ATLAS ESTREMO – JURIJ ANDRUCHOWYCZ & KARBIDO
“ATLAS ESTREMO” – that is the title of the new project by JURIJ ANDRUCHOWYCZ, the first laureate of the “Angelus,” and the Wrocław-based group KARBIDO. This literary-musical spectacle had its premiere during the international ArtPole Festival in Unizh (Ukraine). As opposed to previous projects by Andruchowycz and Karbido, recorded on the albums “Samogon,” “Absynt,” and “Cynamon,” this time the lyrical layer for the Ukrainian singer’s melodeclamation is comprised of prose from “Leksykon miast intymnych” instead of his own poetry. Out of scraps of his writings, unfinished sentences and phrases, Andruchowycz creates a kind if poetic collage. The music made by Karbido is also different from their previous projects. The artists abandon the aesthetics of a post-rock poetic spectacle. This time around the music is more raw and minimal.
2015 marks a decade of cooperation between Karbido and Andruchowycz, the closing of the “Samogon – Cynamon – Absynt” trilogy, and historic changes currently taking place in Ukraine, ones that we cannot ignore – these are the origins of the new project inspired by Andruchowycz’s book “Leksykon intymnych mist.” The author’s aim was to translate the energy and atmosphere of the cities described there, as well as the commentary regarding them, into the language of sonic expression.