Olga Anna Markowska

A day with Olga Anna Markowska: on her acclaimed, wondrous debut album ISKRA, the Polish composer and multi-instrumentalist uses zither, cello, and electronics to carefully craft sonic observations between “Dawn” and “Dusk.” With subtle shifts and finely honed details, Markowska sketches out the course of the day as a clear sequence of changing light moods. Her music, residing somewhere between modern classical and ambient, finds home in the penumbra and its tonal interstices. The album tells the story of emotions and lived experiences that are almost impossible to translate into words: growing up, abandonment, loneliness, the loss of someone close, and those teenage first passions unfolding in the wildness of nature where Olga Anna Markowska was raised.