Polish experimental composer Stefan Wesołowski at present launched his new album Track of the Evening Mists through Unprecedented 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 gradual construct, and crackling and straining sound results, the track resembles the sound of earth groaning into life in a creation delusion. The “Core” video matches the track’s atmospherics with dreamlike exploration. The administrators clarify:
“In our idea, we mix the theme of nature vs the human factor contained by the artist within the music with the Japanese idea of inemuri (a brief nap taken in a public place). We’re inquisitive about a consideration of human presence in a world that emanates fixed improvement, momentum and motion–symbolized by a big, multi-layered metropolis.
We have a look at the parallel tales of 5 characters–individuals from totally different walks of life: an workplace employee, a avenue mime, a girl from excessive society, a standard woman, and a younger boy. In every case, we start the cinematic commentary from their nap in a public place. Their visible buildings and the heart beat of town represent the background for the choreographic exploration of sleep–a state that seemingly appears not possible 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 Evening 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 traditional synthesizers, such because the Roland Jupiter-8, a Roland House Echo RE-150 tape delay, and the Soviet Polivoks. We additionally hear the basilica’s organ and subject recordings from the Tatra Mountains positioned on the border of Slovakia and Poland. Different musicians have been Maja Miro, who performed the flute components on “Glacial Troughs” and his brother Piotr Wesołowski, who performed the organ on “Wilhelm Tombeau.” The LP was engineered by Marcin Nenko, who was 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 position. These are subject 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 possibly can 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 stunning, and had that 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 thought 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 hear 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 observe. Wesołowski admits that Track of the Evening Mists is born of the all too human technique of temptation, doubt and recalibration–Sebaldian overlaps and coincidences forming one thing that should reside one other life, away from its creator. In Wesołowski’s phrases, the album is “a new child foal should arise and stroll proper after start.” Now it’s yours to ponder.