COLUMBUS DUO: SALT Deadsailor Muzic 2010

The history of Columbus Duo goes back up to the beginning of the nineties, when Thing, one of first noise-rock groups in Poland, was formed. Next years are marked by a successive reduction of the formation as well as by the uninterrupted research of a new musical form. Columbus Ensemble, playing a kind of avant-jazz, and, since 2002, Columbus Duo are the effect of these transformations. After experiments with minimalism on first two albums, the duo of the Swoboda brothers went back to more spread structures on Storm and Columbus meets Arszyn, recorded with an experimental artist Krzysztof Topolski. Salt, produced by Marcin Dymiter, another distinguished figure of experimental music in Poland, is the eighth album of the brothers. This time, thanks to the collaboration of the Deadsailor Muzic label, lead by one of the brothers, with Monotype Rec., it is published only in vinyl version. Columbus Duo enriches his repertoire by electronic and psychodelic tradition, reinforced by the anti-melodic aspect, full of tension and darkness. The soundscape of the guitar is accompanied by a voice always minimalist, always reciting in French and by an electronic background created, among others, by a retro keyboard. The Columbus Duos compositions try to explore contrasts between a relatively severe form and an expressive and more noisy sounds, characteristic of the duo from Gdask.