PIOTR KUREK 'Polygome' (LP/DL)
Release date: 29th March 2019

Cat.#: HITD 046
All songs written & Produced by Piotr Kurek
Mixed by Devin Greenwood @ Honey Jar, NY
Mastered by Mike Grinser @ D&M, Berlin
Artwork by Florent Groc

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PIOTR KUREK - Polygome

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Yellow Salamand'rs shelter
UNDERGROUND, they feed off the COUNTER-CULTURE, their minds have vast experi-MENTAL capacity, they search through the AVANT GARDEn, they DAMn the MAINSTREAM, and live the SURreal life. They are the “Dunning-Kruger” of their coterie. They are Illusional Engineers, Dystopian Spelunkers, Desolation Cartographers, Misanthropic Therapists, Pragmatic Escapists, Clinical Obscurists, Oxymoronic Magistrates, Elaborate Equivicators, Elevator Operators, Hallucinogenic Fungi Analysts, and Restroom Attendants, to name but a few prestigious occupations. Never underestimate the Yellow Salamand’r.

(Started making experimental music in ‘81 at 18 years old with circuit bent devices. 
Did some underground tape trading. Also made field recordings when working in a steel mill at night. (Lost all cassettes from that era.) Domestic life halted almost all artistic endeavours for many years. Along came 2013, and my world and technology had changed drastically. I started back into music using an iPhone and various technological detritus. I had shifted from lo-fi analog, to lo-fi digital. This is where I am still at nowadays. I can create unique experimental music, and yet still be satisfied with the outcome. I truly enjoy working with minimal equipment allowing me to be challenged by the limitations. (Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. - Holger Czukay) Even my visual art has gone from analog (painting, drawing) to digital collage. I don’t use AI and even though I think it will one day have it’s place in the art world, it just doesn’t align with my personal principles. If you enjoy esoteric, obscure, experimental sounds, I hope you enjoy some of the material provided here. If you do like my works, and are curious to discover more, go to the link at the top of this bio. It can take you in many different directions. Cheers)

Working through multiple arts (drawing, music, poetry), Michaël Koswill composes melancholic music inspired by space and silence. Initially trained in percussion, he has long explored sounds to create particular atmospheres such as choreographies or soundtracks of films whose mysterious stories are only visible in his imagination. He also writes poems, paints and draws what he considers to be "brief forms for lively gestures".

Within the artistic collective Unclearpicture, he composes and writes texts inspired by the original photographic work of Sylvain Entressangle.

Travaillant au travers de multiples arts (dessin, musique, poésie, Michaël Koswill compose des musiques mélancoliques inspirées par l’espace et le silence. Initialement formé aux percussions, il explore depuis longtemps les sons pour créer des ambiances particulières comme autant de chorégraphies ou de bandes originales de films dont les histoires mystérieuses seraient uniquement visibles dans son imagination. Il écrit par ailleurs des poèmes, peint et dessine ce qu'il considère être des "formes brèves pour gestes vifs". 

Au sein du collectif artistique Unclearpicture, Il compose et écrit des textes inspirés du travail photographique original de Sylvain Entressangle.

PIOTR KUREK - Polygome

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