– Piano doesn’t have to be a beautiful instrument with a Steinway concert hall sound, but it can be a piano that sounds like it came
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Listening in/to the dark
Although they rely on completely different means of expression, Yvette Janine Jackson’s radio operas and heavy doom metal played by Divide and Dissolve both aptly recount
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Winning with algorithms
Surrounded by electronic artists with an overdependence on software and new technologies, who fail to produce satisfying results despite the surplus of equipment, wh0wh0 shows the
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João Pais Filipe: I don’t like to associate my music with anything
– I know what the sound is going to be in the end. Before I start to record something, I’m making cymbals on purpose for that.
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30 albums that save 2020
The coronavirus pandemic, music in streaming, locality, Bandcamp Fridays, and 30 albums that made 2020 a little less frustrating. Translation: Aleksandra Szkudłapska 2020 will be remembered
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Rekomendacje
Paris goes “pop”
With the summer festival season almost drawing to a close, the faint of heart dreading the gloomier seasons of the year had better plan some happy distractions in advance. Check out the first autumn festival recommendation, the Paris Popfest.
Solidarity at Unsound
The Unsound festival will take place in Krakow for the seventeenth time from 6th to 13th of October. This year theme will be “Solidarity”.
Recenzje
Listening in/to the dark
Although they rely on completely different means of expression, Yvette Janine Jackson’s radio operas and heavy doom metal played by Divide and Dissolve both aptly recount
Continue Reading
Winning with algorithms
Surrounded by electronic artists with an overdependence on software and new technologies, who fail to produce satisfying results despite the surplus of equipment, wh0wh0 shows the
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The best (Astral Spirits) records of 2020
From collective improvisation, through minimalism, ambient passages, drones and heavy guitars. Here’s my showcase of the most interesting Astral Spirits AD 2020 releases. Translation: Aleksandra Szkudłapska
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Unusual instruments, unique instrumentalists
Susan Alcorn has released the first album where she is the frontwoman. Brandee Younger documents sessions recorded during the pandemic. Both play two rather rare instruments
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Magnificent 7: what you can do with a guitar
From primitive improvisations, through post-punk melodies, prepared instrument to metal walls of sound. Welcome to the showcase of the so-called guitar music, which uses guitars, preferably
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Tour de jazz
Sophomore albums from Emil Miszk and Immortal Onion represent a consistent move forward, once again proving that the Gdańsk jazz scene is the leader of the
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Pink is the new Black
The colour pink on the covers of Siksa, Blóm and Mentos Gulgendo’s new albums is confusing. It indicates a new feminist perspective, but not just that.
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New Weird Russia
Post-punk improvisations, jazz metal, doom metal flirting with folk or algorithmic electronics – welcome to a showcase of the youngest Russian scene in all its eclectic
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Grzegorz Tarwid: out of piano comfort zone
– Piano doesn’t have to be a beautiful instrument with a Steinway concert hall sound, but it can be a piano that sounds like it came
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João Pais Filipe: I don’t like to associate my music with anything
– I know what the sound is going to be in the end. Before I start to record something, I’m making cymbals on purpose for that.
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Mary Halvorson: playing with traditions
– The more time passed, the more women I would meet and play with. And these days it’s not uncommon for me to play in bands
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Kate NV: magical ordinariness
– Victor Pivovarov works about Moscow describe the reality, routine and ordinary life, but at the same there’s something very strange about his paintings. There’s a
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AUDYCJE W RADIU KAPITAŁ
Grzegorz Tarwid: out of piano comfort zone
– Piano doesn’t have to be a beautiful instrument with a Steinway concert hall sound, but it can be a piano that sounds like it came
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Grzegorz Tarwid: poza strefą komfortu fortepianu
– Fortepian nie musi być pięknym instrumentem o brzmieniu Steinwaya z sal koncertowych, ale może to być pianino, które brzmi jak wyjęte ze starego filmu. Wtedy,
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