Tomasz Bednarczyk - So Nice EP
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A beautiful in its quietness release from one of the most promising and acclaimed young Polish audio artists.
Tomasz Bednarczyk was born in 1986 and currently lives in Polish city of Wroclaw.
His music is nice, delightful and harmonic in click'n'cut style.
"So Nice" is an EP consisting of four stories about positive emotions and things that accompany them in life.
Each story is build upon different acoustic sounds. Looping clicks and noises are supposed to touch the listeners in different ways, calling out different emotions.
The whole album is very easing and harmonic, delicately seductive. Try it, you won't regret...
Listen:
Download:
1. So Nice (mp3, 6 MB)
2. Snow (mp3, 4 MB)
3. Tender (mp3, 5 MB)
4. Love (mp3, 6 MB)
Artworks:
download artworks:
front cover artwork
back cover artwork
all tracks + artworks in a .zip file
other download options at archive.org
written and produced by Tomasz Bednarczyk
guitar sounds on So Nice by Tomasz Bien (At Home)
photo by Cezary Stolecki
Wroclaw, Poland, July-August 2006
All content of this site (including audio files) is available under Creative Commons license.
REVIEWS:
The four beautiful sound-sculptures of his 'So Nice EP' for Netlabel Audiotong are nonpoint memories of a hot summer in the country, or, if you’re facing the artwork, at the seaside.
Opening track 'So Nice' is made from looped and layered acoustic guitars. Tomasz forces his samples to cough and stumble without digital clipping, introduces single chords and adds harmonic patterns. Every now and then, simple melodies can be heard until they fade back into the delay. There’s a strong sense of melancholia in the composition but due to the loose sound design, 'So Nice' never gets too florid or kitschy. 'Snow' at number two is quite similar, though Toms’ influences become a bit more evident. The straight loop makes you think of certain Krautrock-bands, another comparison might be the early music of Marsen Jules. The track is strong but unfortunately far too short. Often I catch myself to wish that the music lasts, but this time two minutes really really ain’t enough.
'Tender' sounds different to the first two songs. Bednarczyk explores the possibilities of Electroacoustic improvisation and plays around with smooth sinus tones along to reverberated scraping and rasping. But his field-recording are a bit too evident to bear a secret and too unobtrusive to catch your attention. Final composition 'Love' closes the EP with a dubby and crackling good-night farewell. With deadbeat Rhodes and delicate filtered synthesizers, Tomasz Bendnarczyk closes ranks to artists like Pole and Jan Jelinek. No big harmonies, still a pleasant last dance.
(Sven Swift, earlabs.org)