Stefan Weso³owski - violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, synths (all tracks)
Maja Miro - fute (2)
Piotr Weso³owski - pipe organ (5)
All tracks composed & arranged by Stefan Weso³owski
Recorded by Stefan Weso³owski and Marcin Nenko (Studio Zbrodnia).
Mixed by Al Carlson
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri
Recorded in Gdañsk, Gdynia and New York, 2023/2024
"Song of the Night Mists" to nowy album Stefana Weso³owskiego, kompozytora, skrzypka i producenta muzycznego. Pozornie jest ostatni± czê¶ci± trylogii, nastêpuj±c± po albumach Liebestod (Imprortant Records 2013) i Rite of the End (Ici D'Ailleurs 2017, uznany Najlepszym Polskim Albumem 2017 roku w plebiscycie Gazety Wyborczej). Wszystkie trzy poruszaj± egzystencjalne kwestie, takie jak mi³o¶æ, ¶mieræ, rozk³ad i „ostateczny koniec”. Album zosta³ zmiksowany w Nowym Jorku przez Ala Carlsona (Oneohtrix Point Never, Jessica Pratt, Zola Jesus, Lady Gaga i Liturgy), a masteringiem zaj±³ siê Rafael Anton Irisarri.
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The writer Max Sebald often pondered over the nature of human memory, specifically, how our thoughts and desires - and their results - overlap and mutate over time. In A Place in the Country, he writes of the significance of what see as “similarities, overlaps and coincidences”. Are they the “delusions” of the self and senses, or manifestations of “an order underlying the chaos of human relationships, [...] which lies beyond our comprehension”?
Song of the Night Mists, the new album by post-classical composer Stefan Wesolowski, often feels it draws on Sebald’s premise.
On a simpler plane, the one where the market dictates the neatly ordered information we consume, Song of the Night Mists can be described thus: recorded in the main by Stefan Wesolowski in Gdansk, both in his studio and in Saint Nicholas' Basilica, the album incorporates acoustic instruments - piano, violin, double bass - and classic synthesizers such as the Roland Jupiter-8, the Soviet Polivoks. A Roland Space Echo RE-150 tape delay was also pressed into service as an instrument. We also hear the basillica’s organ and field recordings from the Tatra Mountains. Other musicians were Maja Miro, who played the flute parts on ‘Glacial Troughs’ and brother ....... more