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This is a record released by Unsound in November 2023 by Piotr Kurek, an experimental musician from Warsaw, Poland who has released records on Cronica and Digitalis in the past.Contains seven computer-generated experimental ambient jazz pieces. *If you would like a digital sound source, please feel free to contact us.The previous work is also recommended. "Piotr Kurek's new album 'Smartwoods' is a vast root system in which small melodic phrases loop and wrap around a thicket of subtly evolving instrumentals. The Warsaw-based producer and composer , takes its cues from early music, baroque music, and experimental jazz, intertwines those influences with modern computer music, and fuels it with sonic vapors from the near future.The album is organized into seven distinct segments. blurs the acoustic and electronic elements, creating a fantastical fence of abstract sound: harp, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, voice, and guitar twist into computer processing and synthesizer chirps to create a dreamlike veneer of abstract sound. creates an eerie dream world that isn't always what it seems, with each player intertwining with the others to create a living whole, similar to Piotr Kurek's painterly 11 album World Speaks. , Smartwoods is also inspired by visual art, particularly the whimsical work of Algerian-French graphic designer Jean Sariano.The album cover features artwork by Polish painter Tomasz Kowalski. Its protean creatures and miniature stories accurately reflect the wild fantasy of music.In 7, a live show at Krakow's Unsound will feature Italian artist Francesco Marello's Animation was featured." ---------------------------------- Ask us for digital...

This is a record released in 2018 by experimental musician Marcin Barski from Krakow, Poland, on Reading Group, an experimental label based in New York, USA.Contains 4 songs from spoken word to noise drone. DL code included.Below is an explanation by the author himself. "The 1980s were special. Microphones became commonplace in many homes. Audio recording was no longer a novelty; everyone could do it. The portable Walkman, the analogue answering machine, the tape player that was always equipped with a red button and a little hole to talk to in order to archive your voice - all these things were everywhere and everyone knew how to use them. The tapes were cheap, and many have survived to this day.The theme of disappointment is a recurring theme in these tapes: a jammed Radio Free Europe broadcast many years ago. The vulgar sexist cabaret that is no longer funny (if it is funny at all), and most of all, the new taxes, the difficulties of everyday life, or the frustration with the telephone system and the hours spent on the phone before speaking to relatives abroad. It is not uncommon for tape recordings of Father Popielszko's truth sermons to be disguised as modern talking cassettes with track lists handwritten on red and white inlay cards. .In the illegal underground circuits of the 1980s, vision functioned as a mask for hearing.The Polish soundscape of that time was happening at the level of the imagination: things you had never seen, things you had never met before. People recorded and shared on tape recordings of people's voices and music that could not be experienced at concerts.Hearing shaped their longing for sight. He had the power to change a reality that was too gray to escape.The other day, I found a box of tapes containing recorded telephone conversations from 1982 to 1984. , recorded all his phone conversations. His wife was living in Vienna at the time and sent him Western products to distribute to friends in Warsaw. But he was also a romantic man. The title of the tape taped to the bottom of the box (in pencil handwriting) is ``Wanda's Dream, May 1982.'' It's a quiet, eight-minute recording of someone snoring. Jan listens back to his wife's breathing. Have you ever fallen asleep listening to this tape in your gray communist apartment in Warsaw after both channels had finished broadcasting? Have you ever tried to imagine what your bedroom would sound like, smell like, and look like?Once again, the disappointment is repeated.In a sense, Jan was living a polygamous life.Both are invisible, but which one is real? " Click here to see more Reading Group releases...

This is a record released by Derek Baron, an American/NY experimental musician who has released records in the past on labels such as Recital and Pentiments, from his own label Reading Group in 2018. This is a record of a canoe trip with his parents, recorded in September 2016 on a lake called Boundary Waters near the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota.Contains two audio self-documentaries, approximately 9 minutes long. DL code included. Reading Group · Derek Baron, "Sagard's History of Canada"...

This is a collaborative record by British poet Zara Joan Miller and cellist Ute Kanngießer, released in December 2023 on the experimental label Reading Group in New York, USA.Contains two tense improvisational songs, one for sound poetry and one for cello. DL code included.Click here to see more Reading Group releases available...