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Tomasz Bednarczyk




Summer Feelings There’s an exquisiteness that dominates much of Tomasz Bednarczyk debut release for Room40 Summer Feelings. Whilst the title might suggest uplifting rafts of melody and shimmering texture baked in the sun - Bednarczyk’s summers are experienced in Poland and ultimately tempered by snowy winters. With this tempering comes a sensibility to his compositions that creates a deeply personal impression of summer through sound.

Longing piano passages, akin to those found on Eno’s ambient masterpieces, are edited and washed with various processes. As the release unfolds, the details of the subdued field recordings come to the fore, creating a depth to his work.

Utilising restrained almost fragile aesthetics, Bednarczyk goes about documenting various ‘holiday stories’ and events which find new meaning in the ears of the listener. An album
dense with emotive spatial character and powerful imagined narrative.

BIOGRAPHY.
Tomasz Bednarczyk was born in 1986. He is a young musician and sound artist living in Wroclaw. He presently studies pedagogy. Since 2004 he has been writing compositions presenting new, pop qualities through his fragile sounds. He makes melancholy impressions on the basis of acoustic loops and surrounding, outward sounds.

Out March 31st 2008.

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"Born in 1986, Bednarczyk is a young sound artist living in Wroclaw, Poland. These pieces representant an "imagined narrative" based on experiences of Polish summertime, which is never quite free of the East European winter. And so "Vacation", with its simple, resonant, Harold Budd-like piano offest by a shower o fractured glitch, is like staring wistfully out of a window watching the raindrops form on the plane during an autumn shower. "Sad Man On The Train" may well be a conscious reference to the Marcel Duchamp painting (almost) the same name, and is certainly suspended in a similar light, with mobility and melancholy. The distant chatter of "Irritation" breaks up the slightly limited sound palette of the album as a whole, which in its reflectiveness and restraint shows great promise."
THE WIRE (David Stubbs)

"An engaging and enticing release from a promising young artist, working magic from an economy of means." White Line

"Summer Feelings is a beautifully quaint, cordial exercise in gorgeous melancholy and a stunning debut for Room40 by an exciting new (to me), young artist." Forest Gospel

"It's amazing the wonderful varieties of beautiful and poignant electronic music that is being released these days especially from innovative, relatively new artists. I'll have to include Tomasz Bednarczyk and his exquisitely fragile and affecting new digital-only album Summer Feelings as an exceptional paradigm of such artists and their works - 10/10" Earlabs

Related ROOM40 titles:
Janek Schaefer - 'In the Last Hour'
Lawrence English - 'Ghost Towns'
For Barry Ray - 'New Days'

Thomasz Bednarczyk - Summer Feelings
Tomasz Bednarczyk