Poland’s premier indie label Instant Classic has been causing a stir of late in the teeming world of the European underground, mainly as purveyors of auteur-lead doomy metal-ambient-noise acts such as Stara Rzeka and improvisational supergroup Innercity Ensemble. New Rome, AKA Tomasz Bednarczyk, plays firmly within the ambient boundaries of the label’s sensibilities. Somewhere, by Bednarczyk’s own admission, became an “accidental” concept album consisting of disparate yet visionary pieces of music from other projects, but there’s nothing to suggest the cutting room floor here. The revealed track ‘Inflow’ yields a soundscape of heavenly droning underpinning an ever-escalating chord sequence, all wobbly and grainy like watching New Romantic groups perform on a battered old TV – VCR combo. Somewhere is due for release on January 30th via Bandcamp.

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