Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes -
I've always added this short note to all the playlists -
As with all the playlists, they are jumping off points to discoveries. They are not meant to be definitive. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next....follow up on "sounds like"....see who's following, many artists follow other artists....
but I thought I'd put it into practice myself.
I started with the first artist and then followed the sound trail to other connected artists. There is no preference on first choice or the sound trail but the playlist is always eclectic and it does give a chance for artists to be heard who may slip through the net : )
Beginning with Angelica Castello, artists are venimeuses, Anna Zaradny, Steffi Neuhuber, Clara de Asis, Mona Servo, Jessica Slighter, Christina Kubisch, Hayley Suviste, Sylvia Hinz, Lucia Chamorro, Georgina Canifru, Svetlana Maras and Susan Drone.

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Lincoln Sea Part 1 (excerpt)

Robert Piotrowicz "When Snakeboy Is Dying" LP 12"
pressed on white, 140 gr vinyl
Musica Genera MG V1 

Composed and recorded by Robert Piotrowicz in 2009, mixed in 2011.
All instruments: modular synthesizer, guitar, piano, vibraphone, software by Robert Piotrowicz.

more about release:
www.musicagenera.net 


Robert Piotrowicz - The Bite

composed and recorded in 2009 by Robert Piotrowicz, published by SUB ROSA in 2010 for "An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music / sixth a-chronology 1957-2010)

Robert Piotrowicz - Lincoln Sea: Ice Walk

composed and recorded by Robert Piotrowicz in april 2010
released by Bocian records on spli LP with C.M. von Hausswolff

www.robertpiotrowicz.net
http://www.bocianrecords.com/

Robert Piotrowicz - Clinamen 3

all instruments, composition, recordings etc by Robert Piotrowicz 
released on Bocian Records, on "Rurokura and Eastern European Fol Music Reserarch vol. 2" vinyl 7"

Robert Piotrowicz - School Girl Band of Gromovaya Balka

excerpt from Robert Piotrowicz, Lukáš Jiřička – Samoobrona LP
(Bôłt Records)

Music: Robert Piotrowicz.
Cast direction: Lukáš Jiřička, Robert Piotrowicz.
Adaptation and dramaturgy: Lukáš Jiřička.
Text: Helmut Kajzar.
Actors: Klara Bielawka, Joanna Drozda, Miłogost Reczek.
Master and cut: Rashad Becker at D&M.
Voice recordings: Robert Piotrowicz at Recognition Studio.
Original artwork: Josef Bolf
Layout: Tomek Mirt. Supported by: Academy of Performing Arts, Prague


http://www.boltrecords.pl/7,radio/95,piotrowicz_jiricka_samoobrona,en.html

Samoobrona Part 1(excerpt)

opening track from Robert Piotrowicz "Stara Szkoła Ze Złota / Old School Made Of Gold" EP 45 rpm

Musica Genera V3 / Bocian Records BC222

Calamitas (excerpt)

Preview of "Theurgy One" piece from "Go Go Theurgy" 12" LP, 
new album of Anna Zaradny to be premiered on 13.05.2016
poster limited to 77 copies 
Musica Genera/ Bocian Records

Composed and recorded by Anna Zaradny in 2015
Electronics, analogue and digital synthesizers 
Photo by Magda Wunsche 
Drawing by Anna Zaradny
Design by Lasse Marhaug 
Mastering an Cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin 
Produced by Musica Genera

Anna Zaradny "Theurgy One"  (preview)

track from "Walser", album by Robert Piotrowicz
more infor here:
https://robertpiotrowicz.bandcamp.com/album/walser

Walser

Tingal (sylvan setup for two)

Low Frequency Orchestra 
at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound, Zagreb, on May 8th 2014 
Angélica Castelló – recorders, devices
Maja Osojnik – recorders, voice, electronics
Matija Schellander – double bass
Thomas Grill – digital sounds

LFO_LIZ_4

unmastered internet preview of Formatio, one of five pieces from LP to be released 

Composed and recorded by Robert Piotrowicz in 2009, reedited in 2011.
All instruments: modular synthesizer, guitar, piano, vibraphone, software by Robert Piotrowicz.

Robert Piotrowicz - Formatio (excerpt)

The Great Unveiling from Sligter's upcoming album Polycrisis:yes! (2018). Featured in the HBO series The New Pope by Paolo Sorrentino.

The Great Unveiling

As a last relict of winter and snow, wavery bass lines, overlying sizzling atmospheric lines. 


ijslaag

Robert Piotrowicz - analogue modular synthesizer, electronic
excerpt of concert, 8.10.2012, Helsinki

published on V/A - IN PROGRESS 2
http://www.laznia.pl/mainart,30,kompilacja_v_a_in_progress_2.html

Robert Piotrowicz live in Helsinki (excerpt)

Extracts from the album 'Repetition of the same dream' (Another Timbre, 2020), featuring 5 pieces collaboratively created during C-19 lockdown in Basel, Switzerland, by composer-instrumentalist Clara de Asís and flautist Mara Winter. 

Released in August 2020 on Another Timbre, who commissioned the music as one of their 'quaratine commissions'.

http://anothertimbre.com/claramara.html

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/repetition-of-the-same-dream

Still water / Present omission (extracts) (Another Timbre, 2020) – Clara de Asís & Mara Winter

sound & visual artist, composer, improviser Co-founder  Musica Genera Festival and label
BOOMKAT REV
 'Heavily contrasting sides of improvised, fractal, avant industrial rhythms and complex tonal noise from the cream of the Polish experimental music NoetingerPiotrowiczZaradny. Vinyl master&cut by Rashad Becker. 
CRACKFINDER the album comprises of two distinct parts. The first is extremely intense and eventful, creating a strong tension, giving the sense of an immense effort or even wrestling between the musicians; a clash of ideas and values
The second part evokes a kind of a soothing stabilization. One may think that the interlocutors have reached a consensus
The artwork on the cover is a frame from the video art piece ENJOY THE SILENCE by Zaradny: symbolic flares and cracking of matter in complete silence. The intensity of the image, however, creates a strong suggestion of sound.   
Cracks – both material and metaphorical – do not have to be the negative effect of an abrupt event. They can be the beginning of change, an opening for the new, an impulse for action, the search for the 'portals of change’

'Experimental Polish composer practices bewitching electronic rituals in GO GO THEURGY; following two memorable feat with Fennesz & Stangl 
We were struck by Anna’s taste for dissonance and an intense, pulsating sort of feminine pressure, and find those elements in majestic effect.
Abstract in its stoic, precisely sculpted and beat-less arrangement, yet organically evolving in its layered harmonic chaos, GGT divines a free-floating space at once powerfully driven by rhythm, yet due to the absence of any tangible percussion defines a lush, keening, and pensile tension whose effect is only heightened when she abruptly veers off into passages of pizzicato pointillism. 
It could be considered dance music in a most extreme, physical form with proper amplification both sides have the potential to exert serious G-force torque, liberating the body from the mind, and vice versa - but the underlying structures which also lend themselves to comparison with classical music, especially in the staggering, Wagnerian turn of phrase that cleaves side two, before it calves into an almost asphyxiating, head-curdling final passage. Really impressive stuff.  

'The brilliant A Zaradny's follows up her engrossing debut with RE:EM new EP featuring a sumptuous Fennesz rework of her 'New feat Old', following hot on the heels of Robert Piotrwicz's crushing side, 'Stara Szkoła Ze Złota' to remind us the ascetic, uncompromising brilliance of Polish experimental music at its best.
On the front Zaradny utterly dominates the senses with a pulsating deconstruction of 'Stop The Chaos'; originally a sub-3 minute rager, now distilled and expanded to three times the length in a cyclical swarm of metallic drone timbre and ear-curdling howls emulating effect of a massive nitrous oxide asphyxiation in the middle of a grindcore show (well it does to us at least).
The B-side presents another facet of Anna's work with the eviscerated, bubbling tones of 'New feat Old' giving way to what sounds like Powell dragged backwards at 33rpm, before Fennesz concludes with a blissfully noisy reassembly of the latter rent in coruscating harmonics that work right on the biting point. 

'An absolute find. Most impressive is Zaradny's A-side, 'Octøpus'. Ostensibly static yet deftly, subtly rhythmic, it makes for a memorable first introduction; lulling us with hypnotic microtonal bass drones which grow stereo fluctuating pulses and (what might be) fragments of chiming vocals conducted with the precise, haptic electronic sensitivity of Holly Herndon and the patient development of an Eleh or Eliane Radigue recording...
By contrast Stangl's B-side 'Crédit' is organic, grounded, rendering shimmering guitar strokes into crushed glass textures and hovering harmonic overtones and grainy waves of bass over one extended piece. A real treat from this already promising label, highly recommended.

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Anna Zaradny "Theurgy One" (preview)

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