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Review: Derek Piotr – Making And Then Unmaking

Review: Derek Piotr – Making And Then Unmaking

BANDCAMP. “Things I hold onto make me want to change, but the more I change the more I find myself holding on,” sings Piotr during “Invisible Map”, his voice perched on a fingerplucked guitar that curls in like an autumn leaf. While exemplary of the album’s affection for a

Radio: Resonance Extra – Episode 23 (02/06/2019)

A selection of new exploratory music, accompanied by the artists talking about how they knew their track was completed. TRACKLIST Enablers – Bill, In Consideration – 2019 p.vivax – Kettle – 2019 Mira Martin-Gray – Kissing Infinity – 2019 Furchick – Pretty Cricket – 2019 Rosa Anschütz – Rigid – 2019 Dalot – Beirut (Dust Fall) – 2019 Tsone – A

Review: Derek Piotr – Forest People Pop

When the voice passes through auto-tune, it is corrected. Intention and execution are brought into seamless parallel. Deviations are either snapped back into line or solidified into decisive and angular turns, stripping away those ambiguous wobbles of vibrato that ultimately swerve neither this way nor that. Of course, this is

Interview: Derek Piotr

Interview: Derek Piotr

Derek Piotr is a Poland-born composer currently based in New England. His work centres on the use of the human voice (decorated with undulating beats and faint melodic traces), and his upcoming record Bahar adopts a more forthright, pop-derived approach to the presentation of his vocal than ever before. The

Review: Derek Piotr - Tempatempat

On Tempatempat, time is sliding across itself. The beats are fierce – the rumble of loose skin and guttural resonance bins, like the feet and bellows of animal deities – and they count seconds passing with the rigidity of a clock hand, snapping from one moment to the next with a deliberate

Review: Derek Piotr - Raj

Raj stands like a totem pole, its core elements (marching bass drum thumps, aggressive synthesisers, chopped up vocal moans) stacked towards the sky. It’s a meditation on a solitary vision – a sort of vertical liberation that arises from its insistence on reprising the same sonic arrangement over and over