Lotto - Hours After (2020)

The Warsaw/Berlin trio LOTTO (Mike Majkowski, Paweł Szpura, Łukasz Rychlicki) carve their story for the fourth time. Their music, derived from free improvisation, always evolves into unknown directions. Such is also the case this time round. The band offers us four integral stories, stories without words, but with a clear imprint of the times and the reality around us.

Hours After was created in a small house in Warsaw's Jazdów, called Ladom (collectively run by the now defunct LADO ABC label, for which LOTTO recorded their debut LP). The band consciously moved away from recording in a professional studio, emphasizing intimacy, and escaping the rush and pressure of the studio clock. The trio decided to leave everything in their own hands, keeping everything in their control.

In the recorded songs you can feel an increasingly strange atmosphere of the surrounding reality. The stuffy, mysterious, disturbing aura that guides us through the song LIS evokes a feeling of nostalgia, as if after losing something undefined. It is like wandering through an empty pandemic city at night...