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Are You There

by Michał Łapaj

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Pieces 02:43
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FLYING BLIND Are you there? Do you hear me? Can you please just make a sound We both know It's so easy Indifference don't make you tough    And we're still lost in what's left unsaid I fall behind All these nameless things they leave me exposed I'm flying blind   Are you there? Do you hear me? Is this a game we've lost? We're running around an endless void We both know we'll never cross
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SHATTERED MEMORIES   Is there any way out of here? We go round and round restlessly Chasing illusions of control that make us all go numb   So you run through the night alone Trading courage for disdain As if you had another life to live, to start again   The world caves in and wherever you go  The walls you've built and the wars you've won Over and over come up again   I try to hear your voice from afar Shattered memories fade away I don't want to fight these ghosts anymore   Is there any way out of here? We go round and round restlessly Chasing illusions of control that make us all go numb   So you run through the night alone Trading courge for disdain To start again And wherever you go the same walls come up again I try to hear your voice from afar Shattered memories fade away Shattered memories fade
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SHELTER   Underneath my skin I keep all you left behind I cling on to it before it dissolves In the morning light This silence gets louder and louder through the night  But does it even matter in the place you are now? I feel I’m floating further away Chasing fleeting skies until we meet again   Underneath my skin I keep all you left behind There are words unsaid and things undone All those darkest times we didn’t care enough How I wish we could take it back take it back I feel I’m floating further away Can’t find my way through this traceless land    Anywhere I go Anywhere I go All roads take me back to the start I can’t escape what’s inside And I always fall   I feel I’m floating further away I feel I’m floating further away   *Anywhere I go…   Underneath my skin I keep all you left behind…
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In Limbo 11:40
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Unspoken 05:23
UNSPOKEN   You know, I thought I had it figured out… I thought…   But it seeps in… it seeps in through the cracks…  Through my bones…    Sooner or later… it won’t even matter So… this is it, yes…. that’s it
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Surfacing 07:02
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From Within 03:37

about

“Are You There” is the long-awaited debut album by Michał Łapaj – musician, keyboardist of the progrock band Riverside.

The album consists of both instrumental pieces and songs. It contains a lot of spacey atmosphere, and fans of post-rock, ambient and electronic music will surely be able to find something for themselves. It is diverse and at the same time coherent, filled with emotions, melancholy and darkness. It tries to find answers to the question of what happens to us when we do not understand each other and we wander between what was said and what was left unspoken.

The album features vocals by Mick Moss – the leader and singer of the British band Antimatter – and Bela Komoszyńska, the female force who fronts the Polish band Sorry Boys.

Łapaj is dedicated to achieving the best possible sound, which is why he plays mainly analog, so-called “live” keyboards – Hammond organ, piano, Rhodes piano or old analog synthesizers. All of them can be heard on the album in excellent quality. Virtually all instruments were recorded by Michał. The rhythm section features Artur Szolc (Annalist, Inside Again) playing the drums.

credits

released July 16, 2021

Created by Michał Łapaj

Co-producers Magda and Robert Srzedniccy

All tracks were recorded between X. 2016 – III. 2021
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Magda and Robert Srzedniccy at Serakos Studio, Warsaw, Poland

Lyrics by Paulina Kimbar-Łapaj

Artwork design and layout by Anthony Rondinone

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Special Guests:

Bela Komoszyńska – vocals on 'Shelter', 'Fleeting Skies'
Mick Moss – vocals on 'Flying Blind' , 'Shattered Memories'
Artur Szolc – drums and percussion

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Michał Łapaj Warsaw, Poland

Keyboardist and composer. Story telling through music and sound.

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