Jacaszek - Glimmer

Artist: Jacaszek
Album: Glimmer
Genre: Ambient, Electronic, Shoegaze
Label: Ghostly International, Gusstaff Records, Miasmah Records
Year: 2011
From : Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland

Tracklist
01. Goldengrove
02. Dare-gale
03. Pod Światło
04. Evening Strains To Be Time's Vast
05. Seiden Stille
06. What Wind-Walks Up Above!
07. Only Not Within Seeing Of The Sun
08. As Each Tucked String Tells
09. Windhover

For the past decade or so, Polish musician Michal Jacaszek has been exploring a new, resolutely modern chapter in Eastern Europe’s long, storied love affair with classical music. His creations are painstakingly crafted collages of electronic textures and baroque instrumentation, harpsichords being swarmed by woolly static one minute and pulled apart by billowing wind the next. Ambient music—if we can generalize unnecessarily for a second—is rarely so sonically challenging.

Jacaszek’s latest album, Glimmer, is marked by a noticeable tug between melancholy and beauty, like it’s hovering in some gaseous grey area between both, at once both insular and extroverted. “I tried again to create some fragile beauty glimmering behind the veil of reality,” he says. “I built a kind of curtain out of dirts and fuzzes, and used pure sound of clarinet and harpsichord playing beautiful melodies as a contrast to its harshness.” This winking, push-and-pull tension runs deep and constant throughout the 40-odd-minute journey to the end.

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