Mical Jacaszek is a Polish electroacoustic musician who's new album, Glimmer, has the makings of the soundtrack to the Winter of 2012.
Not unlike Trentemoller's The Last Resort (2006), Glimmer is both hypnotic and evocative, at once drawing listeners in with its spare, warm sounds, while simultaneously drifting just temptingly off into a seductive ambience that can't help but indicate a possible future in film scoring.
With his harmonious blend of acoustic guitar and electronic keyboards, Jacaszek suggests a fresh direction for the occasionally twee electronic genre while offering genuine compositions that verge at times on neo-classical formalism.
Jacaszek is technically experimental if for no other reason than he seems to be forging ahead with his own sound that effortlessly defies easy categorization. Neither ambient nor dance-oriented electronica, his sturdy compositions suggest classical music, while also defiantly mixing acoustic instruments in with electronic sounds.
Glimmer is actually Jacaszek's seventh studio recording, and while much of the press he's amassed to date is in Polish, this new recording is generating a bit more interest and is justly poised to bring his wonderfully esoteric music to a wider audience. A bit of English language press and a slate of live performances in the US and UK could help spread the word that Glimmer is an album that may just take a bite out of winter.
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