"My main focus and my main passion has been arrangements, I like complex arrangements in music; I love it, that’s why I listen to Burt Bacharach and things like that. I’m not a fan of model-based music. I find a lot of electronic music is based around that, and that’s fine. I just can’t connect to it. I like key changes. It’s almost like it’s bad to do key changes in electronic music these days."
Cornel Wilczek, otherwise known as Qua, enjoys nothing more than making electronic music. His debut album "Forgetabout" was released in 2002, on Surgery Records. When he dropped "Forgetabout" on an unsuspecting public, the response was near rapturous acclaim. Here was an artist, a local artist at that, crafting joyful sonic vistas of gorgeous experimental constructions that simultaneously tugged melancholically on the heartstrings whilst sending appreciative shivers through the brain.
"Painting Monsters on Clouds" is Qua's follow up album. It is an unrepentantly gorgeous and nostalgic mix of sunlit electronics and guitars, buoyed by complex arrangements, and crafted by a gentle iconoclast - bringing to mind the playfulness of Mouse on Mars, the sophistication of Ennio Morricone and the warm lush pops of Architecture in Helsinki.
Foregetabout folktronica, kiddietronica, or even pigeonholetronica as Qua is operating in his own league. This is Quatronica. In fact aspects of it don’t even sound all that electronic, drawing upon elements of world music, folk, and even rock in this incredible fusion. |
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