Bartosz Kruczyński - Dreams & Whispers (2024)

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#ambient #balearic #experimental

Tracklist:

1.Dream I 00:00
2.Dream II 03:35
3.Dream III 06:31
4.Dream IV 09:34
5.Dream V 12:37
6.Dream VI 15:23
7.Dream VII 18:20
8.Whisper I 20:34
9.Whisper II 23:54
10.Whisper III 27:09
11.Whisper IV 29:51
12.Whisper V 32:55
13.Whisper VI 36:57
14.Whisper VII 40:42

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We’ve always been careful not to call Balmat an ambient label, because we like having the freedom to move, to drift, to morph. But with our 11th release, we turn our ears—proudly, blissfully—to a strain of ambient at its most timeless. The appropriately titled Dreams & Whispers comes from Warsaw’s Bartosz Kruczyński, who has recorded under a number of guises, Earth Trax, as well as his own name. Over the years, he’s touched upon deep house, breakbeats, acid, techno, electro, IDM, and more; often, the throughline running through a given album is simply the refusal to remain in any one place for long—well, that, and his unusually nuanced ear for harmony and texture.

Those qualities come to the fore on Dreams & Whispers, which might be the most focused encapsulation of Kruczyński’s atmospheric sensibilities to date. Across 14 stripped-down tracks for shimmer and pulse, Kruczyński evokes overlapping styles in ambient—warm vibraphones, taut arps, massing strings, lonesome delay chains —but always with his own twist. Fitting the album’s title, the album is loosely divided into two distinct moods: The A-side, “Dreams,” is charged with subtle movement, rhythms spreading out like rings around skipped stones, while the B-side, “Whispers,” plunges into a zone of shadows and hush. The two complementary moods flow into one another like the faces of a Moebius strip, yielding an album that’s intuitively shaped and rich in emotion.

released June 28, 2024

All music written and produced by Bartosz Kruczyński.
Additional mix by Marcin Cisło.
Thanks to Anna Zakrzewska and Tomasz Filiks.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Cover artwork by José Quintanar.
Designed by Basora.

#Poland #Balmat #BALMAT11 #electroacoustic #house #meditation #minimal #newwave #relaxation #sleepmusic #synth #atmospheric​ #soundscapes​ #electronic #FLAC #lossless