Label: Emotional Response
Catalog#: ERS040
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2018
A1 I
A2 II
A3 III
A4 IV
A5 V
A6 VI
A7 VII
B1 VIII
B2 IX
B3 X
B4 XI
B5 XII
B6 XIII
B7 XIV
B8 XV
Earth TraxやPejzażの名義でディープハウス作品をコンスタントにリリースする一方で、「Baltic Beat」以降は影を潜めていたBartosz Kruczyński（バルトシュ・クルシェンスキ）のクワイエット・サイド。実際は、この数年間ポーランドの国営テレビ局Telewizja Polska SAの芸術・映画・文化専門チャンネルTVP Kulturaのサウンド・デザインに従事していたといい、そのコラボレイティヴ・ワークスの中から選ばれた15曲が、英Emotional Responseから新作アルバムとしてリリースされることがアナウンスされています。レーベルによると、これらの曲はフリー・アーティスティック・ライセンスのもとで管理され、これまでMagdalena Abakanowicz（マグダレーナ・アバカノヴィッチ）、Miroslaw Balka（ミロスワフ・バウカ）、Tadeusz Kantor（タデウシュ・カンター）、Enrico Prampolini（エンリコ・プランポリーニ）、Ai Weiwei（アイ・ウェイウェイ）、Monica Bonvicini（モニカ・ボンヴィチーニ）といった国内外の現代美術家のためのプログラミングに採用されたとのこと。「Baltic Beat」や「Schleißen 2」にも通じる木管楽器アレンジによるミニマル・ミュージックから、第四世界音楽、アトモスフェリックなダブテクノまで、彼がメディアの裏方として手掛けてきたアンビエント・ワークスの集成としてとても楽しみな一枚です。リリース予定日は11月26日。
Emotional Response is delighted to present a special project, a collection of music from Bartosz Kruczynski, recorded for "Selected Media" and presented here as a time-piece of his continuing works. Initially known as one half of sample based project Ptaki (The Very Polish Cut Outs / Transatlantyk), Kruczynski first appeared for Emotional Response as The Phantom for the first series of SchleiBen in 2015. Featuring two works of deep 'fourth world' sounds, they highlighted a shift to more mellow, synthetic and hazy compositions. His break out came, however, when he explored this sound further on his eponymous album Baltic Beat, for the acclaimed Growing Bin Records. This has been augmented with the recent club based music as one half of the wonderful Earth Trax (Rhythm Section International / Phonica Records) project. Here though, Kruczynski returns to the ambient and ethereal - plus a touch of dub techno - to showcase his expansive collaborative work with Polish studio, TVP Culture. Given free artistic license, the 15 'short form' recordings included here were for programming, in the main, on modern Polish Art including the likes of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Miroslaw Balka and Tadeusz Kantor, as well as some international aspects for Enrico Prampolini, Ai Weiwei and Monica Bonvicini. Taken from over 70 episodes the material included recollects imagery, video and memory to present a series of short vignettes that together create one whole. Minimal and hazy ambience (V, VII, VIII, XI, XII) envisages classic melodies and chords and is accompanied by further 'fourth world' pieces (I, II, III, VII, X) that present an oeuvre that is recognisably the music of Kruczynski, while remaining fresh and perfectly meditative. A counter can be found in the atmospheric dub works (IV, IX, XIV) that hint at echo chamber environs to get infinitely lost in. As an album then, "Selected Media" can be heard as a snapshot to Kruczynski's music journey, a meeting of art and music that is oft overlooked but very much essential.
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