Music
My Indian Summer - Single
My Indian Summer is a composition by Krzysia Górniak with lyrics by Rui Teles – a tender ode to the end of summer, to the moments we wish we could hold on to. The gentle bossa nova rhythm and poetic phrases create an atmosphere of warmth and melancholy. In Rui Teles’s words, one can hear both a longing for what is passing and the joy of being here and now – with someone close, with whom the world feels simpler and more beautiful.
The song moves between English and Portuguese, giving it an intimate, multicultural character – as if it connects two worlds, two ways of feeling, and two languages of the heart. Colorful images of late summer – sunsets, sailing on the wooden catamaran Otakoo, sharing food and fun – blend with the warmth and calm that love brings. My Indian Summer is a story about how summer can last longer – in our memories, emotions, and music.
Musicians: Krzysia Górniak (guitar), Rui Teles (vocals), Olga Barej (backing vocals), Michał Jaros (double bass), Marcin Jahr (drums, percussion), Jeremiasz Hendzel (recording, mixing, mastering)
Music video & single premiere: 21 November 2025
Listen: https://nextmusic.ffm.to/myindiansummer
Partners fundacjadiuna.pl
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Laola Team
PJOA Outrigger Canoes
Prato Do Dia – portugalski food truck na Mazurach
Astrolabe's first album
The first Astrolabe album — Krzysia Górniak & Rui Teles — premiered on December 4, 2022.
The album Astrolabe opens with Krzysia Górniak’s composition Sweet Almonds, whose instrumental version appeared on her album Memories (2020). This time, presented in a vocal–instrumental arrangement, it sets the mood and musical atmosphere of the record. It is a warm bossa nova with a Portuguese feeling, a reminiscence of joyful summer days. Rui Teles wrote the lyrics and performed the song as a duet with Olga Barej. It is a story about searching for love, sailing under the stars, across the seas of emotions — about how love can stir up our lives and how we can truly enjoy it. The band also filmed a music video for the song, with footage shot on the Hel Peninsula and in the Masurian Lake District together with the excellent Laola Team film crew.
The album also features other original compositions, such as Astrolabio (music and lyrics by Rui Teles), a story about the search for love, captured in a dream of dancing among the stars with a beloved one on an astrolabe. Another piece, the evocative Nascente do Fado (a joint composition by Maciej Wieżyński, Rui Teles, and Krzysia Górniak), is Rui’s tale about destiny, which he describes as the fountainhead of fado…
Musicians: Rui Teles (vocals), Krzysia Górniak (guitar), Maciej Wieżyński (guitar), Michał Jaros (double bass), Marcin Jahr (drums, percussion), Olga Barej (backing vocals), Jeremiasz Hendzel (recording, mixing, mastering)
Interview with Krzysia and Maciej for Radio Lublin
Medley
Sweet Almonds z koncertu w Kalinowym Sercu
Band
Astrolabe is a band that blends Slavic sensitivity with the Portuguese nostalgia of fado and the fluid rhythm of bossa nova. It is formed by Krzysia Górniak – a Polish guitarist, composer, and producer – and Rui Teles, a vocalist and lyricist from Aveiro, Portugal. Their music is an emotional voyage through a world of sounds, where jazz meets southern sunshine and melancholy intertwines with the joy of life.
Originally from northern Portugal, Rui Teles developed his musical sensibility during nearly fifteen years spent in Lisbon. He was most strongly inspired by its oldest district — Alfama, a place that tastes of green wine, smells of the ocean, and whose narrow streets echo with nostalgic fado intertwined with the colorful sounds of Lusophone countries.
n 2016, fate brought Rui to Poland, to the small Masurian village of Rydzewo. It was here that he fell in love, started a family, and opened Prato Do Dia — a Portuguese food truck in the Masurian region. The story of the band Astrolabe was also born in Masuria, one evening by a bonfire, when Rui met Krzysia Górniak, who traditionally spends her summers sailing on the local lakes.
On that summer evening, their first shared musical sounds emerged, along with the idea to combine Krzysia’s jazz-infused, Slavic guitar tone with Rui’s Portuguese sensitivity.
The band’s name, Astrolabe, refers to an ancient navigational instrument whose name comes from the Greek word ἁστρολάβον astrolabon — “star-catcher.” In the past, the astrolabe was an astronomical device used during sea voyages to determine the position of celestial bodies above the horizon.
Astrolabe’s music is also a journey — into distant lands filled with southern sunshine, love, hope, and joy.
In December 2022, the debut album Astrolabe - Krzysia Górniak & Rui Teleswas released, promoted by the single Sweet Almond. After a series of concerts between 2023 and 2025, the band returns with new material and the premiere of the single My Indian Summer, announcing their upcoming record.
A mood-filled music video was also created for the song, filmed in Masuria, capturing the magical atmosphere of late summer.
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