The first batch of artists set to appear at this year’s Unsound Festival in Krakow, Poland, have been announced. Chicago footwork pioneer RP Boo, gloomy Blackest Ever Black singing Tropic of Cancer and drone metal band Earth will be appearing under the theme ‘Interference’ for the event, running October 13 to 20. We’re especially excited about young and intense Brooklyn-based noise artist Pharmakon who releases an album, Abandon, on Sacred Bones, June 10, as well as Stellar Om Source. As reported earlier, the latter Christelle Gualdi’s break from the signature weird ambience Joy One Mile drops that same day. See full line-up below.**
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Sangoplasmo tour @ Lovekrove & Radar Gallery, Krakow, reviewed.
Kraków was the first stop on a lengthy tour under the Sangoplasmo tour banner: “A month on the train, daily”, confided the slightly-overwhelmed Piotr Kurek, who I spoke to prior to his performance. Both he and Lutto Lento, fellow traveller and Sangoplasmo label owner, are gaining momentum after an already-fertile period. Kurek’s latest release, the inventive Edena, was very well received, while Lento – a former post-industrial prankster turned established tape underground curator – enjoyed a positive reception for Duch Gór, his first cassette under this moniker.
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When it comes to his concept of time and eclecticism, Piotr Kurek is all over the place. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for vintage sound equipment, as well as the practical sense to know where their limitations are, his musical compositions –part melodic narrative, part sound collage –distil a sense of nostalgia into a romance for the present. Using a Moebius comic he had never seen (Le Monde d’Edena) and an instrument he would never have (a Mellotron) as a conceptual starting point, the Warsaw-based, Polish artist presents Edena, out on Wroclaw label Sangoplasmo.
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