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Sound Around Festival CD / curated by.Łukasz Szałankiewicz :

IN PROGRESS :

Laznia CCA and In Progress present the second In Progress album. CD includes recordings of artists that performed in Laznia CCA within In Progress project.Most of the recordings were registered in Laznia CCA during live shows.Curated by. Łukasz Szałankiewicz

Compilation V/ A – IN PROGRESS 3 

partly curated by. Łukasz Szałankiewicz

1. Rutger Zuydervelt – Stay Tuned Łaźnia
2. TER – Unlock
3. K.Justka/Electr°cute – Live Excerpt
4. René Margraff – Uno
5. Ak Uki – Poprzednie
6. Hélène Breschand – Voices in the Gdańsk Wind
7. Mytrip – Chest Pain*
8. Mammoth Ulthana – Hybrid
9. Mothertape – Problem 4
10. Job Karma – Trees
11. Fabio Orsi – The White Wondering*
12. Olga Szymula – Rzeka zbiegająca się z inną
13. Mirt – XXXVII
14. Rongwrong – Śpiący młyn

Compilation V/A – IN PROGRESS 2

In Progress ( compilation) vol I CD (2010, CSW ŁAŹNIA Poland ) :

curated by. Łukasz Szałankiewicz

TRACK LIST:
01.    Nemezis : „MUSIQUE DE FILM”
02.    Franz Pomassl: „Algava Galvanik”
03.    Jørgen Knudsen: „Exploding head”
04.    Antanas Jasenka: „ Run Scanner”
05.    Pink Twins: „Cloak”
06.    Martin Küchen: „The Testimony of  Marie Neumann       (for Alfred Maurice De Zayas)”
07.    Anna Zaradny: “NEW feat OLD”
08.    Carl Micheal von Hausswolff: “Walker”
09.    Colin Potter: “Hearth”
10.    Prawatt: “Last train to Tatarstan”
11.    Simon Finn: “Jerusalem”

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review from SKUG magazine

DISC0 DISC0

DISC0 DISC0 compilation series : A compilation featuring a wide variety of experimental work. The CDR is crammed to almost 80 minutes and the sound ranges from minimalism to droning and fragments of noise. Material that will expand the reaches of your (sub)consciousness. Curated by Zenial

disc0 disc0 vol. I : / Hum rec. PL & Nl

1. 1. Mark Bromwich : Underwater (Uk)
   2. Geoff Nossiter : Solar flares (Uk)
   3. Information: This low-rise city (No)
   4. Carey Nutman : Resurrection ? (Uk)
   5. Palsecam : I=B000-B7FF (Pl)
   6. Artur Lason : Sample number 14 (Pl)
   7. Vidna Obmana : Dislocation (Be)
   8. PBK : Orgin mode (v.2) geologic profile (Us)
   9. Tetsuo Furudate : Live at Barcelona (Jp)
   10. Koji Asano : Mizo (Jp)
   11. Jullien Ottavi : Mpff (for voice & frequncies) (Fr)
   12. Yoko Sato & Bryan Day : Hot spar down the (Jp & Us)
   13. Minetic Fake : SDaa2 (Fr)

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disc0 disc0 vol.II / Absinth rec. (Pl)

1. 1. Steve Roach ” Nothing ” (Us)
   2. Andrew Lagowski ” Cuevas ” (Uk)
   3. Surparadial ” Astramofonia (Deep Space City – Alien Phong) ” (Pl)
   4. Sunao Inami ” Eel ” (Jp)
   5. Minoru Yonemoto ” Cold Sleep ” (Jp)
   6. Stephen T.Pope ” Sensing / Speaking space : part 1 & part2 ” (Us)
   7. Helmut Schäfer ” Seeker ” (At)
   8. Marek Choloniewski ” No title : track nr.6 ” (Pl)
   9. Zbigniew Karkowski ” Local Piority ” (Pl/Jp)
   10. Randy H.Y.Yau ” Praesagire 2 ” (Us)
   11. Diagonale Stable ” 10 high ” (Fr)
   12. Hideko Kawamoto ” Stroke of a Wing ” (Jp)
   13. Günter Schroth ” Datensta ” (De)
   14. Andrzej Izdebski & Tadeusz Sudnik ” Session 27.02.2000 short ver ” (Pl)
   15. Roel Meelkop ” Pss – short version ” (Nl)
   16. Andrzej D.Dudek & Lukasz Sza³ankiewicz ” 2 stylistics ” (Pl)

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review :

“Disco, Disco” is a series of compilations featuring artists who Zenial, the leader of Palsecam collective and a person active in the Polish scene of electronica, has collaborated or just been in touch with. Both the stylistic diversity and the volume (almost 80 minutes of playing time) are substantial, but since most of the contributions are relatively easily accessible, the whole affair can be “consumed” at a single go. Things kick off with the background music – Mark Bromwich, Geoff Nossiter present meditative soundscapes; Information, Carey Nutman, Palsecam bring exploratory actions in the realm of ambitious electronica, not very different from that initial dose of the ambient music. Both Artur Lason and Vidna Obmana don’t seem likely to abandon the course they once assumed. That of the former is ambient with distinctive new age and meditation music streaks whereas that of the latter is a marriage of ethno and ambient. PBK’s piece marks the beginning of the most interesting part of the record – the Americans make dunes of raucous noise ambient only to smoothly switch to a quite peaceful sound work. Tetsuo Furudate successfully manages to evade any stylistic labelling – a short excerpt from his performing in Barcelona is a blend of orchestral sound, frenzied vocals and sonic vagueness. Very captivating but very short too. Koji Asano presents a cascading composition based on looped sounds off the border between noise and ambient and that leads us to the end of the record, totally opposite its ambient music beginning – noise. Made by Yoko Sato and Bryan Day it acquires a new quality; owing to the vibes and reverb this guitar noise feels spacey and multi-dimensional. One more artist to round the set off, Minetic Field and his serially induced sine waves and bits don’t match the rest of the set and that may be the reason for putting them at the very end.

The second volume of this series seems the best compilation coming from Poland I’ve ever heard. The circle of Zenial’s connections expands. For the purpose of this review I parceled out this edition into a few blocks of artists. I was most curious about the one of Polish contingent: Surparadial – a total enigma to me, very impressive dark ambient; Marek Choloniewski made an interesting piece for modulated voice and grating electronica; Zbigniew Karkowski surprises with gyrating, droning streams of sonics and volume setting manipulations; Andrzej Izdebski & Tadeusz Sudnik present an audio collage on bass guitar and electronica. The Polish set is rounded out with a collaborative piece by Zenial and Andrzej D.Dudek, a surprising (considering the release’s general character), relaxing piece, not much unlike things from Biosphere, Alio Die or Steve Roach. A propos, it’s Roach’s and Andrew Lagowski’s tracks that open “Disco, Disco”, thus securing to the signal victory of the ambient music over other genres presented in this set. However, it wasn’t them (though they are undeniably good at what they do) who made for the strength of the ambient faction – the words are praise are particularly due to lesser known acts like Surparadial and the new wave of Japanese dark ambient: Sunao Inami, Minoru Yonemoto, Hideko Kawamoto. From among the rest, I’d pick up Roel Meelop for delicate, ionizing minimal noise and Günter Schroth for a surprisingly interesting rendition of music based on bar codes decoding – it’s digestible in a short piece like that). An interesting set that guarantees a good deal of rewarding sonics. KRZYSZTOF SADZA / Erp magazin