SIWEK / KARSKI: Instructions how to get here [ANG CD42/2024] by Antenna Non Grata
It's a premiere day at Antenna Non Grata today! And what a mighty premiere it is!
A collaborative work of Jędrzej Siwek and Oskar Karski '' Instructions how to get here''.
A digital and a cd release as always beautifully released and curated by Antenna Non Grata.
I must say it is so far my favourite of their outing.
Imagine an illustrative piece of music that has so many colours and hues and it feels like a clear cut narrative.
Eight tracks that combine not only different moods but also a very effortless sway of different compositional techniques.
There are reeds here, there's a glitchy melancholic experimental background but most of all there is a tasteful skill to combine all those elements in one. It feels more like a studious analysis of some phenomena like magnetism of anything that makes you feel like you are part of something larger than yourself, larger than life. Yet, having all those elements that a tender, deep piece of music that invites you to a self-reflection, should have.
With a cluster of kaleidoscope, stained glass-like compositions, I was afraid that there will be some sort of pomposity bias but there's nothing of that sort energy here.
A duo has always been a great idea when it comes to composing an experimental music that has its edges strung across different classifications and genres and it works perfectly here between Siwek and Karski.
I just hope they will continue collaborating, touching different tissues of musical matter.
Bios of the musicians:
Jędrzej Siwek. Sound artist, composer, educator. Tells stories through sound. Author of
contemporary, electronic, and electroacoustic music. He runs a series of workshops
called Experiment! Practical meetings with sound. Author of a new interpretation of
Claude Debussy's La Mer, the post-classical Requiem or the diptych Music for Sci-fi
Movies. Also a live music artist. Performed with the original program during Sacrum
Profanum, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Katowice JazzArt Festival or Mózg Festival.
Oskar Karski. Inspired mostly by biological processes taking place on Earth and by
natural phenomena occurring in remote corners of universe, he intends to create
musical situations that go beyond what is audible, venturing to the edges and crevices of
reality.
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