“Cosmospir”is a debut album from Polish singer/improviser and composer, India Czajkowska.Her music overturns categories through a fluid blend of classical instruments,experimental vocal technique and electronic spectrum arrangements.
The dark alchemic laboratory in a deserted factory, the walls of which are breathing still with industrial noise. The space is sinking into strange sacral whispers and through the broken panes birds are flying in. The roar of the wind and the dripping of raindrops. From this mosaic of sounds the golden ringing of voice appears,cutting the thick air. This abstract landscape came to me from the sounds of the Cosmospir album.This is music for those who aren’t afraid to plunge into the deep, and sometimes, even dark areas of their own soul. Especially for those who love to travel far away, without going out, just focused on listening to fascinating sounds.
Joanna Kasztelaniec
The combination of classicaly trained vocals and atmospheric contemporary electronica is gaining ground. After Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard hit it offon the massive and controversially received double album “Faiscape” (on Synthetic Symphony) and Ambient Drone master Alio Die joined forces with temptress Martina Galvagni on the blissful “Eleusian Lullaby” (Projekt Records), Alio Die’s Stefano Musso’s is now presenting a fresh face and promising new voice to the scene on his Hic Sunt Leones imprint. Even though India Czajkowska has been a steady creative force in her native
“It's an attempt to call the deepest, intimate layers of the psyche,one's own internal space related to time, bringing narrative in an invented but individual language”. DM Schneider describes the album in his introductory words, “It's a way of breaking through to a hidden side, where we can get to know ourselves and the invisible mist surrounding 'reality'. Behind this mist there is an open space and we have much more to do with it than with anything in (our) everyday existence, even though we’ve just realised it there.”
Extracts from “Cosmospir” confirm the suspicion that India Czajkowska has used the years wisely, establishing a confident style of her own, which nonetheless offers plenty of obvious associations. Remarkably, her intricately detailed dream ballads never stray too deeply into the dark, instead giving off an optimistic radiant glow. Even her slow, simmering beats always seem to march forward instead of passively marking time. As a result, her debut points to a future that is as delectably melancholic as it is determinedly bright.
“Cosmospir”by India Czajkowska is limited to 300 copies.
byTobias Fischer, www.tokafi.com
India Czajkowska is something of a veteran in the Polish experimental (post-classical?)music scene, but this album represents her first ever solo recording. It conjures a dark but airy musical world, working into the listener’s conscious at various levels, some almost subliminal.
Czajkowska utilises reverb and delay to excellent effect on this release. Often you can hear,echoing out in the distance, drones, instruments, layered voices, clattering percussion. It creates a very evocative atmosphere, dark and watery. I cannot help but think of the symbol of the swamp in old European folklore – a dangerous, uncanny place, filled with mystery and beauty.
On the whole the music is quite laid-back, not overly forceful, and although it canbe a little unsettling at times if you are tuned in closely, it also hovers comfortably in the background of everyday activities. In this respect the album strikes a difficult balance – it is neither limp nor overwrought. For avant garde experimentalism such as this, I think that’s quite a feat.
This is a release to take your time with in order to fully savour the many flavour sand scents of its unfolding. A very impressive first step for India Czajkowska’s solo career.
Henry Lauer / heathenharvest.com
"Cosmospir is a kind of precious extract made of classical instuments' sound, piano, cello, voice, guitar, flute, in an assistance of the electronic spectrum. Only this? It's an attempt to call the deepest, intimate layers of psyche, one's own internal space related to time, bringing the narrative in an invented but individual language. It's a way of breaking through to a hidden side, where we can get known ourselves and invisible mist surrounding 'reality'. Behind this mist there is an open space and we have much more to do with it than with anything of everyday commonplaceness, even though just here we could realised it... " (dmsch)