Karolina Rec is a part of the offstream music scene in Poland for some time now, to the point that she appears also in more mainstream surroundings. The school-educated cellist is well-known for her experiments with neoclassical music and those are very well visible on her new album called Speechless.
In her career, Rec collaborated with and supported so many top-shelf artists, both Polish and international, that it is pointless to list them here. She has left her mark on the experimental music scene here already and she seems ready to make it even more visible. Speechless has very little left from the artist's neoclassical background with a lot of attention put on the industrial and noisy atmosphere with some exceptionally ethereal elements, most notably the heavy use of choir singing. This makes the album both dark and unnerving as well as airy and beautiful. Those worlds collide in Resina's music very often, for example when the war-like drums take over the soothing choir singing in Failed Myth Simulation or when in Manic the cello sounds coexist with very brutal noise.
Although, as the album's title suggests, the release is solely instrumental, its main theme is to "explore ideas about language, the voice and the unpredictability of nature" (like in Darwin's finches, the birds that are a perfect example of said unpredictability). This album that shows music from very different parts of the calm/noisy spectrum, seems to be a good commentary on the nature and language's complicated, not to say experimental, ways.
Speechless costs 11 EUR (9 GBP).
Check: Failed Myth Simulation
Country: Poland
Genre: choral industrial electronica
Label: 130701
