A solo project summarizing several years of experience with studio sonic experiments, original workshops, travels and studies on the ritual music of the Carpathians and the Balkans. The recordings used, among others, archaic clarinets, horns and vertical flutes from the Carpathians, tampura and sitar lutes from India, a set of liturgical instruments from Orthodox monasteries and instruments from Tibet and the Far North.

It was supposed to be a session focused on my preferences and experiences, and an attempt to organize my own method of preparation for recording and working in the studio. In the session I used, among others a few hand-built instruments, less known geological sounds and field recordings. I used sounds as the starting material for designing sound environments () and some of them were completely processed, far away from the original.
For balance and a slightly perverse reference to the tradition that is close to me, I introduced sounds burdened with a strong mythology: didjerid, sitar and a female voice, as well as fragments of older compositions from the Magic Carpathians Project. The latter should be treated as recycling elements, a new role of which does not correspond to the original idea.
In composing music, I did not make any "initial assumptions" and I was only guided by the dynamics and the sonic taste of the collected materials.
"Cyber ​​Totem" is a wandering on old and new routes with rest in places with good energy. I did not avoid slowing down in darker alleys, confrontations and sad observations that are endlessly cared for by the multitudes of hungry ghosts roaming in cyberspace and the so-called "fate".
The music is accompanied by an extensive text on inspiration and studio work, which you can find here >>>