notes and memories

 

The first motivation to create this project was the idea of ​​Kuba Krzeszowski to set up a mini-label, Jazz Po Polsku. For something like that to happen -

a premiere album was needed. We have worked with Kuba in previous years during MM3 tours, so anyway we were in constant contact with each other.

For some time I have been interested in long forms combining ambient and narrative elements. I felt the need to record such experimental material as an album. Our paths quickly joined together.

 

During the first brainstorming session, Kuba mentioned that the Year of Lem is now being celebrated. On this occasion, a new translation of The Cyberiad by Mao Rui was published in China.

All the dots have come together! Kuba's great experience on the Chinese market and its consistency in contacts with Polish cultural institutions meant that at the end of the year I was able to start my creative work. The project received funding from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and media support from Guo Mai, a huge Chinese publishing house. It has been a long and very difficult road, especially in terms of bureaucracy, logistics and general organization. But Kuba made it! And the details would be best told by himself...
 

I started my process with a "deep reading" of The Cyberiad. I read the fantastic stories about Trurl and Klapaucius with great attention and… with a pencil in my hand. I marked all the interesting phrases that resonated within me, that seemed interesting.

From the very beginning, I planned to treat Lem's literature as a starting point for creating a spoken word and music collage. I didn't want to record an audiobook. I also didn't want to focus on too long narrative fragments. The form I wanted to make was to be an audio drama. Inspired by Lem, but also a self-sufficient and very surreal piece.