Marek Styczyński

2007 release ** "Marek Styczyński uses technical achievements to create folk, ethnic music of various kinds - both in recording "in the field", in the studio, and in computer processing. He effectively transfers the world forgotten and rejected by pop culture into the digital sphere, processing it a lot. He writes: "I used sounds as the initial building block for designing sound environments and I completely processed some of them, moving them significantly away from the original". He uses many means to build his musical world: commonly known (voice, didjeridu, sitar, guitar) and self-made instruments, field recordings, fragments of earlier recordings of Karpaty Magiczne and specially written programs. Although each of the pieces is from a completely different parish and I feel that Styczyński has at least eight incarnations (plus one free one), this diversity is a damn great asset. One after another we hear the rhythmic "Carpathians Sun Totem", irritating and annoying like mosquitoes by the river, "Mother Vak" ringing like an alarm clock in the morning, a pop-guitar-sitar tune from the radio with Nacher singing, and "Sonic Totem" reminding me at first of my favorite recordings by Brian Eno and Jon Hassel."