Tomasz Bednarczyk, this Wroclaw, Poland-based musician and sound artist who his in his early twenties, has only been making electronic music since 2004. I remember his 2006 So Nice EP [AudioTong] consisting of four tracks of looped guitar ambiance, seductive melodies, and clicks and noises. Now 2008 brings Summer Feelings, an even more affecting album of soft crackle and melancholy sounds sculptured with piano, microsounds, field recordings, and synthesizers. Tracks like Vacation, Saturday Evening, and Sad Man on the Train will attest to this critique.
Containing eight evocatively titled songs, Summer Feelings conveys personal aural impressions of the summer time of year. Similar in mood to his So Nice EP, this new digital-only release imparts a warmly nostalgic and satisfying mood concerning things associated with the summer season.
Summer Feelings is mostly built around melodious and pensive piano melodies (think Brian Eno and you’ll have a general idea) layered with the warm crackle of worn vinyl, fragile textures of noise, and field recordings, and along the way you’ll notice elements of the fragmented, click'n'cut style here to. Fleeting, decaying fragments of noise and deliberately played piano melodies are purposefully juxtaposed making for an affecting, lamenting ambiance. These songs would appear to be brief vignettes, sonic sketches if you like, capturing in sound and conveying the impression of some sun-drenched event or memory associated with summertime.
Descriptors such fragile, controlled, evocative, contemplative, imaginative, melancholic, classic and harmonious all apply to Tomasz Bednarczyk’s Summer Feelings. Compared to much of its catalog this is a considerably different sonic pathway for the Room40 label - one that I’m sure no one will be disappointed that they traversed.
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