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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AuthorJakub Knera
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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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Ibérica electrica
Marion Cousin and Kaumwald move Iberian songs from the collective regional memory into a broader context, as if wanting to engage listeners in a peculiar game.
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Traczyk’s sonic concrete mixer
Traczyk strips the bass from its lyricism; instead of looking for melodies and pleasant sounds, he opts for the heaviness. Here he is drawling out sounds and trying to tame the mighty-sounding wooden giant.
The Magnificent 7: gqom, a winter soundtrack & Polish retromania
From Durban’s GQOM, through an acid-fuelled soundtrack to winter, to Polish retromania from the 90s. – I’ve compiled a selection of music that is danceable, fun, and many more things to boot.
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
The Magnificent 7: recreational and revolutionary jazz
Pleasant, casual meetings usually bring the best results. But sometimes things can go a bit revolutionary too. Here are the most interesting jazz and jazz-like albums of the last weeks and the start of a new series: The Magnificent 7.
Cuarentena Fest: Spain shows us how it’s done
The Spanish indie scene came together with lightning speed to organise the first DIY festival online. As a result, we got the best showcase of music from Spain in years.
Exploding guitar
“Rastilho” is a personal comment on the contemporary world, the simplest possible gesture: reaching for an instrument, playing, and looking towards the samba tradition to make a contemporary statement about Brazil under Bolsonaro’s rule.
Horse Lords set common task
Throughout forty minutes, Horse Lords combines microtonal harmonies, polyrhythms, minimalism, mathematical structures, dance potential and an algorithmic approach that sometimes reminds me of the Orange Milk roster.