Another release from our friends at Attenuation Circuit is this mini-album by Zürich based Polish-born Kalina Solarek. In 18 minutes divided over six tracks, she experiments with rhythms, electronics and her electric guitar. She studied jazz / electric guitar but currently works as an architect and we all know she’s not the first architect who does experimental music. I mean, maybe there is something with spatial aspects and the urge to construct that gets triggered. Maybe a sidetone far, far away, but has there ever been research on which professions experimental musicians have who can’t live off their music? That would be interesting, I think (just throwing it into the world).
But, back to Kalina. As said, her primary instrument is an electric guitar, and that’s audible on ‘DAS’. The opening track, ‘View From Above’, consists of a looped guitar melody where distortion is added to create all kinds of harmonic structures. The second track, ‘Football Fans in Altstetten’, is built on a rhythmic structure/fundament where ambient layers based on sustained guitar sounds create a pleasant experience. The third track, “OTR”, is an experiment with rhythm and noise, and right after that ‘OTN’ is a combination of rhythm and melody/bass line with supported noisy sounds that again seem to originate from a feedbacking guitar. It reminded me of a few things I have heard from the (K-RAA-K)³ label. There, too, you would get stuff you never expected.
The most paradoxical track of this release is ‘6:35’, which is 3:38 in length. The time signature here reminds me a bit of old-school electronic body music. Yet again, where old-school EBM was mainly electronic, here, too, the main instrument is the electric guitar—done tastefully and, in the end, noisy as f***. ‘Collision with Aliens’ closes this release with an excellent rhythmic structure and, from what I could recognize, the only whole electronic track on here. Maybe a few sounds here and there are guitar-based… But the track never becomes as heavily guitar-driven as the previous tracks. Welcome to the world of experimental music, Kalina!
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