Young Poland musician Tomasz Bednarczyk is best known for his Milipop-moniker. Milipop is cozy Electronica with nice melodies and home-grown beats from IDM to Minimal House. His highly acclaimed debut S.M.I.L.E. is released at ETA, another album is still waiting for a proper label.
Due to the slightly more traditional music of Milipop, Tom started composing with a more experimental, yet emotional purpose. 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. You can’t remember the details, but the feeling lasts forever.
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.
Get the record here: So Nice EP
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