Prisoners of Expectations

Artificialice presents her debut album Prisoners of Expectations.

The electronics juxtaposed with acoustic percussion, double bass, saxophone and stirring vocals. The material full of such sounds had been created by a group associated with the Tri-City, but was recorded in a tiny shed in Polanówka, a small village near Lublin, Poland. The intimate and informal conditions of this session definitely favored the recording of exceptionally personal confessions. On the album that eludes genres, Artificialice guides the listener through successive – often surprisingly different in style – pieces, offering listeners a story about discovering self identity, and above all about the need to free from the “prison” of personal and others’ expectations created in the own mind.

Young, talented and creative musicians associated with the Academy of Music in Gdańsk worked on the album, also co-creating bands such as: Immortal Onion, Hania Rani, Tomasz Chyła Quintet, Quantum Trio, Alfah Femmes, Mu (Tymon Tymański), Zgrzałość (Marcin Świetlicki), Sławek Jaskułke Sextet, Grzegorz Kapołka Trio, The Fruitcakes, Ziemia or the above-mentioned Klawo. The material had been created as a result of collective cooperation interwoven with the individual process of music production by Krzysztof Hadrych, Ziemowit Klimek and Maciej Świniarski.

It’s better not to set any expectations.