notes and memories

 

The summer of 2019 was the time of my intensive artistic explorations. It was then that I started working with Ableton Live on a regular basis and creating composition drafts on it. And although ambient was "my thing" a long time before, the ability to create electronic textures allowed me to spread my wings. A separate topic was my fascination with field recordings. Although I've been doing them for years on many occasions, from around 2019 I started recording my surroundings more and more. I documented places, events, people, everything.

 

Two weeks spent in London were a great time for me - then I combined "ordinary" tourism with what

I would call "sonic tourism". Recording London was

a great experience for me. I was especially interested in the sound of the London Underground. I was able to record several long rides on different routes. To this day, I like them very much - they are the first important documentation of my love for urban aesthetics and cities as phenomena.

Those recordings ended up in my archives for almost a whole year.

 

The concept of EP album Next Station appeared in my head during the hard lockdown in 2020.

Not being able to tour and play rehearsals regularly, I started working very intensively on my own experimental and ambient projects. I was creating new ideas almost compulsively. Well, everyone dealt with that time in their own very individual way.

At one point in the creative process,

I noticed that what I was most interested in was combining my guitar playing with the new possibilities that Ableton gave me. That's why I was able to find my own musical language - thanks to the combination of digital and analog aesthetics.

Guitar loops recorded on several tracks and combined with each other (often in

a random way) brought a specific relief and repetitiveness in the style of Brian Eno, which seemed to be a great creative achievement.

 

I prepared 4 projects - each of them consisted of several guitar tracks. The final creative process was that I was recording arrangements of previously recorded live loops - reacting with music to London recordings (which I dug up at the time from the archives). This is how 4 compositions, which are my London sound postcards, were created. The nobility and sonic space was given to them by Marcin Cichy,

who mixed and mastered them.