Szymon Kaliski - for isolated recollections (2011, Hibernate)

One year after his debut album "Out of Forgetting" on Audiomoves, Szymon Kaliski is back with a new ep on Hibernate. It is a nice achievement to join such label for a second release.

It is not just the follow-up to his debut album. There was something still green with "Out of forgetting", a few hesitant steps, but full of innocence, emotion and intensity, a work in progress, surprisingly and disarmingly strong at times, but not made for becoming a classic album, mostly givings hints of a mastered expression yet to come and setting up a personnal challenge for him a kind of double or nothing.

Szymon Kaliski - out of forgetting (2010, Audiomoves)

Is it a Polish sensitivity like there is an Australian one or a Japanese one. The temptation to draw links with Tomasz Bednarczyk or So Quiet, or even here to a movie like "The Double Life of Veronique", is strong and maybe a too easy shortcut for a reviewer but I can't resist with the austerity, the use of electronic piano and a sense of electronic abstraction and a feeling of winter which are somewhat shared.