Tyroko
Feels like through your life is stretched a tape — like a timeline, and it contains your past, present and future memories ~>> when U listen to this album it sound triggers your memories and guide you through different points in your lifetime ~>>
Favorite track: Lancelot's Delusions.
Thom10428
It has long been known that Zenial is a respected player on the ambient scene. His work has reached a very high level. It does not prevent him from pushing his work to the next level higher. The latest Zenial album is proof of this. Ambient of the highest order! Tasteful and fresh sounds delight from the first seconds.
Listening to this material, we have an amazing trip from the earthly hell in which we live to the most beautiful corners of the surrounding space.
Favorite track: Lancelot's Delusions.
doma_bnr
You seek your mind in the abyss of thoughts. You walk through a world of uncertainty, darkness, and illusion; you feel like you're in an amusement park after dark and in the station hall at four a.m. at the same time. However, after a while, a warm stream pours into you, marking the path from mind to heart and back; this feeling greets you every time you listen to this album. Fall, and fly with this music in previously unknown areas. Allow sensations and an unseen thrill to bind you;
Maniek Grucha
Here, where the gentle of electronics meet field recorgings and drone ambient Zenial do at his best as only a few can.
Favorite track: Lancelot's Delusions.
ɐuɓǝןo
Zenial yet again embarks you on a beautiful journey. The calm, relaxing flow is intervened with very subtle yet disturbing influences, like the Doppler effect in Lancelot, or an alien-invasion-like theme in Urban Legends. Excellent stuff, as always!
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
- Glass-mastered CD in 6-panel matte laminated sleeve.
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- Album cover and package designed by Danil Daneliuk
- Booklet images by Łukasz Szałankiewicz
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I like the way these four long strange drones sort of amount to a “concept” album describing a dream-state, or a long journey…or even the deluded state of a medieval knight, hinting at a semi-story idea which is used as a metaphor here. But the record wasn’t necessarily conceived as one whole thing, nor indeed was it recorded or performed that way.
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We have to repeat that “Lancelot” is a metaphor, but I can’t help perceiving a latter-day Don Quixote in this sonic murk, one who is far less forthright than the literary original, less convinced by his own half-remembered moral code, and one who is – like many of us – too easily distracted by the many forces at play in the modern world. If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s simply that we all end up lost, unsure what we’re doing in life. This particular piece attains more focus as it develops – the field recordings drop away, the electronic tones become simpler, as if suggesting there is more resolution awaiting us at the end of the journey; but in reality, there isn’t, and life has no simple explanations to offer us."
Vital Weekly 1314:
"Also four pieces can be found on the CD by Zenial, the music project of Lukasz Szaankiewicz. he is also no stranger to these pages. His work is more in the field of electronic music, coupled with a few field recordings. In 'Orion+', these field recordings are heard best, rain and fire sound embedded in slow-moving washes of synthesizer music. Throughout the music of Zenial connects more to the world of ambient music, the synthesizer variation. Say, Tangerine Dream without the bouncing arpeggio, or Brian Eno. Well, or tons of others in this field. Zenial likes the long and slow form of music, with slowly repeating tones, intertwining closely and drifting apart. Changes take place on an equally minimal level and seem to deal with mostly altering the colour of the sounds. This music doesn't have that gritty darkness of all things lo-fi. There are no hissy and scratchy tapes or small synthesizers; Zenial deals in good quality music production. With its dense, cold and clouded days, the time of the year forms the perfect setting for this kind of music. Do nothing, stare outside your window and play this as the soundtrack for such a day. If it wasn't as cold, I would dig out my CD walkman and take a sixty-six-minute walk, playing this music. Well, perhaps if I wasn't as lazy either. (FdW)"
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"It's like being exhausted and waiting for the train.
It's around the time you try to sleep in a crowded place, such as an airport. As you enter a hypnotic state, reality begins to circle you... "
This is how Lukasz Szalankiewicz aka Zenial describes the notion behind the track "Lancelot Delusion," which inspired the title and theme of his new album. The Doppler effect used in the composition contributes to the psychedelic, surreal ambience. In this track, dreams and journeys are intertwined and pervade the entire release. The title is a metaphor for a mythical, medieval knight who becomes bewildered and lost over his many quests. These patterns are wrapped in unique, minimalistic soundscapes that use field recordings.
Lukasz tries to take on new challenges after years of experimenting with various forms of electronic sounds and unconventional music. He's become more fascinated with minimal ambient and micro-sounds in the last two years. Why? Because, according to Lukasz, doing something worthwhile in that area is difficult. It's the next hermetic genre, according to Zenial.
The oneiric nature is also present in the first track, "How Can I Be There," which deals with forgetting, drifting away, observing, waiting, and dreaming...
Orion+ follows the notion of a journey but is loaded with awe and dread, as it was written during the early stages of the epidemic.
Lukasz has something to say about it: "In fact, the constellation of Orion conceals a lot of information. It's an excellent place to start looking for the Pleiades, for example."
"I can only see what my unarmed eye lets me see as I raise my head into the sky. I wonder where we are and where we are headed. Wandering around my neighbourhood and my city, I ask the same questions, but with new instruments in my eyes and ears - uncertainty, worry, and the want to see and hear more in order to feel more and understand better."
The track was originally self-released as digital-only but has now been specially edited and remastered for "Lancelot's Delusions" as well as the closing piece "Urban Legends". A Muse en Circuit – National Center of Musical Creation (Alfortville, France) in cooperation with Art Zoyd Studios commissioned the latter, and it has been fortunately allowed to be featured on this CD as well
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released November 25, 2021
"Orion+"
Pandemic sound 'podcast for' (excerpt) "Cyber Pills_following the deep" festival - Lviv / Ukraine ,14.10.2020
"Urban legends"
Online performance (excerpt) at La Muse en Circuit – National Center of Musical Creation (Alfortville, France) in cooperation with Art Zoyd Studios, 10.04. 2021
Composed by Łukasz Szałankiwicz (Zenial)
www.zenial.pl
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A fascinating journey through imaginary spaces. Organic blending of electronics, field recordings, ambiences, noises results in creation of unique sound worlds. Masterpiece of modern acousmatic music. Sublime Retreat
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close your eyes, you are standing on the precipice, but you will not jump; you are shaky but in fact you would like to fly, thanks to this music you will go wherever you want and at the same time you will survive, on the border of worlds doma_bnr
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if you want to hear the second layer of the world, immerse yourself in this music; if anxious thoughts accompany your soul,listen to this music because you will find their reflection in every sound; this music will perfectly convey whatever you think about: trembling, fear, soothing, reflection, desire, depth. dive, lose yourself doma_bnr
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