Ciśnienie (pl)

Ciśnienie’s latest record “[Angry Noises]” came with the following disclaimer: “This album is designed to be played loudly. Listen as loud as you can or as loud as you’re allowed”. While we will let the band show you why that is this first hand on Friday evening, we can already vouch for them that the album does sound better the louder you play it, but especially… with the more you play it! As this wonderfully eclectic piece of music can seem daunting and not readily digestible at first listen, we can guarantee that with time you’ll come to love it to just as much as we did. Unconventional and genre-fluid, “[Angry Noises]” smashes not only ear drums but also standards and conventions, no pressure.

Aptly adopting the Polish term for ‘pressure’ as their moniker, this Katowice cosmo-mystic experimental sextet applies exactly that to stylistic dogmatic conventions: unrelenting, joyful and destructive pressure. Featuring an unusual “ensemble” of violin, sax, bass, drums, and keyboards, Ciśnienie channel all the angst, anxiety, anger, and rage of these troubled times in a sonic cauldron that reminds us of the noise antics and rebellious spirit of prog-rock innovators King Crimson, the unhinged energy and improvisational quality of avant-jazz legends Swans, and the spell-biding gravitational pull of post-rock icons Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Don’t be mistaken though, as Ciśnienie’s are way more than the sum of their influences and their discography is irrefutable proof of both their uncompromising compositional approach and the sheer brilliance behind it.

Recorded live like all the band’s previous albums—because this is a band that makes the most sense experienced in the flesh— “[Angry Noises]” is a record that shows incredible compositional maturity, stylistic integrity and musical prowess, all under the incredible force of a massive wall-of-soun… well, noise. However, Cisnienie are not only here to show us how noise can be a great stress reliever, but they’re especially here to remind us that self-expression is sometimes the best form of self-care.

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