
music: India Czajkowska (track from "Cosmospir" album) realisation: Gamid Ibadullayev butoh / butō: Sylwia Hanff www.myspace.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 listeners conscious at various levels, some almost subliminal. Centre-stage is taken by is Czajkowskas voice. Her classical training has informed her technique to a very high standard but thankfully without reducing her performance to the empty execution of formalism. Theres a sultry, dangerous energy to her singing, her voice often sinuous and low to the ground like a predatory serpent. Her vocals, particularly when she hovers in the thrilling lower cadences of her range, are sensual, but deadly; at other times, lighter, more buoyant. She is able to seduce her listeners ears into a wide range of emotions and imaginal worlds. At times the vocals become more strident, urgent and forceful; at other times more pensive, distant, washed out. In addition to her almost kinaesthetic singing, Czajkowska is more than happy to experiment with all kind of vocal noise-making, though always in a tasteful and subtle fashion. Her brand of experimentation has a deep sensibility this is not just vocal shock tactics unleashed for superficial effect. Her vocals are set against her own idiosyncratic and angular piano work, as well as some exquisitely <b>...</b>
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