Smartwoods, by Piotr Kurek

Smartwoods

by Piotr Kurek

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orbonk Such a wonderfully engaging and atmosepheric set. Lots of space, air, and this timbrous, intimate sensitivity. With a shining heart at its centre. Easily one of this year's finest. Thanks

stas this world needs more of Piotr's music ✨ much love and gratitude Favorite track: Klamm.

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1.	Smartwoods 05:21	buy track
2.	Walk 06:00	buy track
3.	Wid 05:19	buy track
4.	Noa 05:04	buy track
5.	Klamm 03:12	buy track
6.	Maybe Life 05:28	buy track
7.	Harps 05:48 video	buy track

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Piotr Kurek’s new album “Smartwoods” is a sprawling root system of tiny melodic phrases that loop and curl around subtly evolving instrumental thickets. The Warsaw-based producer and composer takes his cues from early music, baroque music and experimental jazz, entangling his influences with filigree traces of contemporary computer music and fueling it with sonic vapors from the near future.

Made up of seven distinct segments, the album blurs its acoustic and electronic elements into an illusory hedge of abstract sound. Harp, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, voices and guitar twist into computerized processes and synthesizer chirps, creating an uncanny dreamworld where the real isn’t always what it seems. Each player is entwined with the other to create a living, breathing whole.

Like Kurek’s painterly 2021 album “World Speaks”, “Smartwoods” is also inspired by visual art - particularly the whimsical work of Algerian-French graphic designer Jean Sariano. The album cover features artwork by Polish painter Tomasz Kowalski, whose shapeshifting creatures and miniature stories aptly reflect the music’s wild fantasy. The first manifestation of “Smartwoods” – a live show at Unsound in Kraków in 2022 – featured animations by Italian artist Francesco Marrello, who put together a visual treatment for the single “Harps”.

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released September 15, 2023

Music composed, arranged and produced by Piotr Kurek

Anna Pašic - harp
Tomasz Duda - clarinets, saxophone, flute
Wojtek Traczyk - double bass, electric bass
Piotr Kurek - keyboards, MIDI wind controller, electric guitar

Recorded in June and November 2022 by Piotr Kurek, Piotr Zabrodzki (Studio Pasterka) and Tomasz Duda
Mixed by Piotr Kurek
Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering
Painting by Tomasz Kowalski
Lay-out by Aleksandra Grunholz
Commissioned and curated by Unsound
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Piotr Kurek Warszawa, Poland

Piotr Kurek is a Warsaw-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Known to work as a solo musician, but also as part of various collaborations, he has released music on Unsound, Edições CN, Mondoj, Hands In The Dark, Black Sweat Records, Dunno, Sangoplasmo and other labels. ... more

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