Episode 40: FASHION (or, MONEY IS FERTILIZER) - with Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher

Sound Propositions

The second part of a special double feature, returning us to Krakow’s Unsound festival, where we began with Episode 1. The inaugural episode featured Resina and Lea Bertucci, from Poland and New York, respectively, and so for the sake of symmetry, this episode pairs Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher, two artists who make affective, vocal-based music, but to very different affects. That is to say, this is an episode that leans into contrasts: the US and Europe, home and away, morning and night, quiet and noise. We discuss non-dance DJ sets, the relationship between music and fashion, the joys and difficulties of traveling as an artist, and the adventurous programming of Unsound.

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Antonina Nowacka - “Transit” (Sylphine Soporifera, Mondoj, 2024)
Antonina Nowacka - “Part 7” (Lamunan, Mondoj, 2020)
Antonina Nowacka - “KOGUT 2” (Vocal Sketches From Oaxaca, Takuroku/Mondoj, 2021)A.N.R.S - “III” (A.N.R.S., Requiem Records, 2016)Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - “Behind The Hill” Languoria, Mondoj, 2022)
WIDT - “Soma” (WIDT, Zoharum, 2016)
Antonina Nowacka - “Turning Into Dolphins” (Sylphine Soporifera, Mondoj, 2024)
Mentos Gulgendo - "Ionesendr" (Mentos Gulgendo, 2020)
DREAMCRUSHER - “CISHET” (CISHET, 2019)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Shopping” (Suite TWO, PTP, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Side A [excerpt]” (Another Country, PTP, 2020)DREAMCRUSHER - “Sick World” (Sick World, 2016)Kill Alters - live excerpt (Unsound Krakow, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER (ft. Dis Fig) - Chrysalis (Chrysalis (Suite), Bandcamp, 2022)
KING VISION ULTRA - “UNTRAPPINGS (with Dreamcrusher)” (Shook World (Hosted by Algiers), PTP, 2023)
KING VISION ULTRA - “Paper Chase (with Dreamcrusher)” (Shook World (Hosted by Algiers), PTP, 2023)
Armand Hammer - “Gripewater” (BLK LBL, 2024) Armand Hammer - “[Dreamcrusher interlude] (We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, Fat Possum, 2023)DREAMCRUSHER - (Side B [excerpt]” (Panopticon!, PTP, 2020)
Centennial Gardens - “dreamstate” (archive live 03​.​26​.​2023 mucho stereo, PTP, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER - “In Due Time” (Suite ONE, PTP, 2023)DREAMCRUSHER - “Antifa Baker” (Suite TWO, PTP, 2023)
SP Outro

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.