Anna Suda - electronics
Songs For Running Through Grass
GHOST KITCHEN 01
By Adam Baruch
Polish Jazz enthusiasts are familiar with electronic producer and live performer An On Bast (real name Anna Suda) thanks to a series of wonderful recordings she made with trumpeter Maciej Fortuna, where her extraordinary creations met the Jazz idiom. But before recording with Fortuna she was already a world famous artists, performer and recording artist of her own accord with an ongoing career since 2006. An On Bast recorded this solo album after the recordings with Fortuna and its release also marks a debut on her own record label called Ghost Kitchen. It includes eleven relatively short tracks, all composed by her.
Contemporary electronic/ambient music is rarely interesting to me, as it is based mostly on schematic,
very predictable sound formulas and rhythmic patterns. The great Godfathers of
electronic music, like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese and many others, started
the electronic explorations to expand the borders of sound as known to the
human ear, but by the end of the 20th Century it was completely
bastardized, commercialized and vandalized by the Pop (non)Culture of the time,
becoming more of a noise pollution than music in any respect.
Of course there are always
exceptions and An On Bast is for me one of them. Her electronic/ambient
sounds are aesthetically pleasing; non aggressive and diverse enough to keep
the attention of the listener rather than hypnotize him by a drone like
repetitious mechanical sound poison. There is enough melodic element,
development and variety to keep things interesting for the duration of the
album, and listening to it becomes quite a fun after a while, especially in a
relaxed, hassle-free environment, like driving or late night listening.
Although I hope An On Bast will
continue her involvement with the Jazz world in the future, her electronic
works are now another avenue of soundscapes I find worth following. Well done!
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