Albums

Neverending Delays – Muzak For The Masses

Nasiono 86/2017
PREMIERA: 8 lipca 2017

cena: 19,99 zł (+ 7 zł koszty przesyłki – TYLKO NA TERENIE POLSKI)

cena: 5€ (+ 5€ koszty przesyłki – poza granicami Polski)

format: cd-r
okładka: koperta
czas trwania: 43:26

1. Path Of Pat 7:27
2. You Will Never Know The Next Chord 8:58
3. Wiped Up 7:02
4. Waiting For Delay 19:45

All track written by Pawłowski/Miegoń

Piotr Pawłowski – Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synthesisers on track 2
Michał Miegoń – Electric Guitar, Loops, Drum Machines, Synthesisers

Recorded 2015-2017 @ Sound 8 Gdynia

Produced, mixed and mastered by Michał Miegoń

No delays wer harmed during the recording sessions.

Kiev Office – Modernistyczny Horror

Nasiono 85/2017

1. Obręby Rewiry 4:14
2. Makłowicz w podróży 3:02
3. Daj mu jeść 5:03
4. Anonim spod ziemi 4:54
5. Lekcja 1 1:35
6. Cafe Santana 4:21
7. Strefa szybkiej samotności 5:04
8. Jądro Miasta 2.42
9. 8 Lat w Tybecie

czas trwania : 38:37

PREMIERA: 14 maja 2017

Muzyka: Kiev Office
Teksty: Michał Miegoń, Joanna Kucharska (6)

Michał Miegoń: Wokal, gitary
Joanna Kucharska: Wokal, Gitara basowa
Krzysztof Wroński: Perkusja

Nagranie, mix, mastering: Michał Miegoń
Sound 8 Gdynia (styczeń-marzec 2017)
www.sound8.pl

Projekt okładki: Joanna Kucharska
www.facebook.com/sztukodzieło

Kiev Office dziękują: Rodzinom, przyjaciołom, fanom. Wiecie kim jesteście!

 

O PŁYCIE:
Podróż do wnętrza Gdyni
Gdynia – przez wielu zwana perłą modernizmu. Co się jednak kryje za wymuskanymi fasadami budynków? Co znaleźć można skręcając z utartych turystycznych szlaków, wymykając się ze zorganizowanej wycieczki? Kolejna płyta gdyńskiej grupy Kiev Office zabiera słuchacza w podróż w takie właśnie niezbadane zakamarki. Przez krzaki, nadmorskie bunkry, podziemne korytarze i rzadko odwiedzane enklawy pierwotnych gdynian – docieramy do samego jądra ciemności. Do wnętrza miasta.
Dopiero perspektywa mieszkańca odkrywa prawdziwe oblicze Gdyni. Wraz z Goranem i resztą ekipy patrolujemy kolejne rewiry, odwiedzamy knajpy dla tutejszych, szybkie strefy samotności, działkowe budy i całe kwartały, które – choć również z morza i marzeń – przypominają raczej biedne zaułki Tybetu. Ta ładna, wypieszczona Gdynia gdzieś się oddala, cukierkowe domy z tej perspektywy stają się małe i nierealne, przypominają raczej czekoladowe batony, na tyle kruche, że można je zmiażdżyć jednym kłapnięciem szczęk. A tymczasem gdzieś głębiej, gdzieś pod skórą miasta coś się czai. Coś (ktoś?) czeka i pisze do nas listy. Modernistyczny horror? Rzeczywiście – ciarki przechodzą.
Kiev Office od lat pozostają wierni Gdyni. Na każdej kolejnej płycie eksplorują i przywołują przestrzenie swojego miasta. Warto jednak zauważyć, jak ta niekończąca się historia ewoluuje – jak z płyty na płytę staje się bardziej dojrzała. Gdynia rozbrykana, imprezowa, staje się Gdynią poważną, skrywającą mroczne sekrety.

 

Jako zatwardziały mieszczański gdańszczanin ukułem swego czasu taki wierszyk: „w Sopocie bywam tylko nocą, a w Gdyni wcale – no bo po co?”. Przez lata wydawał mi się on celny i zabawny. Jednak Kiev Office powoli zmienia tę perspektywę. Owszem, nadal nie bywam w Gdyni. Ale dzięki płytom Kievów to Gdynia bywa u mnie. I muszę to przyznać – coraz milej kojarzę te odwiedziny. Coraz mocniej czekam na kolejne.
eMPi / Michał Piotrowski (Towary Zastępcze, The Końs)

 

Przesłuchałem w całości piątą płytę tria Kiev Office. Już cztery razy pod rząd. Jeśli tworzysz piosenki, które zaczynają się całkowicie nieadekwatnie do reszty utworu emanującej szaleństwem, piszesz teksty o Gdyni i potrafisz zepsuć brzmienie gitary podczas solówki, z pewnością nazywasz się Michał Miegoń.
To najlepsza płyta tego zespołu, świetnie brzmiąca, z zaskakującymi zwrotami akcji. Jest nawet murowany hicior “Cafe Santana”, który ma w sobie niezbędną dawkę pewnej chujowości, żeby zostać hiciorem. Ale ponieważ mi się bardzo podoba, to pewnie nie zostanie.
Jak na na razie najlepsza polska płyta tego roku, ale kogo to w ogóle obchodzi.
Piotr Pawłowski (Made in Poland, The Shipyard)

Technolodzy Procesu / Semuta

Nasiono 84/2017

PREMIERE: 11 FEB 2017 Gdańsk, B90

https://www.facebook.com/events/226448937766989/

price: 19,99 zl (+ 6 zl costs for shipping inside Poland)

price: 6,99 € (+ 5 € costs for shipping outside Poland)

format: cd-r
cover: sheet
time: 31:18

Popsysze / Kopalino

Nasiono 83/2017

price: 29,99 zl (+ 6 zl costs for shipping inside Poland)

price: 6,99 € (+ 5 € costs for shipping outside Poland)

format: cd-audio
cover: digipack (one wing) + booklet
time: 48:10

TRACKLIST
1. Kopalino 6:06
2. Linia nr 8 4:04
3. Pobrzeże 3:35
4. Jądro Ciemności 3:46
5. Kasieńka 2:36
6. Wieje wiatr 3:27
7. Kurhan 5:29
8. Słońce 5:02
9. Powiedz co widziałeś 3:34
10. Latarnia 10:16
time: 48:04 min

Credits:
Music: Jarosław Marciszewski – tracks no 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 i 10; Sławomir Draczyński tracks no 1 i 5.
Arranged by: Popsysze
Lyrics: Jarosław Maciszewski (except for the track „Latarnia” Jarosław Marciszewski and Grzegorz Nawrocki)
Jarosław Marciszewski – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion instruments, electronics, vocals
Jakub Świątek – drums, percussion instruments, electronics, vocals
Sławomir Draczyński – bass, guitar, percussion instruments
Recorded by: Sławomir Draczyński. April 2016, Kopalino, Poland.
Mixing, mastering and production engineer: Jan Galbas in Highwave Studio, Gdynia

The video for “Słońce”, the first single from the “Kopalino” album, was created by Joanna Kucharska / Sztukodzieło (who’s also a bass guitarist with Kiev Office, Marla Cinger, 1926 and Lonker See)

Popsysze – Kopalino

Popsysze is a trio from Tricity. The band was formed in 2008 and consists of Jarek Marciszewski (lead guitar, vocals), Sławek Draczyński (bass) and Kuba Świątek (drums, vocals). The band released two albums: “Popstory” (2012) and “Popsute” (2015).
The third album was recorded in April 2016 during a week-long stay in a summer house in Kopalino village. Most of the tracks were composed and arranged within that period. In the material recorded you can hear the sea, smell wet soil. The group was captivated and inspired by the surrounding so much that they decided to name the album “Kopalino”.
Jarek Marciszewski is the author of the lyrics. In the process of writing he was supported by Grzegorz Nawrocki from the Kobiety band. He was, among the others, a co-author of the “Latarnia” lyrics.

The album is going to be released on 11 Feb 2017 on the Nasiono Records label.

The record release party concert will be held in B90 Club in Gdańsk on 11 Feb 2017.

80/2016: 7faz / Faza G

Nasiono 80/2016

7faz – Faza G

1. Faza G cz.1 12:03
2. Faza G cz.2 (How Long Song) 10:37

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format: cd-r
sleeve: white unipack on left side. Print: stamps. Booklet included. Handmade, numbered copies (100)
total time: 22:40

FREE UPGRADE to Faza G+A or G+B or G+C or G+D or G+E or G+F on one CD-R!
PREMIERE: 18 November 2016

price: 29,99 zl (+ 6 zl costs for shipping inside Poland)

price: 6,99 € (+ 5 € costs for shipping outside Poland)

CREDITS:
music: 7faz
Karol Schwarz (Pure Phase Ensemble, KSAS) – vocal, guitar, phase (faza/phase)
Michał Gos (Oczi Cziorne, Mazzoll & Arhythmic Perfection) – drums
Tomasz Gadecki (Olbrzym i Kurdupel, Band A) – saxophone
Jakub Noga (KSAS, Baden Baden) – sitar
Jowita Cieślikiewicz (Oczi Cziorne) – synthesizers
Szymon Albrzykowski (Szelest Spadajacych Papierkow, Prawatt) – synthesizers
Max Białystok (1926) – bass guitar
Artur Bieszke (KSAS, Walrus Alphabet) – guitar
Piotr Czerski (Morze) – guitar

Recorded by Karol Schwarz at Stodoła Na Siano. Sept. 2015, Kaszuby, Poland.
Mixed, produced by Karol Schwarz.

about 7faz:
Seven is a mystical number. It is a symbol of wholeness, fulfilment and perfection in many mythologies and religions of the world; it symbolises the bond between time and space. It was an attribute of gods, its figure featured in architecture, holy scripts, commandments and cosmology. There were seven virtues, seven sacraments, seven liberal arts and seven bodily “glories” of the blessed in Heaven. But we’re not done yet: there are seven days of the week, seven planets ruling the zodiac, seven rainbow colours and seven crystal systems. Not to mention Seven Samurai and the same amount of The Magnificent. And how many notes are there in music? That’s right, seven.

Now there comes another seven: 7faz – a new project by Tricity (Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia / Poland) musicians associated with Nasiono Records. The project ideally fits the symbolism mentioned above. Why? Because 7faz is a finished wholeness and harmony but simultaneously – it constitutes a building material for something more.

Seven phases may be just listened to, but they also provide building blocks for musicians or DJs. “Phases G and E were used by Pure Phase Ensemble 5 ft Hugo Race during SpaceFest performance. You can hear Phase G in the background of “I’m Gonna Use My Claws” by Asia i Koty. Phases are also used by Projekt Poezja Kulturystyczna (Bodybuliders’ Poetry Project)” – says Karol Schwarz, the initiator and one of the creators of the project.

Seven phases create seven musical spaces recorded on seven separate discs. Each phase usually consists of two parts: tuning (a tranquil, contemplative part) and a trip (a louder part).

Individual phases constitute separate entities but they all interconnect in an unusual way, complement each other, unceasingly swirl around each other and interfere.

Seven days before The Deluge Noah heard: Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal, a male and its mate. And also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. We do not know what Karol Schwarz heard, but the fact is that the musicians he gathered met and recorded in a wooden barn situated in the middle of Kashubian nowhere. Seven kilometres from the nearest village shop. And when it stopped raining – a rainbow of seven colours appeared in the sky…

Released with the financial assistance of the City of Gdansk within the framework of The Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk

more about 7faz: https://nasiono.net/en/album/7faz/

REVIEWS:
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Pure Phase Ensemble 5 ft. Hugo Race / Live at SpaceFest

Nasiono 82/2016

PREMIERA: 21 PAŹDZIERNIKA 2016

Kup CD przez bandcamp lub napisz do nas.

format: cd-audio
okładka: unipack (2 skrzydła)
czas trwania: 76:47

1. Phase In 4:04
2. Phase Out 8:00
3. Elektryk*~ 6:41
4. We Would Not Change a Chord~ 9:26
5. Krzyczeć~ 8:23
6. The Chase 5:04
7. One Chord* 10:50
8. Nowy Port 3 A.M. 5:46
9. Blue Steel Rail* 8:34
10. Fly Through the Fire* 9:59

czas całkowity: 76:47

muzyka: Pure Phase Ensemble 5
tekst: *Hugo Race, ~Karol Schwarz

www.nasiono.net
www.spacefest.pl

Pure Phase Ensemble 5:
Pure Phase Ensemble 5:
Hugo Race – śpiew, gitara, syntezator
Karol Schwarz (KSAS, 7faz) – śpiew, gitara, faza, elektroniczne bity
Adrian Kondratowicz (Ze Velocipedes) – perkusja
Przemysław Bartoś (The Fruitcakes) – gitara basowa
Paweł Swiernalis (Lord & The Liar) – gitara, chórki
Mateusz Franczak (Daktari) – saksofon
Marta Tykarska (C4030) – trąbka
Michał Peschke (C4030) – perkusjonalia
faza G, faza E – 7faz

nagranie: Marek Iwanowski
miks na żywo: Kamil Hordyniec
mik, produkcja, mastering: Karol Schwarz
koordynator projektu: Anna Szynwelska
okładka: Patryk Hardziej

They did not change a chord

Piąte wcielenie Pure Phase Ensemble postawiło nie zmieniać akordu przez cały koncert. Wydawałoby się, że powieje nudą ale nic z tych rzeczy.

Co prawda większość utworów to niespieszne i rozwlekłe formy ale zespół robi to świadomie: powtarza w nieskończoność jeden akord (One Chord) wierząc, że ma to działanie uzdrawiające, o czym śpiewa Hugo Race.

Trochę statystyk:
PPE5 to najdłuższa płyta w dotychczasowej dyskografii. Prawie 80 minut!
Pierwsza edycja, w której oprócz perkusji (Adrian Kondratowicz) były również perkusjonalia (Michał Peschke). Sekcję rytmiczną wspaniale dopełniał Przemysław Bartoś, ze swoim charakterystycznym, krótko brzmiącym basem, jakby żywcem wziętym z Motown Records (nie ma zamulania).
Pierwsza edycja z kobietą w sekcji dętej (Marta Tykarska).
Pierwsza edycja, w której wszystkie utwory łączą się. Nie ma przerw. W tle leci cały czas faza E lub G (wygenerowana wcześniej przez 7faz)
Pierwsza płyta, którą producent (Karol Schwarz) poleca słuchać, nie od utworu nr1, a od nr4!***

Muzycy PPE5 namawiają tą długą płytą do spowolnienia naszego szalonego tempa życia. Jednak mimo wrażenia, że nie zmienili akordu (tonacji) przez całe 80 minut, to w rzeczywistości zrobili to dwa razy!
Utwory 2-4 są w fazie (tonacji) E
Utwory 1, 5-10 w fazie G

Podsumowując: Hugo Race świetnie poprowadził zespół przez ocean of pure phase waveforms.

***Płyty należy słuchać w opcji REPEAT ALL.

Bądź na bieżąco z Pure Phase Ensemble
Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Soundcloud

7faz / Faza F

Nasiono 79/2016

1. Faza F 17:33

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format: cd-r
sleeve: white unipack on left side. Print: stamps. Booklet included. Handmade, numbered copies (100)
total time: 17:33

FREE UPGRADE to Faza F+A or F+B or F+C or F+D or F+E on one CD-R!
PREMIERE: 21 October 2016

price: 29,99 zl (+ 6 zl costs for shipping inside Poland)

price: 6,99 € (+ 5 € costs for shipping outside Poland)

CREDITS:
music: 7faz
Karol Schwarz (Pure Phase Ensemble, KSAS) – vocal, guitar, phase (faza/phase)
Michał Gos (Oczi Cziorne, Mazzoll & Arhythmic Perfection) – drums
Tomasz Gadecki (Olbrzym i Kurdupel, Band A) – saxophone
Jakub Noga (KSAS, Baden Baden) – sitar
Jowita Cieślikiewicz (Oczi Cziorne) – synthesizers
Szymon Albrzykowski (Szelest Spadajacych Papierkow, Prawatt) – synthesizers
Max Białystok (1926) – bass guitar
Artur Bieszke (KSAS, Walrus Alphabet) – guitar
Piotr Czerski (Morze) – guitar

lyrics: Karol Schwarz

Recorded by Karol Schwarz at Stodoła Na Siano. Sept. 2015, Kaszuby, Poland.
Mixed, produced by Karol Schwarz.

Faza F (Phase F)
The one and only phase in the major key. Sounds like Simple Happy Phase for Christmas.

about 7faz:
Seven is a mystical number. It is a symbol of wholeness, fulfilment and perfection in many mythologies and religions of the world; it symbolises the bond between time and space. It was an attribute of gods, its figure featured in architecture, holy scripts, commandments and cosmology. There were seven virtues, seven sacraments, seven liberal arts and seven bodily “glories” of the blessed in Heaven. But we’re not done yet: there are seven days of the week, seven planets ruling the zodiac, seven rainbow colours and seven crystal systems. Not to mention Seven Samurai and the same amount of The Magnificent. And how many notes are there in music? That’s right, seven.

Now there comes another seven: 7faz – a new project by Tricity (Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia / Poland) musicians associated with Nasiono Records. The project ideally fits the symbolism mentioned above. Why? Because 7faz is a finished wholeness and harmony but simultaneously – it constitutes a building material for something more.

Seven phases may be just listened to, but they also provide building blocks for musicians or DJs. “Phases G and E were used by Pure Phase Ensemble 5 ft Hugo Race during SpaceFest performance. You can hear Phase G in the background of “I’m Gonna Use My Claws” by Asia i Koty. Phases are also used by Projekt Poezja Kulturystyczna (Bodybuliders’ Poetry Project)” – says Karol Schwarz, the initiator and one of the creators of the project.

Seven phases create seven musical spaces recorded on seven separate discs. Each phase usually consists of two parts: tuning (a tranquil, contemplative part) and a trip (a louder part).

Individual phases constitute separate entities but they all interconnect in an unusual way, complement each other, unceasingly swirl around each other and interfere.

Seven days before The Deluge Noah heard: Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal, a male and its mate. And also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. We do not know what Karol Schwarz heard, but the fact is that the musicians he gathered met and recorded in a wooden barn situated in the middle of Kashubian nowhere. Seven kilometres from the nearest village shop. And when it stopped raining – a rainbow of seven colours appeared in the sky…

Released with the financial assistance of the City of Gdansk within the framework of The Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk

more about 7faz: https://nasiono.net/en/album/7faz/

REVIEWS:
* * *

Mordy / homosucker

Nasiono 81/2016

PREMIERE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2016

price: 39,99 zl (+ 6 zl costs for shipping inside Poland)

price: 9,99 € (+ 5 € costs for shipping outside Poland)*
format: cd-audio
cover: unipack (2 wings)
time: 54:44
EDITION: 350 individually stamped copies

 

$:##
lustro grymas samouświęcone oczy baznamiętnie nierozpoznającecień
na plaży w Zoppotach i obóz zagłady
teraz
na dnie lustra … ludzie cienie … na dnie lustra …
je sui sans-papiers …

HOMO SACER “human life … included in the political order in being exposed to an unconditional capacity to be killed” (Giorgio Agamben Homo Sacer 85 )

HOMO SUCKER – “the predominant liberal mode of subjectivity today is Homo sucker: while he tries to exploit and manipulate others, he ends up being the ultimate sucker himself. When we think we are making fun of the ruling ideology, we are merely strengthening its hold over us” (Slavoj Žižek Welcome to the Desert of the Real! 71)

1. Homo Sucker (3:52)
2. Lost It All (5:45)
3. Homo Stator (8:20)
4. Pięść Napięć (6:46)
5. No Other Girl (5:18)
6. Individual (4:04)
7. Za wcześnie (6:25)
8. Western Motel Intro (0:56)
9. Western Motel (3:34)
10. Willow Tree I (6:46)
11. Willow Tree II (2:58)

CREDITS:
Bartłomiej Adamczak – dr
Tomek Bergmann – git, bass, voc, door
Krzysztof Stachura – git, b.voc
V Elisa Rovich – bass, voc, git, samples, keys

words: Welizarowicz (2, 3, 5, 8-11), Welizarowicz/Bergmann (1, 4, 6, 7)
music: Wellzarowicz (5, 8), Welizarowicz/Bergmann (1, 2, 6, 11), Adamczak//Bergmann/Stachura/Welizarowicz (3, 4, 7, 9, 10)

Guests:
Tomasz Gadecki – br sax (Willow Tree I)
Mariusz Noskowiak – dr overdub (Individual)
Izabela ‘Izes’ Sawicka – voc (Homo Sucker, Individual)
Alex Schroeder – b.voc (Individual)
Filip Szatarski – voc (Lost it All)

Recorded in July 2012 at the Adam Juniewicz Studio, Sopot.
Produced by V Elisa Rovich & Tomasz Bergmann
Recorded by V Elisa Rovich for Sulejmanije
Mixed and mastered by Marcin Dymiter
Mixdown by Cezary Joczyn & Marcin Dymiter
Tech support by Lech Niezabitowski
Photography by Tomek Bergmann
Cover design by Edyta Majewska

“Lost It All” originally composed by Welizarowicz for Jakub II (June 2011) by Filip Szatarski, Bergmann and Welizarowicz. “Western Motel” dedicated to Doug Smith, Western Winds Motel, Española, NM.

Plunderphonics: “Willow Tree I” contains adapted samples from Arnold Schoenberg, The Fall, and others. “Western Motel” contains adapted samples from “Turtle Dance Song” performed by Peter and Cipriano Garcia, San Juan Pueblo Turtle Dance Songs audio cassette rec. by Danny Lichtenfeld in San Juan Pueblo, NM on December 20, 1994.
Special thanks to Marcin Dymiter, Bard Adamczak, Wojtek “Gigant” Michałowski.

© & ℗ Sulejmanije/Mordy Records
www.facebook.com/mordyrock
℗ Nasiono Records 81/2016

 

Zrealizowano przy pomocy finansowej Województwa Pomorskiego.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7faz / Faza E

Nasiono 78/2016

1. Faza E cz.1 14:06
2. Faza E cz.2 14:54
3. Faza E cz.3 Sound Around Song 09:15

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format: cd-r
sleeve: white unipack on left side. Print: stamps. Booklet included. Handmade, numbered copies (100)
total time: 38:15

FREE UPGRADE to Faza E+A or E+B or E+C or E+D on one CD-R!
PREMIERE: 23 September 2016

 

price: 29,99 zl (+ 6 zl costs for shipping inside Poland)

price: 6,99 € (+ 5 € costs for shipping outside Poland)

CREDITS:
music: 7faz
Karol Schwarz (Pure Phase Ensemble, KSAS) – vocal, guitar, phase (faza/phase)
Michał Gos (Oczi Cziorne, Mazzoll & Arhythmic Perfection) – drums
Tomasz Gadecki (Olbrzym i Kurdupel, Band A) – saxophone
Jakub Noga (KSAS, Baden Baden) – sitar
Jowita Cieślikiewicz (Oczi Cziorne) – synthesizers
Szymon Albrzykowski (Szelest Spadajacych Papierkow, Prawatt) – synthesizers
Max Białystok (1926) – bass guitar
Artur Bieszke (KSAS, Walrus Alphabet) – guitar
Piotr Czerski (Morze) – guitar

lyrics: Karol Schwarz

Recorded by Karol Schwarz at Stodoła Na Siano. Sept. 2015, Kaszuby, Poland.
Mixed, produced by Karol Schwarz.

Faza E (phase E)

cz.1
A drone with a background story told through the saxophone mouthpiece, so hard to understand.
Previously used during the Pure Phase Ensemble ft. Hugo Race concert at SpaceFest 2015 (album release: 21 Sept)

cz.2
An electronic trance beat comes along. Gos supports it with his modest drums. Schwarz shares his 80 shrooms. A neat saxophone part.

cz.3
Sound Around Song – motoric Krautrock. A song. The first but not the last in the series of 7faz.

about 7faz:
Seven is a mystical number. It is a symbol of wholeness, fulfilment and perfection in many mythologies and religions of the world; it symbolises the bond between time and space. It was an attribute of gods, its figure featured in architecture, holy scripts, commandments and cosmology. There were seven virtues, seven sacraments, seven liberal arts and seven bodily “glories” of the blessed in Heaven. But we’re not done yet: there are seven days of the week, seven planets ruling the zodiac, seven rainbow colours and seven crystal systems. Not to mention Seven Samurai and the same amount of The Magnificent. And how many notes are there in music? That’s right, seven.

Now there comes another seven: 7faz – a new project by Tricity (Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia / Poland) musicians associated with Nasiono Records. The project ideally fits the symbolism mentioned above. Why? Because 7faz is a finished wholeness and harmony but simultaneously – it constitutes a building material for something more.

Seven phases may be just listened to, but they also provide building blocks for musicians or DJs. “Phases G and E were used by Pure Phase Ensemble 5 ft Hugo Race during SpaceFest performance. You can hear Phase G in the background of “I’m Gonna Use My Claws” by Asia i Koty. Phases are also used by Projekt Poezja Kulturystyczna (Bodybuliders’ Poetry Project)” – says Karol Schwarz, the initiator and one of the creators of the project.

Seven phases create seven musical spaces recorded on seven separate discs. Each phase usually consists of two parts: tuning (a tranquil, contemplative part) and a trip (a louder part).

Individual phases constitute separate entities but they all interconnect in an unusual way, complement each other, unceasingly swirl around each other and interfere.

Seven days before The Deluge Noah heard: Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal, a male and its mate. And also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. We do not know what Karol Schwarz heard, but the fact is that the musicians he gathered met and recorded in a wooden barn situated in the middle of Kashubian nowhere. Seven kilometres from the nearest village shop. And when it stopped raining – a rainbow of seven colours appeared in the sky…

Released with the financial assistance of the City of Gdansk within the framework of The Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk

more about 7faz: https://nasiono.net/en/album/7faz/

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7faz / Faza D

Nasiono 77/2016

1. Faza D     14:10

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Faza D
The morning has lifted the fog over fields and meadows. Smoke from a burning-out bonfire is rising straight into the azure sky speckled with cirrocumuli approaching from the west. Nobody knows yet that a dark blue cumulonimbus, as huge as a cathedral, is lurking behind the horizon. Everybody already knows that instruments don’t need people to play.

CREDITS:
music composed by 7faz
Karol Schwarz (Pure Phase Ensemble, KSAS) – guitar, phase (faza/phase)
Michał Gos (Oczi Cziorne, Mazzoll & Arhythmic Perfection) – drums
Tomasz Gadecki (Olbrzym i Kurdupel, Band A) – saxophone
Jakub Noga (KSAS, Baden Baden) – sitar
Jowita Cieślikiewicz (Oczi Cziorne) – synthesizers
Szymon Albrzykowski (Szelest Spadajacych Papierkow, Prawatt) – synthesizers
Max Białystok (1926) – bass guitar
Artur Bieszke (KSAS, Walrus Alphabet) – guitar
Piotr Czerski (Morze) – guitar

about 7faz:
Seven is a mystical number. It is a symbol of wholeness, fulfilment and perfection in many mythologies and religions of the world; it symbolises the bond between time and space. It was an attribute of gods, its figure featured in architecture, holy scripts, commandments and cosmology. There were seven virtues, seven sacraments, seven liberal arts and seven bodily “glories” of the blessed in Heaven. But we’re not done yet: there are seven days of the week, seven planets ruling the zodiac, seven rainbow colours and seven crystal systems. Not to mention Seven Samurai and the same amount of The Magnificent. And how many notes are there in music? That’s right, seven.

Now there comes another seven: 7faz – a new project by Tricity (Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia / Poland) musicians associated with Nasiono Records. The project ideally fits the symbolism mentioned above. Why? Because 7faz is a finished wholeness and harmony but simultaneously – it constitutes a building material for something more.

Seven phases may be just listened to, but they also provide building blocks for musicians or DJs. “Phases G and E were used by Pure Phase Ensemble 5 ft Hugo Race during SpaceFest performance. You can hear Phase G in the background of “I’m Gonna Use My Claws” by Asia i Koty. Phases are also used by Projekt Poezja Kulturystyczna (Bodybuliders’ Poetry Project)” – says Karol Schwarz, the initiator and one of the creators of the project.

Seven phases create seven musical spaces recorded on seven separate discs. Each phase usually consists of two parts: tuning (a tranquil, contemplative part) and a trip (a louder part).

Individual phases constitute separate entities but they all interconnect in an unusual way, complement each other, unceasingly swirl around each other and interfere.

Seven days before The Deluge Noah heard: Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal, a male and its mate. And also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. We do not know what Karol Schwarz heard, but the fact is that the musicians he gathered met and recorded in a wooden barn situated in the middle of Kashubian nowhere. Seven kilometres from the nearest village shop. And when it stopped raining – a rainbow of seven colours appeared in the sky…

 

Released with the financial assistance of the City of Gdansk within the framework of The Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk

more about 7faz: https://nasiono.net/en/album/7faz/

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