How To Dress Well and Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet
We are proud to announce that the Radio 3 Stage lineup now includes two new groundbreaking artists: How To Dress Well (US) and Poland’s own Wojtek Mazolewski and his quintet.
How To Dress Well
Can fans of Justin Vernon and Justin Timberlake find any common ground? Late 2009 saw the appearance of an artist who proved that it was possible. His free EPs, published online, electrified the blogosphere: Who was he? Where did he come from and when was the album coming out? It all cleared up in 2010. How To Dress Well turned out to be a certain Tom Krell, a philosophy student splitting his time between Cologne and Brooklyn. His 2010 album Love Remains made it onto critics’ lists of the most promising debuts of the year. Krell’s melancholy lo-fi pop and ethereal r’n’b, garnished with a hypnotic, brittle voice, is addictive and hard to forget.
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet
He started out in grade school, shouting into a microphone at the head of a punk rock band. His energy, restlessness, and love for artistic freedom are all vestiges of his punk past. The bassist and composer Wojtek Mazolewski, best known for his work in Pink Freud (as well as Baaba, Freeyo, Tymański Yass Ensemble, Bassisters Orchestra, and countless other bands), has decided to go back to the spirit of vintage, analog recordings — the sounds of Coltrane and the Beatles. His excellent album Smells Like Tape Spirit, two years in the making, is an astounding success. Will the live show convey the warm, spacey sound yet sneak in a bit of that distorted rock we’ve come to expect from his Pink Freud days? We’ll see.