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Airchina, aka Nikolai Szymanski (born 1986, Düsseldorf), is a musician and visual artist. He uses a wide variety of media in relation to his work, with a focus on film/video, performance and music. Together with Lucas Croon and Martin Sonnensberger, he is a founding member as well as singer and lyricist of the band Stabil Elite. Listening to the new LP by Nikolai Szymanski, aka Airchina, you can hear threads back to his LP 1 (2018), in which sounds wove themselves silky-thin and -beautiful into a fine fabric of ambient and sound art, and whose powdery narrative continued in LP 2 (ITA 115LP, 2020) as a more plastic structure of electronic with nuances of pop. LP 3 is at once more constructive and more subtle in its compositional substance: a musical and diversely condensing emotional space in which all the (experiential) knowledge from what he had previously composed comes together in a body of work. Here, the momentary flows into a performative choreography in which each musical setting begins to shine prismatically and each individual track becomes an independently acting corpus in the structure of the whole. Includes printed inner sleeve.
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Airchina is a weightless instrumental machine music, sometimes ghostly anthropomorphized with a hushed voice or a synthetic choir. Airchina is playful-melodious electronic music of and for today, which also takes its cue from global ambient and pop music from the end of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s. Airchina is a solo project by Nikolai Szymanski. LP 2 is his second release, his debut album LP 1 was released in summer 2018 on Italic.
Nikolai Szymanski (born 1986, Düsseldorf) is an artist living and working in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany. He uses a wide variety of media with a focus on film/video, performance and music --whereby all areas give each other impulses. In a narrower artistic framework (exhibition, gallery) he stages his works site-specifically and in installations. Performative interventions (for example at BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Summer 2019) form the soft transition to his musical work. Together with Lucas Croon and Martin Sonnensberger Nikolai Szymanski is a founding member as well as singer of the band Stabil Elite. After concerts in China, Szymanski created the video work Airchina, the title he uses as a name for his current solo project; in his musical work Nikolai Szymanski is responsible for composition, lyrics, production, singing and performance, paying attention to a stringent appearance from cover design to stage appearance.
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