As a reminder: Blauka They are offered in battle professionals who are Georgina Tarasiuk and Piotr Leftist. For the female side of the duo, the establishment of a group was a kind of cutting off from the musical yoke of the past, in which she was the youngest finalist in the history of “Chance of Success” or soloist Oratory Piotr Rubik. On the other hand, the male part of the group is a session and concert musician who collaborated, among others With frost or Sorry Boys, and delving even more into his biography, we will see a whole range of jazz projects in very different compositions.
“Miniature” – The debut album of the duo from 2019 – was an album that, however, did not point to the past of the musicians. We were dealing with an ambitious, somewhat retrospective pop, in which references to the psychedelic period of Beach Boys or Beatles could be felt.
“Volt” I would describe as a more experimental project – each of the songs tries to settle in a different climate in a more or less radical way. All of them combine the unusual, velvety vocal of Georgina, whose color of the voice envelops like satin bedding, and technical precision only strengthens this effect. I would say that it is as if Komoszyńska Beld deprived of a tendency to fall into an emfaza, this light hoarseness and pressing girlishness. Topka of women’s vocals in Poland, definitely. And that’s not why I go to the gym so as not to be able to beat for this opinion.
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What also connects the songs present on “Wolta” are texts, devoid of complex metaphors, while in its simplicity extremely brilliant. I very much appreciate such shapely connections as “everything will not work / although a glass is always full”. With undisguised admiration, I keep in my head, which is really about “Fashion”. A lot of subcutaneously hidden melancholy, brewing tearing, scars and intrapacts. “What is black and white / direction constantly turns into gray / for good and bad / So why our wet eyes?” Georgina sings in “KIX”and I can’t get over how many can fit so much.
But that’s how I talk mainly about this vocal part, when we ultimately deal with music. While the debut retrospective actually went more to the side track, the whole is connected by the specific matt-pastel, dreamy sound that could already be felt earlier. And regardless of the direction chosen by the musicians. Such “Lichtenberg figure” He starts from a garage and punk position to jump more and more over time towards “Post”. “Jupiter” However, he still reveals a lot of love directed against psychedelic-rock, analog sounds.
A lot of mist here, which in an ambient way fill the space in the songs. IN “Fight” I am looking for shoegaze inspirations – initially those dreamy identified with Slowdive (which also appear in “Kix” or “Trumanie”) to go to My Blooda Valentine in the very end, or – looking closer to our time – and Place is Bury Strangers.“Berlin and Amsterdam” With a way of treating vocals, it brings us to a brighter version of Dream Pop Cocteau Twins. These are quite surprises, but I really like the direction that the duo chose on the second album.
I will no longer say words that you will not get away from Blauki. But I would like it to be so. I enter this album in the list of my favorite musical items 2025. Not only on the native stage – in general. Do the same, I recommend it.
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