Reorg by Bartek Kalinka
Calling Bartek Kalinka ''a veteran'' would be both an understatement and something really tricky. He has been active in variety of projects, genres and idioms that trying to define it is somewhat an impossible task. Apart from that he has been modifying, re-aligning, re-defining his own approach so many times that you should rather congratulate him on having a fresh and young mind of someone who never stays still and always finds something new and interesting to work on.
I was really glad to see a new release since he has had a short hiatus in terms of recording stuff solo. He has been active in collabs and live sets ever since but hey this is good news.
A set of seven tracks which I feel is good and great enough to dig in.
Reorg is an amalgam of different types of noise music - be it experimental noise, harsh noise and a bit of HNW (harsh noise wall) but as it is with Bartek nothing is ever a straight line - it is always a constant exploration and modification of something that was before.
This album is setting on fire all the little layers and labels that you normally receive when an album is classified with noise. There is much depth to it as the tracks remind me more of an electroacoustic heavy duty improvisation. The layering of each track is dense and filled with all sorts of synth squelches and modulations. There are some surprising elements in this puzzle - listen to Blue Shadow Season. It sounds more like musique concrete with modular synth and noise.
A successful comeback so to speak. Hopefully Bartek won't take a long break before the next release.
Recorded April-August 2025
credits
released December 10, 2025
mastering by Joel Shanahan
Bartek Kalinka is a Warsaw-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. After years of playing mostly synths he switched back to harsh noise for which he was
previously known, playing it as XV Parówek, experimental noise unit active since the 90s
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