Adam Baran is a composer, music producer and noise maker based in Warsaw, Poland. He plays guitar and lap steel.  

He creates music as one half of the songwriting duo Pola Chobot & Adam Baran, leads experimental jazz group Helicopets and produces his own solo guitar recordings.
 In his twenties, he received a jazz education and graduated from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. At that time improvised music became his main focus.

Adam is a versatile musician comfortable across genres. He has performed lap steel guitar with Ambrose Akinmusire and the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell, presenting rediscovered orchestral works of Wayne Shorter. He has worked as a sideman guitarist with a variety of artists, including Michał Urbaniak, alternative bands Kamp!, Patrick the Pan, Swiernalis, and leading Polish pop artists: Alicja Szemplińska, Jann, Beata Kozidrak, Mela Koteluk.

His works with Pola Chobot include two LPs: Jak wyjść z domu, gdy na świecie mży?,  Burza and two EPs: Trzeba mi and Po burzy. These records have earned numerous awards and nominations from critics and music press in Poland (Emocje Radia Wrocław, O!lśnienia Onetu, Warto Gazety Wyborczej). Albums features guest appearances of Kathia, Ofelia and Roman Puchowski. Over the years, the duo has developed a distinctive, spacious and melancholic sound built around expressive guitar riffs and the poetic nature of the lyrics. They are regarded as one of the most significant voices in the contemporary Polish alternative scene. 

The most recent album with his Polish-Norwegian group Helicopets was released in April 2026 and is titled Helicopeter. The record draws on elements of avant-garde jazz, ambient, electronic music, and minimalism.

Adam is continuously performing across Europe at festivals and venues such as Sziget, Off Festival, Victoria Nasjonal Jazzstage Oslo, NOSPR Katowice, JazzFest Brno. As a sideman, he has toured Canada and the United States. In 2024, his jazz group Helicopets was selected by Nils Petter Molvaer, one of Adam’s musical heroes and head of the jury, as a finalist in the Jazz Juniors Competition. They received several awards at the competition, which will take them on a European tour in 2025 including performances in Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Poland.