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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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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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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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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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”.
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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
Continue Reading
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
Continue Reading
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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The dark, oneiric dubs of Sarmacja
Sarmacja is marching between national ecstasy, exhaustion and anger, weekend joys and the mundane greyness of everyday life in the provinces. It is a rhythmical landscape of
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Quarantine music
Music as a form of catharsis, recycling of ideas or means to bring aid – three albums recorded during the quarantine prove that it served as
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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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Lea Bertucci: site-specific artist
– When I was in school I studied contemporary art and I was always interested in the ideas of land artists such as Robert Smithson or Nancy Holt from 1960s, who were really concerned with the ideas of site, non-site and what does it mean to take an object or element from a site and relocate it elsewhere. I became interested in those sorts of ideas applied to music and acoustics – says artist and composer, Lea Bertucci
Wacław Zimpel: follow the moment
– Rather than the instrument itself, what’s important is whether you find an idea for it and whether it meets your expectations concerning the music you want to play – says clarinettist and composer Wacław Zimpel.
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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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30 albumów, które uratowały 2020
Pandemia, streamingi, lokalność, bandcampowe piątki i 30 płyt, dzięki którym nieznośny rok 2020 był bardziej do wytrzymania. >>Read in English<< 2020 roku pozostanie w pamięci jako
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