The music draws you in and creates images with in your mind. This is a very intriguing release with colourful although minimalist results. Unusually, the release will also be available on cassette from the 17 th too. The album is available digitally from the 10 th December from Mariusz’s Bandcamp page, and then on other digital platforms and streaming services from17th December. Mariusz neatly builds it into a rhythm that flows into the track, disappearing at times only to resurface then drift away. The title track itself begins with what sounds like chalk writing on a blackboard. There are some sounds that can only have been made with various writing implements which bring a smile to your face when you recognise them. Amongst all the synthetic sounds utilised there are clever moments of humour. Albums such as this can be sterile and cool, a little lost within themselves. It is quite a minimalist approach with clever use of sampling and loops, largely instrumental apart from occasional vocal passages which are mixed comparatively low within the swim of the rest of the sounds. The most Tangerine Dream like track is, perhaps, Prisoner By Request but mainly the songs are led by piano which add textures and tonalities less familiar from Tangerine Dream. The music itself is very much in the progressive electronic mould, drawing inspiration from Mariusz’s early inspirations such as Tangerine Dream as well as some perhaps more contemporary artists like Thom Yorke. It is also quite universal – the ideas and motivations portrayed could apply equally to a writer working on a novel, an artist on a canvas, or a director on a film, or indeed any other creativity. In many ways it is an impressionistic collection of tracks that portray the necessary thought processes, about the mind flow of someone working on a project. It is about the creative need to produce an album, the passion, drive, work and desire that is required. Interior Drawings is the third in a trilogy of pandemic albums that Mariusz has released recently. Mariusz Duda will be known to many in the progressive rock world for his work in Riverside and Lunatic Soul, but he now regularly releases albums in his own name too.
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