Stara Rzeka
Stara Rzeka
Infinite Greyscale
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2014
Includes Instant Download
10” (dark green)
19.99
IGR05V / Includes Download Code
Edition of 300 copies, dark green vinyl, single-sided, silkscreened b-side, incl. numbered insert and photograph
Incl. VAT plus shipping / Orders from outside the EU are exempt from VAT
Tracklist
1Stara Rzeka 10:00

Infinite Greyscale presents a new long-form composition by Stara Rzeka. The Polish village of Stara Rzeka and its surrounding countryside were devastated by a huge tornado on the 14th of July 2012. Stara Rzeka is where musician Kuba Ziolek, who adopted the name as one of several artistic projects, spends his summers, and the morning following the storm Ziolek was present to witness the aftermath.

This self-titled piece opens to the crackle of electricity in the air and a distinct impression of menace. The distortion softens, but never truly fades, as it gives way to song; a graceful and melancholy ode to what nature has been divested of in the storm. Eventually this human presence, like the tornado, departs to leave the composition sounding like the land itself; wounded but brimming with life, buzzing and psychedelic.

The fact that the artist, music, and location all exist under one heading suggests that these elements are interdependent and inseparable. This is music as elegiac at it is sanguine, at perpetual as it is fixed in time, and here Stara Rzeka is all of those things.