Upgrade! Warsaw: Electro-acoustic Concert — Sindre Bjerga, Nils Rostad, Thaw – Hubert Napiórski, CADAVeR – Piotr Olczak :: February 22, 2010; 8:00 pm :: 2.0 Gallery, The Academy of Music, 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland.

Sindre Bjerga has been wiretapping the secret frequencies of ghostly drones for years now. Though a steady flow of releases on numerous labels around the world he has been channeling the spectral transmissions from the grey void… Expect psychedelic drones that sometimes collide with snippets of found sounds from half-demagnetized tapes and concrete sounds from wrecked kitchen utensils… Recent releases: “Crystal cranium, diamond head” (Blackest Rainbow) and “Black Cobweb mind” (Klang und Krach).

Nils Rostad has been playing improvised guitar for years (in addition to being a painter). His style is self-taught and can be very intense and private, owing more to american primitives like Dredd Foole, Loren Connors or Christina Carter, than to the european avant-garde and the free jazz. Using both timbre, attack and volume as effects (in additon to effect pedals) his sound comes across as highly personal and sparse. He has also been playing as a duo w/ Sindre Bjerga under the name Magnetic North Duo.

Thaw- Hubert Napiórski under this alias he focuses himself on prepared, electroacoustic, noise, drone, field recording music.
Active since 1996 – his Astipalea Records project founded on 25th of August 2002. 
He is active in publishing likewise artists, Hubert is also the solely distributor of Creative Sources Records from Portugal. 
He is also active under two different aliases djfeaturing – abstract turntablism kitty_kit – 
improvised electroacoustic instruments solo in his work he operates mainly with acoustic and analogue techniques, plays also acoustic laptops. Takes his interests into the field of photography, writing.