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Mother’s Day is here! That’s why we wish to remind you of two of our albums:
„Statek Matka„ (Matka means Mother) by Kiev Office and „Hi, Mom„ by KSAS.
To celebrate this occasion, we launch a special offer on the CDs. It starts on 13 May and is valid while stocks last. We assure you: MOTHERS LOVE THESE RECORDS.
For more information go to:
https://nasiono.net/en/album/kiev-office-statek-matka/
https://nasiono.net/en/album/ksas-hi-mom/

here’s a short film from Szelest Spadających Papierków gig that took place on 22 July 2011 at Galeria EL in Elbląg. We publish it since Szelest will play another concert at this gorgeous venue on 14 May 2016. The band lineup: Teodor Olter (drums), Natan Kryszk (saxophone), Szymon Albrzykowski (generator), Sławomir 'Ozi’ Żamojda (walkmans).

It’s our pleasure to share with the whole wide world the FULL CONCERT of Pure Phase Ensemble 4 feat. Mark Gardener recorded at SpaceFest! in Gdansk in 2014. Last year we released the live album (https://nasiono.net/en/album/pure-phase-ensemble-4-ft-mark-gardener-live-at-spacefest/) but this material is just so damn good that we’ve decided to publish a video version as well. 🙂

Members of PPE4:
Mark Gardener (Musical Director, Ride) – voice, guitar
Ray Dickaty (Musical Director) – saxophone, flute, korg monotribe
Jacek Rezner (Wilga) – drums
Kamil Hordyniec (Wilga) – bass
Michał Pydo (Hatifnats) – voice, guitar
Michał ‘Kostek’ Stolc (Cisza nocna) – synths, backing vocals
Karol Schwarz (KSAS) – guitar, voice, korg monotribe, phase

Pure Phase Ensemble 4 is an international music collective, created especially for the SpaceFest! festival of shoegaze, space-rock and psychedelia in Gdansk. Musicians from Poland and abroad gathered to take part in a special workshop. They collectively composed a concert’s worth of music, which they then presented live to the festival-goers. The programme for the workshop was curated by Ray Dickaty, a British saxophonist improviser and former member of Spiritualized (1997-2002) and Karol Schwarz (KSAS), who also manages Nasiono Records label. During the 2014 edition of SpaceFest!, Mark Gardener, the frontman of celebrated shoegaze pioneers RIDE, was a new musical director and co-curated the workshop. This unique performance was recorded live and subsequently released as an LP in 2015.

The band will meet again to play a concert this year. We can’t tell you when and where just yet, but we can already share the news. More details soon to come. Meanwhile here’s the FULL CONCERT from 2014 for you to enjoy:

„Sing” album release party will take place on the 2nd of April 2016 in Klub Żak in Gdańsk. 

Joanna Bielawska introduced her Asia i Koty project to a wider Polish audience in 2012 when she released her debut album entitled “Miserable Miaow”. It presented her fascination with simple songs, acoustic melodies and electronic influences which, when put together, created a beautiful landscape of melancholic and distinctive songs. Asia i Koty is a singer/songwriter who composes, plays electric guitar and experiments with loop stations herself. It’s a minimalistic songwriting, enhanced by multi-layered harmonies and mantric repeats. Joanna’s singing voice is the most distinguished element – it’s deeply moving, clear and mature.

In Asia i Koty’s music one can spot fragility but also dark mood, simple melodies but also musical experiments. Moreover, the artist co-created four albums with her former group, Folder. After she had released her debut solo album she also collaborated with several bands or ephemeral projects, like “Nasiono Swap Singers”, co-created Karol Schwarz All Stars’ “Hi, Mom!” album, took part in two editions of Pure Phase Ensemble at the first and the third SpaceFest! festival. Apart from these, she started two new projects deriving from electronic music: Morgaine Fay – a duo based on ambient and noise synthesizer and electric guitar sounds; and Kthx NFZ – a solo techno project.

The second album entitled “Sing” will be released on the 2nd of April 2016 on the Nasiono Records label that Bielawska has been associated with from the very beginning of her career. As the title indicates, this album is about singing and vocals play the major role in it. Asia i Koty intertwines here various musical inspirations, among which one can sense the spirit of Angel Olsen, Cat Power or Julianna Barwick. The music is based on the sound of an electric guitar but Janna Bielawska reaches also for an acoustic guitar, piano, loops her instruments or enhances them with a subtle beat. The artist states that this album is about the importance of singing songs in her life and about a constant struggle with herself, about the barriers we create for ourselves:

“Sing” is a chronicle of my battle with depression, pathologically low self-esteem and persisting lack of faith in myself. The songs were written without any prior planning – they are the result of spontaneous home recording sessions which occurred when I had a chance to turn my self-loathing into creative energy. The song “Sing” is about a constant state of self-doubt which paralyses and prevents from doing anything most of the time. “Miracle I Hate” is presenting my fascination by the way how the state of depression can totally distort the perception of oneself. Because how is it possible to relish the world that surrounds you and at the same time thoroughly hate yourself and your life which after all is a miracle too? “In the Morning” is about the strokes of hope and life energy – and how quick they tend to slip through your fingers. “All I Ask Take My Hand” is about the things a depressed person expects from their loved ones. Depression destroys not only the person suffering from it but also the loved ones who tend to take responsibility for the illness. Even though they are not to blame in the slightest. In most of the cases, depression has nothing to do with whatever is happening around us. It comes and goes without any notice. In a slip of a second it can take the whole meaning of life away, but not forever. That’s why sometimes it’s enough just to hold each other’s hands and to wait for the meaning to come back.

For further information go to: www.facebook.com/asiaikoty

Here is another compilation recorded in June 2015 during our Na Siano Sunrise agro-festival taking place in a barn in Kaszuby.

If you have a good ear for music – you will find fluctuating drummers, choirs out of tune and stumbles in solos on this album.
But if you have a good heart – you will find lots of joy, energy, melodies and some true gems here.
You will find a previously unreleased Asia i Koty recording, as well as a cracking, energetic version of “Notatki” by Pure Phase Ensemble 4.
You will find Popsysze, as always the best live.
You will find a song written especially for Na Siano Sunrise by Wojt i Vreen – a band successfully keeping the number of fans on Facebook below one hundred for years (last time I checked – 79).
You will find the newest recording by the legendary Pancerne Rowery.
You will find a song about Dolphins by Judy’s Funeral and a song about Gorbachev by Walrus Alphabet.
Finally, you will find tracks by the bands you have never heard of before and perhaps will never hear of again (Kormorany i Żurawie, Morze).

 
bandcamp:
https://nasiano.bandcamp.com/album/na-siano-sunrise-2015-cz-2

info / buy CD:
http://www.nasiono.net/nasiano/2016-5.html

release date:
11 March 2016
 

mix & recording: Karol Schwarz
19-21 June 2015, in a barn in Kaszuby
catalogue No.: na siano 5/2016
 

1. Judy’s Funeral – Dolphins (live) 2:38
2. Asia i Koty – All I Ask Take My Hand (live) 4:52
3. Popsysze – Łasi się (live) 8:25
4. Wojt i Vreen – Już nie będzie poniedziałków (live) 3:42
5. Walrus Alphabet – Gorbaczow (live) 4:34
6. Pure Phase Ensemble 4 – Notatki (live) 7:45
7. Kormorany i Żurawie – Spring (live) 5:19
8. Pancerne Rowery – Schiza (live) 4:48
9. Morze – Taniec Rufusa (live) 4:08

total time: 46:12

Here’s the 4th Nasiono Records Sampler* before your very eyes, our dear friends.
This time we’ve chosen the most popular „easy listening” songs from the whole history of Nasiono Records (2008-2016). The old and new hits are compiled into a neat medley which would fit a good (alternative) radio request show. The popular songs set by the acts like KSAS, The Shipyard, Asia i Koty is delicately spiced up by such musical flavour-enhancers as a death metal Mastabah and a couple of unique unreleased tunes by the new bands on our label (Projekt Poezja Kulturystyczna, 7faz).

Nasiono Sampler Vol. 4 is available on:
kup CD
bandcamp
soundcloud
spotify
iTunes
deezer

Nasiono Records będzie reprezentowało Gdańsk w ramach Europejskiej Stolicy Kultury 2016 we Wrocławiu. Zaproponowane przez nas koncerty i wydarzenia kulturalne zostaną włączone do programu Koalicji Miast – wspólnej inicjatywy Gdańska, Katowic, Lublina, Łodzi i Wrocławia. Celem projektu jest przedstawienie najbardziej charakterystycznych dla każdego z miast narracji w przestrzeni Wrocławia.

Wrocław stanie się sceną, na której spotkają się najlepsze projekty i praktyki kulturowe z każdego z miast Koalicji. Gdańskowi, finalnie, została oddana do dyspozycji kamienica przy Starym Rynku we Wrocławiu.

Do konkursu „Genius Loci” zgłoszono 11 wniosków, z których komisja konkursowa złożona z przedstawicieli wszystkich koalicyjnych miast, najwyżej oceniła projekty Stowarzyszenia Nasiono, Fundacji Transgressive Art, Fundacji Interference i Wojciecha Radtke.

Wkrótce zdradzimy więcej szczegółów!
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Koalicja Miast to projekt miast, które ubiegały się o tytuł Europejskiej Stolicy Kultury, a obecnie współpracują z Wrocławiem – zwycięzcą konkursu. Projekt ma na celu prezentacje kulturowe miast na scenie Wrocławia: Gdańska, Katowic, Lublina i Łodzi skupione na najbardziej charakterystycznych dla nich narracjach kulturowych oraz na tym, co stanowi o ich genius loci.

http://www.ikm.gda.pl/2016/03/znamy-kuratorow-prezentacji-gdanska-we-wroclawiu-europejskiej-stolicy-kultury-2016/

Już za kilka dni Snowid wraz z DJ Grzybem ruszają w trasę po Polsce.

Artyści związani zarówno z festiwalem SpaceFest! jak i z wytwórnią Nasiono Records zagrają m.in. w Gdańsku, Gryfinie, Ustce, Toruniu i Krakowie.
Więcej informacji w zakładce KONCERTY.

Tymczasem polecamy wywiad dla DNA Muzyki, w którym Snowid opowiada o współpracy z Nasiono, a także o grach, snach, papieżu kosmosu i marsjańskim młocie.

3 III Gdańsk, Absinthe Cafe
4 III Gryfino, u Suszka (w ramach festiwalu Włóczykij)
5 III Ustka, Ramydada
6 III Toruń, Koniec Świata
10 III Kraków, Kawiarnia Naukowa