Polish experimental composer Stefan Wesołowski at present launched his new album Track of the Night time Mists by way of Exceptional Hope. Wesołowski additionally shared the surreal and cinematic new video for the album’s towering, five-minute opener “Core,” co-directed by Helena Ganjalyan & Bartosz Szpak. With its sluggish construct, and crackling and straining sound results, the music resembles the sound of earth groaning into life in a creation fantasy. The “Core” video matches the music’s atmospherics with dreamlike exploration. The administrators clarify:
“In our idea, we mix the theme of nature vs the human ingredient contained by the artist within the music with the Japanese idea of inemuri (a brief nap taken in a public place). We’re enthusiastic about a consideration of human presence in a world that emanates fixed growth, momentum and motion–symbolized by a big, multi-layered metropolis.
We have a look at the parallel tales of 5 characters–individuals from completely different walks of life: an workplace employee, a avenue mime, a girl from excessive society, a traditional lady, and a younger boy. In every case, we start the cinematic remark from their nap in a public place. Their visible buildings and the heartbeat of the town represent the background for the choreographic exploration of sleep–a state that seemingly appears unimaginable to interpret on this means, being perceived as immobile. Constructing a palette of actions, we attempt to search for issues stretched between suspension and momentum, pause and motion, between sleep and actuality.”
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Track of the Night time Mists–the final in a trilogy, following LPs Liebestod (2013) and Ceremony of the Finish (2017)– was recorded primarily by Wesołowski in two places: his Gdańsk, Poland studio and in Saint Nicholas’ Basilica in Amsterdam. The LP tracks incorporate acoustic devices (piano, organ, violin, double bass) and basic synthesizers, such because the Roland Jupiter-8, a Roland Area Echo RE-150 tape delay, and the Soviet Polivoks. We additionally hear the basilica’s organ and area recordings from the Tatra Mountains situated on the border of Slovakia and Poland. Different musicians have been Maja Miro, who performed the flute elements on “Glacial Troughs” and his brother Piotr Wesołowski, who performed the organ on “Wilhelm Tombeau.” The LP was engineered by Marcin Nenko, who was readily available to document the basilica organ, combined in New York by Al Carlson (Oneohtrix Level By no means, Jessica Pratt, Zola Jesus, and Liturgy), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri.
One other set of samples made by Wesołowski play one other function. These are area recordings, initially created for an audio illustration of the formation of the Tatra Mountains, and utilized in a movie by sound designer Michał Fojcik. “You’ll be able to hear cracking ice, streams, footsteps within the snow and the wind, and an actual avalanche, recorded from the within,” Wesołowski says. The “Tatra connection” on the album can be present in samples referencing composer Karol Szymanowski. The album’s title alludes to a poem concerning the mountains by Polish poet, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer.
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Wesołowski’s Tatra recordings are “a couple of world with out people – about the truth that the world existed, was lovely, and had which means lengthy earlier than individuals arrived, and for the overwhelming majority of its historical past, it was a spot with out us.” Wesołowski, utilizing one iteration of the pure world, performs out in sound Sebald’s concept of one other order, underlying the chaos of human relationships mendacity past human comprehension.
This can be a dramatic album, however it does really feel a surprisingly quick, or curtailed pay attention on ending, evoking the sensation one will get when waking from a dream, and, for all its incipient grandeur, a observe like “Stalagmite,” as an example, ends on a minor word. Wesołowski admits that Track of the Night time Mists is born of the all too human means of temptation, doubt and recalibration–Sebaldian overlaps and coincidences forming one thing that should stay one other life, away from its creator. In Wesołowski’s phrases, the album is “a new child foal should arise and stroll proper after delivery.” Now it’s yours to ponder.
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