Agata Ciurkot - 2025 Danish Pink Cotton Candy Records Label 6-track LP

Recalls experimental pioneers like Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, delivering an electro-acoustic journey that feels both timeless and fleeting” - ADSR Collective (CA)

“a profound sonic experience” - electronica.org (UK)

“Static explosions, piercing wails, and complex jazz structures merge into a mosaic of nuanced profundity” (No Transmission, US)

‘expertly blend avant-garde experimentation with elements of […] jazz and noise-infused ambient soundscapes’ (Inverted Audio, UK)

“Ephemeral, Basal” is an album where the recognizable and the unknown meet, where the physical and the ethereal engage in dialogue and mutually ascribe meaning. Agata Ciurkot’s piano invites us in with all of its keys, ushering us into a liminal space where the lines of its contours blur as it intersects with the intricate waveforms of Ignacio Cordoba’s industrial oscillators. Ciurkot plays an old, grounded instrument in which classical music and jazz are rooted; Cordoba plays an instrument that was never meant to be used outside a laboratory or a factory, perhaps never even meant to be heard. Together, these instruments form an alchemic duo that focuses on being present, on listening, on pondering what emotions lie beyond human experience, where feelings float in space when they depart from earth in the form of sound waves in the air that travels beyond the stratosphere. Agata Ciurkot and Ignacio Cordoba, together, listen to space, to the stars, constellations, and black holes above their ears.

Tracklisting.
    
Side 1.
1. Luminiferous Aether
2. Crown Shyness
3. Aeromonas Hydrophila

Side 2.
1. Batter
2. Saffire
3. Pseudobulbar Affect