OWN ALBUMS
This LP is published by Crossroads Centre.
It is available to purchase here: rozdroza.com/en/sklep/
Listen here on Bandcamp
This duo, Andrzej Karalow and Jérôme Noetinger, is the brainchild of Grzegorz Paluch, who had the idea of bringing together the piano, the subtle phrasing and harmonic interplay of the former with the magnetic and electronic tentacles of the latter. The piano metamorphoses in the cogs of the tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror. It’s a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.
Jérôme Noetinger – Revox B77, electronics
Andrzej Karałow – piano, Roland space echo
Recorded at Andrzej Karałow’s home studio, May 2024.
Recording, mix, and mastering by Igor Szymański.
Double bassist Joëlle Léandre and pianist Andrzej Karałow and, two exceptional improvisers, introduce FLINT – an album born from raw, spontaneous expression. Like the flint it is named after, it ignites moments of warmth, intensity, and transformation. Their interplay, both subtle and explosive, allows sound to organically unfold in real time. FLINT is an open invitation to experience music at its most elemental.
The album was recorded in S4 Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw, Poland.
Joëlle Léandre – double bass
Andrzej Karałow – piano
Igor Szymański – recording, editing, mix, master
Listen [Streaming]: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jollelandreandrzejkaraow/flint
Link to label: http://ensemblage.pl/index.php/label/
Chamber recital with music by W. Lutosławski, G. Crumb, B. Bartók, O. Messiaen
Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera – violin
Andrzej Karałow – piano
The music we hear on this album, very consciously structured into a sensitive story (as evidenced by specific pieces and names), is ‘natural in its hunger’: it is simply life. When thinking about the (re)creative process of performance, we often forget that the score is a secondary record of music—it is not that music is its epilogue. Music was first, and Wasiucionek and Karałow remind us of this fact. Their performance is organic, ‘testing gravity’, as far as the virtuosity, interpretation, tone colours, and energy are concerned. However, whenever we deal with a living organism, there is, like its colourful halo, a glowing rim—the mystery of what is ‘beyond’.
Monographic album with works for mixed ensembles
Messages Quartet / proMODERN vocal sextet / Chromatophonic Trio / Agnieszka Podłucka / Chopin University Chamber Orchestra / Rafał Janiak
Inspired by the phenomenon of landscapes, I try to discover my own musical language through penetrating and fathoming visual, multi-layered sceneries. By connecting music with synesthesia, I want to reach a unique connection of sound, its colour, and time. The best link-symbol to observe the paradox of variability and permanency of landscapes is journey. Earth, physical land, tectonic layers, colours – all of these elements connect with spiritual aspect of steadiness and unpredictability. Improvisation – which is also important for me in the context of musical creation – as musical element and technique, symbolizes in my music a wandering through internal sound landscapes, merging everything into a single, organic whole.
Landscape, space, colour, sound, light, shadow – these are the elements that inspire my imagination. The complexity of landscape – often understood symbolically or abstractly – triggers many factors related to the shaping of sound material and its colour and of the sound structure itself. The phenomenon of landscape and its dynamic variability inspires me with its unpredictability and diverse layers.
TSE – Trójmiejska Scena Elektroakustyczna
Double Acts 5:
Andrzej Karałow | Katarzyna Karpowicz
Double Acts 6
Mateusz Klimek | Dariusz Mazurowski
Nagrano 17.01 i 21.02.2025 w Inaczej Niż w Raju
Miks/mastering: A. Puczyński (DA 5), D. Mazurowski (DA 6 )
Logo TSE i typografia: Katarzyna Podpora
*TSE Double Acts w Inaczej Niż w Raju to cykl spotkań muzycznych w formule improwizujących duetów, złożonych z artystów i artystek reprezentujących Trójmiejską Scenę Elektroakustyczną
* Trójmiejska Scena Elektroakustyczna (TSE) to grupa twórców i twórczyń
zajmujących się szeroko rozumianą muzyką elektroakustyczną i pokrewnymi dziedzinami, jak field recording czy instalacja dźwiękowa, rezydujących w Trójmieście i okolicach.