Robert Piotrowicz - Rurokura And Eastern European Folk Music Research Volume 2 download free

"This is a wonderfully strange little release, three all-too-brief pieces, each based (one assumes) on archive recordings of folk music, as their titles would seem to indicate: "Greek Catholic Stork Boy Choir Of Ozerki Village (Soldiers' Meeting, Autumn 1967)", "Molomotki Ocarina Orchestra (Open Air Show, Spring 1928)", "School Girl Band Of Gromovaya Balka (Performed On 10th Anniversary Of Death Of Emil Cioran)" – though you'll have quite a hard time trying to spot the originals in Piotrowicz's treatments. The disc is supposed to played at 45rpm, I read, but as usual I screwed up first time I played it and stuck it on at 33 (it's better at the faster speed, for sure, but has a certain torpid charm when played slower..). The two tracks on side one take tiny fragments and loop them hypnotically – one wishes they'd develop more, or at least go on a bit longer, but alas no. The B-side ("Funeral") is more leisurely, and a richer listening experience. It's a ghostly affair, vaguely reminiscent of Oren Ambarchi but replacing the warm glow of the Australian dusk by a hard frost on a winter morning in Poland. Cioran, you may recall, is Asmus Tietchens' favourite philosopher / poet, and there's something of Tietchens' inscrutability to this music. I seem to have missed out on Volume One – and hope there are further volumes to come, and maybe a full-length CD on Piotrowicz's splendid Musica Genera label at some stage? Live in hope" by Dan Walburton ( Paris Transatlantic Feb 2010 )