Wrong Filament by Robert Piotrowicz

 

Robert Piotrowicz is one of those quite underrated legends who have been busy ever since 90's creating within different modals, genres and slowly chiselling his way towards exemplifying and embodying his own values as a modern composer and artist in a wide spectrum of this term's meaning.

He is coming back with "Wrong Filament" which is beautifully designed and released as a vinyl record.

The contents of this album is way beyond the cliches of modern electroacoustic experimental label. 

First and foremost it has a solid rhythmical base which is somewhat puzzling - when trying to decipher and decode it - it has so much either from central and eastern European music, through repetition it reminds me of gamelan, some forms of Vietnamese music or even Filipino rhythmical encounters, it leads you even to some sorts of IDM but... Robert transfers all his compositions quite beyond all the nuances and possible associations - he doesn't reconstruct anything - instead he is creating something fresh.

"Wrong Filament" has this almost theatrical aspect of what ancient Greeks called 'pathos' - an elevation of different elements of the tragedy towards diluting its all elements so any listener can find its own way to understanding it. The modular frequencies of the electronics with a tense atmosphere - a theatre that could change its context easily but never the most crucial aspects and meanings it conveys. 

An ambitious album with music that is definitely worth analysing and coming back to.,,

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