perkusista"
magazine
 Drum Workshop for kids of Umea , Sweden – The European Capital Of Culture 2014

Festivals

Hiszpańska Niedziela Na Solcu, Duende ,Concurso De Cajon (Barcelona), Przystanek Woodstock ,

WOSP Poznan final, Wrocław Non-Stop ,Wroclove ,Ostróda Reggae Festiwal, Festiwal Gitarowy w
Krzyżowej, Misietupodoba, Rewizje, Fiesta Alegria Lublin, African Days Berlin 2004, Pilsner Urquell
Jazz Festiwal Poznan, TOFI FEST 2009, Nowe Nurty 2008 Poznan, Festiwal Teatralny Malta 2007
Poznan, Kontruderzenie, Międzynarodowe Warsztaty Tańca Współczesnego, Dancing Poznan,
Wrocław Summer Guitar Festiwal, Jarmark Świętojański, COP14 Poznan, No Women No Art,
Afrykamery, Poznan Maraton
 Current Projects
Bilongo (world music), Punto Latino (latin music), Danza Del Fuego (flamenco jazz), DrumWork (afro-
percussion)

Instruments
His main focuses are cajon, conga, djembe, darbuka, drumset and to complement his groove he
studies/plays instruments like:
- afro-cuban (bata, bongo, timbales),
- brazillian (surdo, repinique, timbau, caixa),
- african(dunun, tama, calebasse, udu, balafon),
- frame drums (kanjira,pandeiro,daf,riq,bendir),
- traditional and recycled percussion (shakery, caxixi, cabasa, chequere, chocalho, ago-go, campana
etc).