Tangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician who now lives in Portugal. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw iterations. Kurek is mainly known for his breakcore works, created together with Marcin Stefanski, in the duo named Slepcy – also published by Cock Rock Disco. ‘Lectures’ is both close to and very far away from those projects (I’m thinking for example, of a piece like “With Charles Bukowski On The Ride”). There is still the same abstract, reactive and hyper-clear organisation, but this time they cite other, equally refined works, thanks to very different acoustic recordings, inspired by Cornelius Cardew, a seminal experimental composer and forerunner – with his Scratch Orchestra (1969) – of decidedly unconventional fusions. He also adds interesting fragments taken from conferences and performances of the English composer, mixing everything in an enigmatic editing, philologically careful and very involving. Aurelio Cianciotta
via Neural