R. IWANSKI - Transformations I by X-NAVI:ET
The newest album by X-NAVI:ET a.k.a Rafał Iwański is an musical expression of a mature artist. Quite unusually long for the demands of low-attention span that modern listeners have is a good challenge. It helped me to understand one very crucial aspect of his work but also contemporary music in general. And it is namely: how to put your ideas as an inception concept into someone's mind through the language of music. To put it more bluntly and simplistically - how can you feel more and deeper through music that has both psychoactive and intellectually-driven properties that take you far beyond the academia and far beyond the triviality of the underground music.
9 tracks on this album are a subtle study on electroacoustic properties of non-European or rather non-western musical instruments put into a frame of a post-industrial music context.
That is music poetry but when you take away all the world music triviality and add more crudeness to it - it is a study done with confidentiality of someone who found a different context of ethnic music, decades ago and now only adding up to his own experience, towards his own maturity and knowledge of both studio techniques and mastering the instruments.
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R. IWANSKI - Transformations I
CD by Gusstaff Records & Eter Records /// Release date: 10/02/2023
12" vinyl lim. 66 by Don't Sit On My Vinyl! /// Release date: 10/03/2023
Instrumentation: zanza, kalimba, zanzula, rattles, claves, spring tubes, small gongs, bells, metal objects, analog bass synthesizer (1, 5, 8, 9), effects (soma laboratory, electro harmonix, strymon, hard wire, boss, moog, dod)
Contact, dynamic and condenser microphones were used to capture the sound of acoustic instruments
Composed, recorded and mixed by Rafał Iwański at Studio Eter, Toruń, Poland, July - November 2022
Mastering: Szymon Szwarc | szszwarc.pl
Artwork and photo: Ewa Bińczyk | ewabinczyk.pl
Layout: Wojciech Zięba | info@beastofprey.com
Contact Rafał Iwański a.k.a. X-Navi:Et | itah@o2.pl
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