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Bartosz Kruczyński - Dreams & Whispers LP NEW COLOR VINYL
BALMAT (UK)
Color vinyl version. Balmat has always been careful not to call itself an ambient label. But with this release, Balmat turns its ears -- proudly, blissfully -- to a strain of ambient at its most timeless. The appropriately titled Dreams & Whispers comes from Warsaw's Bartosz Kruczyński, who has recorded under a number of guises, Earth Trax, as well as his own name. Over the years, he's touched upon deep house, breakbeats, acid, techno, electro, IDM, and more; often, the throughline running through a given album is simply the refusal to remain in any one place for long -- well, that, and his unusually nuanced ear for harmony and texture. Those qualities come to the fore on Dreams & Whispers, which might be the most focused encapsulation of Kruczyński's atmospheric sensibilities to date. Across 14 stripped-down tracks for shimmer and pulse, Kruczyński evokes overlapping styles in ambient -- warm vibraphones, taut arps, massing strings, lonesome delay chains -- but always with his own twist. Fitting the album's title, the album is loosely divided into two distinct moods: The A-side, "Dreams," is charged with subtle movement, rhythms spreading out like rings around skipped stones, while the B-side, "Whispers," plunges into a zone of shadows and hush. The two complementary moods flow into one another like the faces of a Moebius strip, yielding an album that's intuitively shaped and rich in emotion.
Track Listing:
A1. Dream I
A2. Dream II
A3. Dream III
A4. Dream IV
A5. Dream V
A6. Dream VI
A7. Dream VII
B1. Whisper I
B2. Whisper II
B3. Whisper III
B4. Whisper IV
B5. Whisper V
B6. Whisper VI
B7. Whisper VII
Track Listing:
A1. Dream I
A2. Dream II
A3. Dream III
A4. Dream IV
A5. Dream V
A6. Dream VI
A7. Dream VII
B1. Whisper I
B2. Whisper II
B3. Whisper III
B4. Whisper IV
B5. Whisper V
B6. Whisper VI
B7. Whisper VII