TEN YEARS GONE

STRANGE POP is intended as a tribute album to the time of analog instruments, to raw recording; it is Michał DZIADOSZ, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist of the group ILUZJON whose existence I knew with 'No Phantoms In' who is at the helm; he is accompanied by three great guitarists, Michal WOJTAS from AMAROK, Michal KIRMUC from COLLAGE (whose CD I am impatiently awaiting) and Maciej SOCHON; he offers vintage progressive rock from the 70s on PINK FLOYD, SOFT MACHINE, TANGERINE DREAM and LUNATIC SOUL, which shows that prog rock is alive and well in Poland. Let's get comfortable to see what level of regression we will be able to fall on this nostalgic vintage album.

'Quiet Storm' kicks off this atmospheric album that made me want to chronicle just for the PINK FLOYD sound; hovering over the synths, a guitar ' la GILMOUR which tears up the notes, perfect. "Goodbye Song" on a variation of 'Animals', 2nd title where it is Michal of AMAROK who holds the soli; the vocals in reverberation, haunting, gripping, allowing to raise the emotion until this solo more RIIS or GILMOUR than you are dying, maybe Steven WILSON simply! An electronic rhythm while crescendo.

'Ex Oriente Lux' arrives on the wind, a soaring sound that Mariusz could have created; on the edge between his personal works, the sound of LUNATIC SOUL and that more recognizable of the master KITARO or KITAJIMA for the soothing flute, a refreshing electronic flight. 'Night Trip' continues with the presence of Maciej from SEASONAL on guitar; what if the symbolic presence of the melancholy RIVERSIDE makes itself felt? Rock art in its psychedelic, laconic and meditative conception that sends our minds wandering on the sharp and inhospitable slopes of our repressed dreams. The bass beat reinforces this idea, the slide guitar, the warm voice of Michal setting the spleen decor.

"432 Bars" for the river title, the least creative in my opinion with an obvious plunge between TANGERINE DREAM, ASH RA TEMPEL and KLAUS SCHULZE; an archaic sound, a declination of malodorous primary notes with an effective spleen to slip into one's armchair on a moonless evening; repetitive absolute vintage to forget time, space, its own presence. The title to tame according to its concentration and its imaginative space, the title where it will be necessary to think of not drowning under the deluge of vague memories and where the final rise gives shivers; less creative but deeply drug-vintage.

'All This Hope' for the radio edit title, let me explain: short, dancing, sung, a Floydian melody for the sound, ELOY for the rhythm; harmonious unpretentious title that allows you to come back to earth in 2022. Title that highlights Michal (again) from COLLAGE.

STANGE POP is therefore Michal for bass, flute, keyboards and percussion for a spatial journey in the psychedelic era of the 70's. A pure sound without artifice, a dark and sober air on musical creation, original music synthesized for 10 years, made to make us travel free of charge in the prog space. STRANGE POP releases a simple album providing a myriad of personal ideas for which you have the solution.