Staś Czekalski - Przygody (Mondoj) [New Age / Experimental]
- The Slow Music Movement
- Mar 3, 2024
- 1 min read
Overly cynical or doom scrolled into perpetual fear & pessimism? This child eyed debut & utopian flight of fancy from Poland's Staś Czekalski, enabled by the psychedelic researchers at Warsaw's Mondoj might help. It's a double dosed, serotonin reuptake inhibiting capsule of musical magic realism, that conjures child eyed visions of beaming New Age disciples swaying & twirling to an experimental ambient exotica orchestra on a tropical beach. Therapy never sounded so good.
What The Release Notes Say:
The title of Staś Czekalski’s debut translates as ‘Adventures’. It’s fitting for an album that invokes feelings of exploring, roaming, ambling through bustling cities and changing seasons, around castles and swaying fields, down the pixelated paths of old computer games, and all the way home.
We get the sense of being on some carefree yet critical quest, with Staś taking on the role of narrator as much as composer. Part fable, part Moomins, part seek and you shall find, these boppy, wide-eyed and reflective tracks set imagination in motion.
These are sonic adventures in a more literal sense too, at once quietly bold and intricately arranged. Bouncing around a playful gamut of references, from the whimsically lo-fi electro-acoustic pop of Anne Laplantine through trip-hoppy bedroom ambient and indietronica, Staś sets this blend twinkling with his singular form of magical thinking.
"Thank you to Kasia and Mikołaj for their contribution, to Natalia for the text, and to all my friends who listened to this album and helped me shape it, especially Mateusz, Mikołaj, Ola, Szymon and Wojtek!"
Saska Kępa, Warszawa, 2023
