Coldair

Coldair is the solo project of Polish singer/songwriter Tobiasz Bilinski. “Sign” (a cut from his forthcoming fourth album Whose Blood, due out April 15) tells us three important things. 1. Bilinski knows his way around a delicate folk harmony. 2. Delicate folk harmonies need not shatter when met head on with a horn section and heavy percussion. 3. The previous two facts make him one to watch. Take a listen to the track below. - Under The Radar

Warsaw, Poland's Coldair recently performed a series of songs for Polish radio station Czwórka. Songs include "I Won't Stay Up," "Together/Alone" and "Holiness." You can watch the video for "I Won't Stay Up" below.

Coldair is a band whose imaginative pop folk, electro acoustic both captivates and soothes you. You may find you'll slowly lose yourself to the calming melodies of the songs.

Coldair will perform at this year's Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles. If you haven't already done so, you can purchase tickets to the festival for just $20 here. - See more at: http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/media/entry/watch_coldair_perform_i_wont_stay_up_for_czworka/#sthash.7gcM7SvC.dpuf - Filter Magazine

Warsaw, Poland's Coldair recently performed a series of songs for Polish radio station Czwórka. Songs include "I Won't Stay Up," "Together/Alone" and "Holiness." You can watch the video for "I Won't Stay Up" below.

Coldair is a band whose imaginative pop folk, electro acoustic both captivates and soothes you. You may find you'll slowly lose yourself to the calming melodies of the songs.

Coldair will perform at this year's Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles. If you haven't already done so, you can purchase tickets to the festival for just $20 here. - See more at: http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/media/entry/watch_coldair_perform_i_wont_stay_up_for_czworka/#sthash.7gcM7SvC.dpuf - Filter Magazine

This week, we take a reflective sonic stroll with Coldair, our Artist of the Week from Warsaw who — despite feverishly trouncing the competition this week — makes calming tunes for deep thoughts.

Hearkening Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver and Beirut, Coldair’s most recent album Far South is an irresistible folk effort, borne of an artist who is far from green. Coldair, or Tobiasz Bilinski, is a SXSW veteran also founded the critically acclaimed Polish indie folksy crew Kyst, and has traveled the world armed with a falsetto of Thom Yorke proportions. - MTV

Name: Tobiasz Bilinski
Where He’s From: Warsaw, Poland
When He Started: Birth
Genre: Abstracted Folk
Most Similar: Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith
Sounds Like: Nostalgia. Sweet, sweet nostalgia.

Maybe it comes in the wake of a long night of drinks with friends. Perhaps it happens after a chance encounter with an ex. Or the discovery of a long forgotten birthday card. Whatever the catalyst, it’s something we can all identify with: that moment when a memory refuses to stay put and vividly invades the present tense.

It’s called nostalgia—and it’s a feeling Tobiasz Bilinski knows all too well. The Warsaw-based musician (who also pulls double duty with ambient outfit Kyst), crafts delicate, haunting folk music under the name Coldair. Live, the band can blossom to five or six people. But, as evidenced by last year’s album Far South, this is the vision of one man, yearning to dig through the fog of memory and make sense of it all. “I try to remember/it fades away when I try,” Bilinski sings on “There,” displaying the beauty of circular logic and lyric structure.



Throughout the album (his second, although if you ask him he’ll call it his proper debut under the moniker) Bilinski proves himself to be a musician willing to hold his listeners close—even when he’s not exactly sure what he’s looking for. Far South’s eight tracks are peppered with sketched stories that drift along on a dreamlike train of thought, their character derived from a half-finished state. It’s a rare and intriguing look into a tangled emotional thought process most of us try to gloss over.

Just don’t mistake intimacy for meekness. While unafraid to strip it down (“Together/Alone” demonstrates the power of less), Bilinski proves to be equally at home orchestrating a lush brass section or layering vocals as he is wielding just voice and guitar. As a result, Far South is a multi-faceted web of sound. The touch points and are easy to spot. A splash of 1970s warmth here (“I Won’t Stay Up”). A Bon Iver-worthy falsetto there (“There”). “Digging” in particular will have Sufjan Stevens fans crying Michigan. But Coldair—more than the sum of its parts—is a project awash with deceptive simplicity offering no answers…just a stunningly beautiful unease. - MTV

Name: Tobiasz Bilinski
Where He’s From: Warsaw, Poland
When He Started: Birth
Genre: Abstracted Folk
Most Similar: Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith
Sounds Like: Nostalgia. Sweet, sweet nostalgia.

Maybe it comes in the wake of a long night of drinks with friends. Perhaps it happens after a chance encounter with an ex. Or the discovery of a long forgotten birthday card. Whatever the catalyst, it’s something we can all identify with: that moment when a memory refuses to stay put and vividly invades the present tense.

It’s called nostalgia—and it’s a feeling Tobiasz Bilinski knows all too well. The Warsaw-based musician (who also pulls double duty with ambient outfit Kyst), crafts delicate, haunting folk music under the name Coldair. Live, the band can blossom to five or six people. But, as evidenced by last year’s album Far South, this is the vision of one man, yearning to dig through the fog of memory and make sense of it all. “I try to remember/it fades away when I try,” Bilinski sings on “There,” displaying the beauty of circular logic and lyric structure.



Throughout the album (his second, although if you ask him he’ll call it his proper debut under the moniker) Bilinski proves himself to be a musician willing to hold his listeners close—even when he’s not exactly sure what he’s looking for. Far South’s eight tracks are peppered with sketched stories that drift along on a dreamlike train of thought, their character derived from a half-finished state. It’s a rare and intriguing look into a tangled emotional thought process most of us try to gloss over.

Just don’t mistake intimacy for meekness. While unafraid to strip it down (“Together/Alone” demonstrates the power of less), Bilinski proves to be equally at home orchestrating a lush brass section or layering vocals as he is wielding just voice and guitar. As a result, Far South is a multi-faceted web of sound. The touch points and are easy to spot. A splash of 1970s warmth here (“I Won’t Stay Up”). A Bon Iver-worthy falsetto there (“There”). “Digging” in particular will have Sufjan Stevens fans crying Michigan. But Coldair—more than the sum of its parts—is a project awash with deceptive simplicity offering no answers…just a stunningly beautiful unease. - MTV

next up is a deeply affecting, acoustically-driven, poignant et plaintive, cathartic lament, Digging which comes from Warsaw, Poland-based indie folk/pop artist Tobiasz Bilinski aka Coldair off his stunning new album "Far South" (2011).

Coldair could best be described as a Polish Phil Elverum {Microphones/Mount Eerie}, he similarly challenges himself to explore the nightmarish inner world of his troubled soul, et then exposes it to the world through emotionally rousing, melancholy-fueled tales. Bilinski has even made a wonderful cover of the Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron & Fred Squire track Lost Wisdom, which you can listen to on Tobiasz's souncloud. enjoy!


MP3: Digging

the "Far South" album is out now, you can buy/stream it digitally from bandcamp.

like what you hear, then you can check out Coldair's debut album "Persephone", which is available digitally for streaming/downloading from his bandcamp, go et check it out!

you can find Coldair here: facebook
- inearlydiedofboredom.blogspot.com

Tobiasz Bilinksi writes in with two advance tracks from his solo LP:

Far South is a very personal and emotional record. The songs are based on my own experiences of the turbulent last year, when I was seeking a new place in the world, and exploring my own soul for new domain of creativity and inspiration. Far South is an affectional concept album, extraordinarily melancholic and direct in conveying emotions.

The cycle of turmoil and catharsis may sound familiar, and indeed Bilinksi shares Ari Picker’s delicate and upbeat manner, his quirky, meandering folk-pop structures. “I Wonder/Outdated” is a stellar opener, epic for the genre: the lazy first act plays as celestial and almost Paul-stretched, confident in its repose. Then the pulsing, optimistic “Outdated” boasts some crystalline vocals, brass textures, and near-baroque texturing.

The midsection of the album narrows the focus: “Digging,” “Shelters,” and “Together/Alone” are pure plectrum, benign laments driven as much by Bilinksi’s tapping foot than anything else sitting higher in the mix. Your favorite of these might be the latter, a populist, eyes-shut singalong, hushed and honest, restrained enough to make a full guitar strum seem clamorous. The final three tracks of the album ramp up the production, album closer “To Know” in particular, a polyphonic chi that builds from a vocal wisp to a full canopy: brass, wind, drum, and a downright post-rock tremolo guitar. Downright powerful.

When Far South shuns this noise and the texture is where the album falters. Indeed, at times it lapses into car commercial: “There” is well-written, and delicate, but only that, while the opening moments of “Together/Alone” seem like a nice guy with a guitar. We learn little new with Far South, and it seems that teaching is not Bilinksi’s intent in the first place. Instead, this is a 32-minute walk through a familiar and welcoming place with a new friend. - The Muse In Music

Tobiasz Bilinksi writes in with two advance tracks from his solo LP:

Far South is a very personal and emotional record. The songs are based on my own experiences of the turbulent last year, when I was seeking a new place in the world, and exploring my own soul for new domain of creativity and inspiration. Far South is an affectional concept album, extraordinarily melancholic and direct in conveying emotions.

The cycle of turmoil and catharsis may sound familiar, and indeed Bilinksi shares Ari Picker’s delicate and upbeat manner, his quirky, meandering folk-pop structures. “I Wonder/Outdated” is a stellar opener, epic for the genre: the lazy first act plays as celestial and almost Paul-stretched, confident in its repose. Then the pulsing, optimistic “Outdated” boasts some crystalline vocals, brass textures, and near-baroque texturing.

The midsection of the album narrows the focus: “Digging,” “Shelters,” and “Together/Alone” are pure plectrum, benign laments driven as much by Bilinksi’s tapping foot than anything else sitting higher in the mix. Your favorite of these might be the latter, a populist, eyes-shut singalong, hushed and honest, restrained enough to make a full guitar strum seem clamorous. The final three tracks of the album ramp up the production, album closer “To Know” in particular, a polyphonic chi that builds from a vocal wisp to a full canopy: brass, wind, drum, and a downright post-rock tremolo guitar. Downright powerful.

When Far South shuns this noise and the texture is where the album falters. Indeed, at times it lapses into car commercial: “There” is well-written, and delicate, but only that, while the opening moments of “Together/Alone” seem like a nice guy with a guitar. We learn little new with Far South, and it seems that teaching is not Bilinksi’s intent in the first place. Instead, this is a 32-minute walk through a familiar and welcoming place with a new friend. - The Muse In Music