Three brief piano loops, nothing more, heavily processed. Volksmusik is said to have had its genesis in tragic personal events that befell debutant Lukasz Wegrzyn, eventually prompting memories of happy childhood summers in the countryside.
Memory is an unstable and evasive agent. Every recollection surfacing from within leaves its root system further and further behind, seeks unexpected paths. Wegrzyn’s three pieces, eighteen, thirteen and twenty minutes long, respectively, are fraught with almost startling credence, as each whole fragments into new possibilities through the physical act of processing. Consolidating a discourse out of a brief coil of time, as on “The Orchard,” reveals a new poetic landscape, as politely organized cultivation gives way to untamed terrain.
Movement creates the illusion of repetition, but the boundaries of each trigger memory are pushed until each proclaims, I am not what I have been.
Volksmusik is available on Etalabel.
