{"title":"Stara Rzeka","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"stara-rzeka-zamknely-sie-oczy-ziemi-2cd","title":"Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi 2CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eStara Rzeka's second (and last) album is entitled \"Zamknęły się oczy ziemi\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album will see the light of day as 2-disc box with a vinyl version to follow later this year. It was recorded by Kuba Ziołek himself with additional help from Innercity Ensemble's Radek Dziubek, Wojciech Jachna and Jacek Buhl. The artwork will be created by Agnieszka Zwara who visualized Stara Rzeka's debut \"Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some of those songs had been composed even before the debut album was released\" - says Ziołek. \"I managed to gather a lot of music during those two years but I had some problems concentrating on Stara Rzeka, mainly because of my activities in other bands. And so this album lay shelved for over a year.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose familiar with \"Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem\" won't feel disappointed with the new songs. \"You won't find many stylistic changes here\" - explains Ziołek. \"There's still a lot of sadness, long sounds, glitches and distortions. But I also wanted to record some compositions with a clearer and more direct structures. Those are also more personal, dealing with issues of loneliness, peace of mind, chaos, death and happiness. If there's one thought that lies behind them, it's explained in the quote from Stanisław Lem's 'Fiasko' included in the album booklet. Courageous beauty unveils where there's no business. It's a short and simple thought\" - he adds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the new songs are based on motives from Alberta Ayler's, Pharaoh Sanders' and Moondog's compositions. \"In the first track on the album I play a certain melody that I later realised comes from one of Moondog's songs. As for Ayler and Sanders - I haven't listened to them for a long time but theirs were the only records I had at home then and at first I wanted to cut some samples and just loop them into a guitar track played on four amps and a buddha machine. As you can see it's more of a play with sound, not a grand scheme on my side\" - says Ziołek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuckily, Stara Rzeka's finale doesn't mean that Ziołek will abandon performing under this moniker. 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However, this new iteration of the project is intended to open a completely new chapter—both aesthetically and conceptually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\"As with everything I do, it's more about affect than a deliberate decision, the feeling that something has sprouted on its own,\" says Ziołek. \"At some point, a vision of the aesthetic, sound, and atmosphere I want to achieve crystallized in my head, and after acquiring some technical proficiency in realizing this vision, new songs practically began to emerge on their own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe album \"Get Out of My House\" also marks a return to the project's roots—but on new terms. Ziołek redefines its core, which has always revolved around broadly defined folk, now taking the form of something the artist calls \"imagined folk\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\"For me, the core of Stara Rzeka has been broadly defined as folk music (...). I wondered for a while whether the new version of Stara Rzeka would have anything to do with folk at all, and whether it even mattered, until I finally decided I wanted to create 'imagined' folk, untethered to any specific place or time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe album \"Get Out of My House,\" heralding a new chapter in \"imagined folk,\" promises to be the most personal and simultaneously most conceptual installment of Stara Rzeka. 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