BOGDAN RACZYNSKI mention

I wanted to share a few words about Bogdan Raczynski latest album. And I wanted to express my gratitude for the simple mention and thanks he devotes to it on the cover.
I see this mention as a form of recognition towards the different creators of instruments and music software, often independent, with whom Bogdan collaborated or whose he used some of their tools in his music.

What particularly touches me is the artisanal aspect of this album.
We are far from the supercharged atmospheres of the rave party of his previous albums, and it is more of a record in the intimate lineage of “My Love I love” from the Rephlex Record era.
We feel the author questioning his machines, evaluating the possibility of getting out of the “loop” or making fun of it, creating narratives imbued with a real poetic imprint, while remaining off the beaten track.
This album also evokes a beautiful discographic Braindance nostalgia. Bogdan, one of its pioneers, offers us here a new chapter of which he alone has the recipe: honesty, simplicity, maybe also a touch of humor and a real personal melodic aesthetic.

Bogdan is also one of the last artists of his generation to cultivate a rebellious, impertinent and indomitable spirit. The opposite of cowardice. He does not mince his words and regularly denounces on Instagram, the injustices of the world and the contempt of the dominant classes.

These injustices that other artists denounce much more timidly, more often mobilized to campaign on societal themes, certainly important, but much easier to defend in the shelter of the Western world, according to one’s community affiliations, when on the other side of the planet children are literally blown up by bombs.

Behind this tough guy facade hides a sensitive and wise artist, a painter in perpetual quest for ethics to make his art exist.
In a way, he refuses a certain number of artifices or to submit to the system and diverts it on occasion (this QR code on the album cover). He thus embodies a figure of resistance in an often conformist music industry.

Let’s not forget, as the legend says, that we are talking about an artist, who at the dawn of his career, knew what it was like to live in the street. It is probably through this will power to remain honest and faithful to his convictions that he pays the price of a possible precariousness.So we necessarily speak about someone who knows the bitter taste of misery… therefore of a certain truth and that’s why we must support him.

Perhaps this is what his music carries… a truth… One that describes our absurd contemporary reality. The assumed stupidity of those who claim to be “nothing” or to belong to nothing. Those who are forgotten… Those who are left to die in indifference… Those who try to be free and outside the system for real.
This system that some agents will tell him stupid not to follow, but for an authentic artist, it is better to die stupid (with his ideas) than to corrupt himself to please everyone.

You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever.

BOGDAN RACZYNSKI

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