After the concert at Firlej on 19.01.06, we met The Magic Carpathians Project and asked about their music and their evolution as a project. Here is what we found out:
It is “Magic” because they play hundreds of peculiar-looking ethnic instruments with a fantastic and peculiar sound. It is “Carpathian” because Anna Nacher and Marek Styczynski take their inspiration from traditional Carpathian mountain culture and environment.
They combine the sound of their various traditional instruments played by Marek with Anna’s electric guitar and powerful throat singing. The final product is “pretty wild,” says Anna, “We improvise a lot, so the music is always different.”
During their cooperation, which started in 1998, The Magic Carpathians Project has shifted away from folk-inspired world music towards more improvisational and experimental, even meditational sounds.
Anna remarks, “You do not only listen to sound with your ears. There are instruments that produce sounds you experience inside your body.” — alice
You can download the extract of “The Place I Come” from their last album “Sonic Suicide” here:
magiccarpathians01.mp3 (192kbp / 2.4MB / 1:41) — by courtesy of The Magic Carpathians Project
