JACASZEK - author and producer of electroacoustic music, combinig electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments. "My music is an ambitious plan:
I want to create my own, personal and recognizable musical language, in which electronic manipulation of recorded sound is going to enrich traditional acoustic instruments. The motivation of these experiments is discovering the hidden and universal beauty.
DISCOGRAPHY/PROJECTS
Jacaszek/Milka , "MAPA". (OFFMUSIC Rec 2001)
Jacaszek "LEM konzept"
Jacaszek "Lo-Fi Stories " (GUSSTAFF REC.2004)
Jacaszek/Milka "SEQUEL" (GUSSTAFF Rec 2006).
Wesolowski/Jacaszek "Kompleta" 2006
Jacaszek "TRENY" (MIASMAH/GUSSTAFF 2008)
Boomkat review:
Marsen Jules, Arvo Part, Zbigniew Preisner's soundtrack work for Krzysztof Kieslowski, Deaf Center, Max Richter, Erik Satie, Alberto Iglesias - if you are familiar and in awe of any or all of these names then this latest album on the exceptional Miasmah label will no doubt end up on your essential listening pile for the foreseeable future. Jacaszek has managed with "Treny" to assemble an album so heart-stoppingly beautiful and personal that we've been stunned into silence for its entire 55 minute duration. With string arrangements provided courtesy of Stefan Wesolowski, the foundations of the album are set with Cello and Violin painting fragile outlines coloured by subtle electronic manipulations, harp, piano and reduced, haunting operatic voices. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Michael Jacaszek doesn't make use of any samples, with everything on the album assembled by the musicians on hand (notably Maja Sieminska, Anja Smiszek-Wesolowska and Wesolowski and Jcaszek themselves) - and the subtle grandeur of the album is almost impossible to take in over one sitting, even if the impact is absolutely immediate. This is the kind of album that you just cannot believe a bijou imprint like Miasmah is able to lay its hands on - such is the scale of its success that it feels like a hugely important piece of work, far outweighing almost anything else we've heard in the modern classical field these last eighteen months. Cinematic without ever feeling contrived, "Treny" is surely one of the most impressive, mystical and astonishing albums of the year - we just cannot imagine that anyone listening to it will fail to be utterly bowled over and taken in - listen to the previews and you'll get an idea of just what we mean. Deaf Center's Miasmah label has slowly and carefully assembled a life-changing catalogue of releases designed to enrich and expand our musical horizons, and with "Treny" they have just delivered their most complete and compelling musical statement to date. We absolutely implore you to check this album out, one of the year's most important releases thus far. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.
W sierpniu tego roku został nagrany debiutancki album grupy Małe Instrumenty, unikalnego w skali kraju projektu muzycznego, używającego do grania muzyki niewielkich rozmiarem instrumentów, grających zabawek i przedmiotów dźwiękowych. Album zawiera utwory autorstwa Juliana Józefa Antonisza – jednego z najbardziej intrygujących reżyserów filmów animowanych. Odkrywana przez kolejne pokolenia twórczość Antonisza przypomina, że był on nie tylko nowatorskim reżyserem, wynalazcą, konstruktorem, plastykiem i filozofem – ale również muzykiem i kompozytorem.
Muzyka, którą można będzie usłyszeć na płycie, to jedenaście kompozycji pochodzących z filmów (powstałych w latach 1967-87) w nowych interpretacjach przygotowanych przez Małe Instrumenty. Przygotowane wersje utworów zostały oparte na oryginalnych zapisach nutowych, choć nie należy się po nich spodziewać tylko wierności oryginałom. Doświadczenia muzyczne wykonawców, specyfika instrumentalna zespołu i sposób nagrania dźwięku (zrealizowanego w obuszym studiu Rogalów Analogowy) dały ciekawy rezultat, który polecamy wszystkim słuchaczom.
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
EVENTS' PROGRAM @ KÜNSTLERHAUS STUTTGART
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5. November 2009, 15 Uhr
Michael Parsons: "Walk" performance somewhere in the city (precise informations will come later)
5. November 2009, 19 Uhr
Keith Rowe: Konzert und Gespräch / at the gallery
7. November 2009, 19 Uhr
The Great Learning - Paragraph 7, Dirigent: Jean-Jacques Palix / at the gallery
Ekkehard Ehlers: "Innocence" Konzert / at the gallery
Video and music by Maciej Wojcieszkiewicz ( STENDEK ) http://www.myspace.com/stendekk For CONTACT please use the following email: stendek@wp.pl Special thanks for Prof.Jerzy Krechowicz,Maciej Szupica,Adam Witkowski