Piotr Kurek presents Smartwoods with Rebecca El-Saleh, Nathan Bellott and Henry Fraser

Piotr Kurek is a Warsaw-based musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Known to work as a solo musician, but also as part of various collaborations, he has released music on Unsound, Edições CN, Mondoj, Hands In The Dark, Black Sweat Records, Dunno, Sangoplasmo and other labels. At Unsound New York he will present music from the Unsound-released “Smartwoods” album, a sprawling root system of tiny melodic phrases that loop around subtly evolving instrumental thickets. Kurek takes his cues from early music, baroque, and experimental jazz, entangling his influences with filigree traces of contemporary computer audio. Structured in seven distinct segments, the album blurs its acoustic and electronic elements into an illusory hedge of abstract sound. Kurek will perform his set with local musicians—Rebecca El-Saleh, Nathan Bellott, and Henry Fraser—on synths, guitar, bass, wind instruments and harp. Slowly morphing visuals are by Michal Soja based on paintings by Tomasz Kowalski.