KAMIL KOWALCZYK - AURORA CD

A debut CD album from sound artist/composer Kamil Kowalczyk. It contains two long tracks, "model II" and "plasma". The main concept for album was conspiracy theory about Aurora - a top secret, ultra fast US Military aircraft, also called TR-3B, which has very advanced technology, and special engine driving by plasma…
KAMIL KOWALCZYK - AURORA (CD by Prototyp Produktions Ltd) The cover for this CD is hardly revealing: just the basic information - name, track titles, label's name and website - and not much else. From the label's website we learn that Kamil Kowalczyk hails from Poland, but now lives in Edinburgh and since eight years works with electronics. First as a kid with an old casio keyboard but since 2002 using computer and 'some simple software'. Previously his work has been released by the Zenapolae net label in the form of six MP3 albums, but now he's took the gamble and started his own label, Prototyp Records and he has started to play some gigs. So far the facts. The CD has two long pieces, one of thirty-two minutes and one of twenty-five minutes. Its hard to say wether this is all the result of computer and 'some simple software'. 'Model II', the opening piece, starts out in a nice electrically charged environment of static sounds, but then at one point there is a simple bang against the tea-cup and some cheap delay, which ruins what has been build up until then. The only other significant feature in this track is something that resembles a short sine wave like sound moving in and out of the mix. Without that one silly sound it would have made a fine piece, although perhaps Kowalczyk stretches it a bit too much. 'Plasma' is the other piece here and doesn't have that odd sound gesture, and is a fine dark, moving beast of chords on a synth and has ragged edge to it, but still stays firmly on the side of dark ambient music. This is the better of the two pieces, but for both one could say they are fairly normal pieces of ambient music too. Its a promising start I guess.