Szymon Kaliski – Out Of Forgetting
It’s already been a couple of months, since Szymon Kaliski released his “Out Of Forgetting” on Audiomoves. And it’s already quite a time, since I received this copy and meant to review it. But somehow always something else stopped me from doing so; other work related stuff, too many chores, deadlines, you name it. The albums started to disappear under a pile of new stuff to listen to. Usually this means that it probably won’t get reviewed at all.
But … something was different with “Out Of Forgetting” that I always got back to this record. It’s kind of hard to explain, because with a quick listen this album isn’t that much different from the usual ambient leftfield releases: Warm and droning textures, distant guitar and piano fragments echoing through densely reverberated rooms. Crackles and clicks hint to a vinyl colored nostalgia. Especially the heavy use of crackle sounded a little too much contrived or cliché. As if the artist needed this extra layer of sound to convince the listener about the melancholic aspect.
Anyways, it appeared to me that this only mattered, when I tried to listen to it with full attention. Whenever I gave the album the room to work as an ambient piece in the classical sense of being “just” a sonic wallpaper, “Out Of Forgetting” worked wonders. Lulling the room in dense but yet subtle tonal movements, intertwining with the noises outside my window; the cars passing by, people shouting, the wind – it all made perfect sense. Peace, a hint of melancholy, warmth unfolded carefully. Particularly “In Twelve Scenes” with its mumbled voice recordings offers a deep sense of calmness and and solitude. Maybe it was the best thing that could happen to slowly drown under the pile of new stuff in order to gently sneak into my subconsciousness.
