The band Alhena are: Marta „Bastica” Bejma (vocals), Piotr Kowalski (keyboards), Tomasz Bogulski (guitar), Piotr Grugel (drums) and Grzegorz Ostrowski (bass).

The group was formed in January 2010 in Bydgoszcz as a realization of passions for making own music visions by people who met shortly after leaving previous music groups. It was found by: Piotr Kowalski, Tomasz Bogulski, Piotr Grugel and then-bassist Robert Puk. After a few months of looking for a vocalist, Katarzyna Dziemianowicz became a member of the group. Then, Tadeusz Kołecki took Robert’s place on the bass guitar. In such a make-up the group began intensive work on composing material. It resulted in an EP, on which five tracks showed up. The recording took place from July to September 2011 in MG-Studio in Bydgoszcz under Marcin Grzella‘s supervision.

After a few concerts promoting the recorded material, warm reception from the audience and many favorable opinions in the media, both local and foreign, the group decided to start working on the material for their debut album.

In March 2011, after almost two years of working together, Katarzyna Dziemianowicz decided left the band. The missing link was filled by Natalia „Natt” Bassak, who became a member of the band in the same month. Then, on September 2012, Tadeusz Kolecki left the group and on February 2013 this gap was filled with Grzegorz Ostrowski. But it was not the end of changes, because on September 2013 paths of the band and its vocalist Natalia Bassak has diverged. Also on September, the wanted “fifth element”, Marta Bejma appeared. In the following line-up Alhena continues its activity.

Similar thinking and hearing, together with various fascinations and life experiences have resulted into present form of music expression. In our opinion, such expression might be interesting for people who look for compositions with their own, unique form. This is the reason why we don’t want to call the kind of music we make unequivocally. We are leaving it up to the receivers.

Source : http://alhenaband.com/biografia/?lang=en