Polish Night Music, the collaborative musical effort of David Lynch and composer/pianist Marek Zebrowski, was first released as a limited edition CD back in 2007. On November 13th, the four track LP will be reissued on vinyl via Sacred Bones/Sunday Best, and it will come with a download code for Live at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland recorded by the pair back in 2006.
Lynch and Zebrowski first met at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland, and the classically trained pianist would go on to be Lynch’s translator during Inland Empire‘s location shooting in Poland. Bonding over a love of experimental music and composition, Lynch invited Zebrowski back to his music studio in California where the two would spend time improvising on the album’s four noir-leaning tracks. As Zebrowski explained to the Guardian this past October,
“(Poland) is a landscape that continues to remain at once familiar and completely alien to me. Every time I am there, I am surprised by something, and I think for David, Poland certainly represents the process of discovery.”
On “Night (A Landscape With Factory)“, the two create a crepuscular and spell-binding ambience. Lynch provides a barren drone of haunted strings setting the stage for Zebrowski’s late night piano meditation. Beautifully figured chords and single notes hang in the air like the smoke off a slow burning cigarette, as the pianist expertly explores attack and dynamics to cinematographic effect.
