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Music: Jakub Ziołek
with:
Hubert Zemler - drums & metallophones in "Wszędzie śnieg"
Tomek Popowski - drums in "Daleko, daleko"

Stara Rzeka returns with a new album. “Get Out of My House” will release in the fall of 2025 on the Krakow-based label Instant Classic.

After nearly a decade of silence Jakub Ziołek is reviving his solo project Stara Rzeka, announcing a brand new album.

Stara Rzeka is one of the most important Polish alternative music projects of the 21st century, uniquely combining elements of folk, drone, psychedelia, black metal, and experimental music. However, this new iteration of the project is intended to open a completely new chapter—both aesthetically and conceptually.

“As with everything I do, it’s more about affect than a deliberate decision, the feeling that something has sprouted on its own,” says Ziołek. “At some point, a vision of the aesthetic, sound, and atmosphere I want to achieve crystallized in my head, and after acquiring some technical proficiency in realizing this vision, new songs practically began to emerge on their own.”

The album “Get Out of My House” also marks a return to the project’s roots—but on new terms. Ziołek redefines its core, which has always revolved around broadly defined folk, now taking the form of something the artist calls “imagined folk”:

“For me, the core of Stara Rzeka has been broadly defined as folk music (…). I wondered for a while whether the new version of Stara Rzeka would have anything to do with folk at all, and whether it even mattered, until I finally decided I wanted to create ‘imagined’ folk, untethered to any specific place or time.”

The album “Get Out of My House,” heralding a new chapter in “imagined folk,” promises to be the most personal and simultaneously most conceptual installment of Stara Rzeka. This is music suspended somewhere beyond time and space, at the intersection of worlds – real and imaginary, spiritual and physical.