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Polish composer Martyna Basta follows up her well-received label debut Making Eye Contact With Solitude, with her first vinyl release Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering on Warm Winters Ltd. It's a multi-instrumental ambient album conjuring scenes from the blurry edge of memory. Martyna Basta uses guitar, zither, processed field recordings and voice to render abstract, compelling images, finding beauty in uncertainty.

PR:
"Music that moves through the air like leaves falling to the ground. There's a powerful sense in this music of embedding in surroundings..." – The Quietus

"A study of loneliness, a fascinating picture of pandemic reality. The young artist weaves her compositions from various elements: field recordings, sounds of the violin, zither, and harpsichord, at one point even interwoven with delicate vocals." – The Quietus

"...engages with the (e)motion of field recordings and voice — Martyna Basta responds to the movement of insect song, water and whatnot with absorbing intimacy." – Viking's Choice/NPR, Lars Gotrich

Guest mix on Claire Rousay's NTS show

Excellent, packed show at Unsound 2022

Full blurb:
On her second release for Warm Winters Ltd., Polish composer Martyna Basta conjures scenes from the blurry edge of memory. An experience one attempts to repress, a lost sensation drawn back towards conscious possession: the images she renders are potent even as they flicker in and out of definition. Basta trained as a classical guitarist, which she exchanged for a multi-instrumental ambient approach on her label debut Making Eye Contact With Solitude. With Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering, Basta extends the diaristic impulses of her recent releases beyond fragments to bring listeners into a full-fledged world, albeit one draped in shadows.

Martyna Basta's hallucinatory compositions here accumulate irregular lay.......
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