Dominik Strycharski - Apogeum (2024) Hi-Res

They met in 2019 in the Plakaton music store in Warsaw and quickly decided that they wanted to record something together. On the one hand, Grzegorz Tarwid, a pianist and musician involved in various jazz bands and projects (such as Sundial Trio), who likes improvisation and is open to sound experiments. On the other - Dominik Strycharski, flautist, performer, creator with an avant-gardist temperament, taking part in various musical ventures (such as the Pulsarus band), tirelessly expanding the scope of the term "improvisation".

The album Apogeum is the fruit of their artistic cooperation, the nature and effects of which are described by Grzegorz Tarwid as follows: From the beginning it was known that we would play acoustically and electronically alternately. We had several attempts at recording, but it was only the third session that became decisive and then we felt that our sound and style had gained some maturity. And because we always improvise without a set starting point, we don't have the feeling of moving along paths that are already worn and worn out. On the other hand, we are aware of certain trends present in today's "avant-garde" and sometimes we can fit into them. But in the end, there is always that element of surprise, so that our creation together never becomes predictable.

Recorded on the so-called hundred, without any overdubs or overdubs, the album is a highly intriguing conglomerate of acoustic sounds and experimental electronics, for which Dominik Strycharski is responsible. In acoustic songs, improvised piano parts meet with flute sounds of various colors, exuding an aura of complete unpredictability. The musicians constantly take side paths, wander between completely subtle tones and atonal neurosis. However, where electronic gratings, noises, repetitions and drones come to the fore, the music tends towards the noise avant-garde, although it always provides the listener with appropriate space and dynamic diversity: from almost industrial sounds to trance fragments, where even bold vocal experiments appear. . Without a doubt, the sounds of Apogeum will appeal to all those who are particularly close to the spirit of restless searching.