Ptaki(The Very Polish Cut-Outs/Young Adults/People Must Jam)の片割れで、ソロでもGrowing Bin RecordsやInto The Light、Emotional Response等からリリースしているBartosz Kruczyńskiのアルバム！ディープで浮遊感漂うシンセにヴィブラフォンやハープ等が心地良い極上アンビエント！

A1. Dream I
A2. Dream II
A3. Dream III
A4. Dream IV
A5. Dream V
A6. Dream VI
A7. Dream VII
B1. Whisper I
B2. Whisper II
B3. Whisper III
B4. Whisper IV
B5. Whisper V
B6. Whisper VI
B7. Whisper VII

We’ve always been careful not to call Balmat an ambient label, because we like having the freedom to move, to drift, to morph. But with our 11th release, we turn our ears—proudly, blissfully—to a strain of ambient at its most timeless. The appropriately titled Dreams & Whispers comes from Warsaw’s Bartosz Kruczyński, who has recorded under a number of guises, Earth Trax, as well as his own name. Over the years, he’s touched upon deep house, breakbeats, acid, techno, electro, IDM, and more; often, the throughline running through a given album is simply the refusal to remain in any one place for long—well, that, and his unusually nuanced ear for harmony and texture.
 
Those qualities come to the fore on Dreams & Whispers, which might be the most focused encapsulation of Kruczyński’s atmospheric sensibilities to date.. Across 14 stripped-down tracks for shimmer and pulse, Kruczyński evokes overlapping styles in ambient—warm vibraphones, taut arps, massing strings, lonesome delay chains —but always with his own twist. Fitting the album’s title, the album is loosely divided into two distinct moods: The A-side, “Dreams,” is charged with subtle movement, rhythms spreading out like rings around skipped stones, while the B-side, “Whispers,” plunges into a zone of shadows and hush. The two complementary moods flow into one another like the faces of a Moebius strip, yielding an album that’s intuitively shaped and rich in emotion.