TIME DECEPTION

Description

Meeting By Chance is a project by Marcin Cichy, one of the founders of the duo Skalpel. In addition to his work with his original group, Marcin has also gained international recognition through his collaboration with the late Lil Peep on their joint EP Changes. His new album under the name Meeting By Chance reveals another facet of Cichy's musical imagination. While Skalpel is known for its ability to transform jazz samples into cinematic downtempo soundscapes, this project leans more towards ambient, IDM, and classical electronic music. The title suggests its central theme: how time bends, stretches, and escapes perception. The musical sequences repeat like fragments of memory; rhythms appear and disappear; melodies emerge from vaporous layers of synthesizers. At times, the music evokes the cinematic worlds of Vangelis or Brian Eno, while elsewhere one can perceive echoes of the subtle minimalism of Susumu Yokota and Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as contemporary electronic sounds in the vein of Oneohtrix Point Never. A looping piano motif intertwines with vocal samples, ambient textures, a deep bass pulse, and jazz-inflected drums. The result is spacious and luminous – electronic music that, despite its digital tools, sounds surprisingly organic and intimate. This impression of "living" music is one of the most distinctive elements of the album. The drums are lively and tactile, never mechanical. It is no coincidence that the project draws inspiration from Duane Michals' famous 1970 photographic series, where two men cross paths in a narrow street, only to turn back moments later, as if they had recognized each other too late. Time Deception ultimately becomes more than just a collection of tracks: it is a meditation on memory, technology, and the strange elasticity of time, where machines seem to breathe at an almost human pace.