Paweł Pruski – Polish music producer, electronic music artist. Also known as Minoo. He has released four albums so far. Known for his works recorded for Asfalt Records, Mad-Hop Records and Post Label. Actively involved in the creation and promotion of electronic music since 2007. Appeared live at Freeform Festival, Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival, WRO Festival and many more. He performed, among others, in China, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Russia, the Czech Republic and Belgium. He participated in the CHOP project aimed at promoting Polish experimental music in China. The result of this cooperation was the album Improvision (WePlay! Records) created with the Chinese artist Sin:Ned. When creating music under his own name Paweł Pruski focuses on the more experimental variants of electronic music. The purpose of this new beginning is to separate the existing projects from the new one, rooted in different aesthetic areas. He is on a search for sounds bordering on ambient, spacial dub, and electro-acoustic music. Sleeping Place is a debut album in that regard.
Concerts
09/12 /2023 – Cheder (Kraków)
26/10 /2023 – Kino Rejs (Słupsk)
13-15/10/2023 – Filmdager (Oslo)
06/08/2023 – Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury (19:00)
28/08/2023 – Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy
20/08 /2023 – Widoki (Kraków)
15/07 /2023 – Slot Art Festiwal
09/07/2023 – Cricoteka (Kraków)
06/07/2023 – Etnokraków / Rozstaje
30/06/2023 – Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej
18/06/2023 – Cisza w św. Krowie
03/06/2023 – Kolonia Artystów (Gdańsk)
26/05/2023 – Festiwal Spalnia (Tarnowskie Góry)
18/05/2023 – Goethe Instytut
30/04/2023 – Cisza/Cheder (Kraków)
11/03/2023 – Solar Renewal (ASP Katowice)
05/03/2023 – Cisza w św. Krowie
19/02/2023 – Widoki x Cisza
18/12/2022 – Cisza w św. Krowie
10/12/2022 – Festiwal Filmu Niemego
24/09/2022 – Music Trail Festiwal
24/09/2022 – Music Trail Festiwal
28/08/2022 – Widoki
27/08/2022 – Uszanowanko Festiwal
21/08/2022 – Teatr Łaźnia Nowa
08/08/2022 – Krakowski Festiwal Tańca
16/07/2022 – Ambient Festiwal 2022
03/07/2022 – Salon Ambientu UTP
12/03/2022 – Chader
22/01/2021 – TBA (Rzeszow)
29/01/2022 – Klub 303
12/12/2021 – Ogrody Sztuki
04/12/2021 – Festiwal Filmu Niemego
24/10/2021 – Widoki
28/08/2021 – Ambient w Poraju
19/08/2021 – Etno Kraków
25/07/2021 – Cisza w Radiu Kraków
16/07/2021 – Kolonia Artystów
08/02/2021 – Defekt Masy
27/06/2021 – Cisza – Ambient w św. Krowie
13/06/2021 – Gadafest Ambientowy Before
19/12/2020 – Fala dźwięku (Warszawa)
06/12/2020 – Festiwal Filmu Niemego (Kraków)
20/09/2020 – św. Krowa (Kraków)
13/09/2020 – Pop up Radio (Kraków)
12/07/2020 – Św. Krowa (Kraków)
14/06/2020 – Audiotalaila Festiwal
03/05/2020 – KSND live streaming
26/04/2020 – BAL (Kraków)
23/02/2020 – Cisza w Św. Krowie (Kraków)
25/01/2020 – Klub 89 urodziny Off Radio Kraków (Kraków)
12/01/2020 – Cricoteka (Kraków)
21/12/2019 – Beat Light Festiwal
17/12/2019 – Zasypianie
07/12/2019 – Drzwi Zwane Koniem (Katowice)
10/11/2019 – Św. Krowa (Kraków)
20/10/2019 – Młodsza Siostra (Warszawa)
19/10/2019 – Las (Olsztyn)
06/10/2019 – Niezła Sztuka (Rzeszów)
05/10/2019 – Sygnał/Szum (Płock)
22/09/2019 – Muzeum Nowej Huty
21/09/2019 – Kulturhauz (Toruń)
14/09/2019 – Kolonia Artystów (Gdańsk)
13/09/2019 – Tłok (Gdynia)
07/09/2019 – Hevre (Kraków)
06/09/2019 – ArsTechne
27/07/2019 – Cisza w Plenerach (Kraków)
24/04/2019 – Szpitalna 1 (Kraków)
23/03/2019 – Before Ambientalny 2019
23/10/2019 – Festiwal Ars Cameralis 2018
18/10/2019 – Muzeum Nowej Huty
11/10/2019 – Klub SPATiF (Warszawa)
28/10/2019 – Patchlab Festival (Kraków)
27/10/2018 – Galeria Sztuki (Płock)
09/09/2019 – Kolonia Artystów (Gdańsk)
09/09/2019 – Alchemia (Kraków)
Discography
Moments of Immersion (2022 / Whitelabrecs)
- Bandcamp: https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/moments-of-immersion
‘Moments of Immersion’ is Pruski’s sixth album. The album is a development of earlier ambient experiments and techniques and there is a balance of three elements: field recordings, processed tape sounds and modular synthesizer. The title of the album alludes to the immersion in several moments. It is not a reflection of some space or time but rather, of experienced moments. Interpretation of subjective experiences from which individual elements have been removed, leaves only a hazy outline of a background. It is a development of the main idea of ambient, in which the music harmonises with a specific space. In this case, the space is changed with the feelings of the moment, for whoever is listening.
Whispers (2021 / Whitelabrecs)
- Bandcamp: https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/whispers
Returning to our catalog, Pruski has created ‘Whispers’, a series of organic drones created using an OP-1 modular synthesiser which has been a key source of experimentation, discovery and evaluation for several years. Part of the production process fell during lockdown, in which there were limitations on travel and human interaction. On the other hand, Pruski started walking a lot in the forests around him, allowing him to listen and connect with nature; he would encounter the rustle of leaves that began to resemble whispers. It was from here that he had the idea of nature’s constant whisper, evident all around us, if we choose to listen. Each track represents a whisper from the natural world, which combine as a whole to be a metaphysical journey.
Between (2020 / Krysalisound)
- Bandcamp: https://krysalisound.bandcamp.com/album/between
Between. It is interesting to look for what lies between the words, between the moments, between the first and the next particle of sound. There is a completely different picture of music. Its structure is no longer linear and the whole thing is freezing over time. There is no earlier and no later, there is no history and no future, there is no cause and effect. There is only a single moment levitating „in between”. We don’t need any kind of language or descriptions. „Between” is just a set of these moments
Playground (2020 / Whitelabrecs)
- Bandcamp: https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/playground
- Reviews: Nowamuzyka.pl
Playground is a journey into a child’s world. A world without sophisticated sentences, complicated relationships or conventions. Here, the most important things are gestures, curiosity and surprise. It is discovering what is around, fascinated by nature. It is an attempt to look from the side back to the beginning of our journey in this world. What was it like to be surprised by the colour of the leaves, rain, and the ticking of the clock? For this is a journey to a place where the tree is the whole world, and a small meadow can be the whole cosmos.
Home Diaries (2020 / Whitelabrecs)
- Bandcamp: https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/home-diaries-005
Black Birds (CD/2018) – Second ambient/drone album.
- Bandcamp: https://pruski.bandcamp.com
- Promo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAv5CbESo68&t=1267s
- Reviews: Nowamuzyka
Sleeping Places (CD/2018) – We are witnesses of constant change. Places change, people around us change, we change. Most of these changes are fluid. Unwittingly, every second we become someone new. We become blurred in time. One hair fell out. After 140 thousand repetitions we are bald. Cities, nations, ideas disappear – the natural passage of time. The steady stream of changes flows through us as well. Our internal life constantly clashes with the outside world. Memories encoded in our neurons begin to direct us towards emptiness. The places to which they refer ceased to exist – they fell asleep. Sleeping Places is the debut album of Paweł Pruski. Formerly known as Minoo, in this new endeavor he takes his listeners on a trip through the worlds of ambient and experimental electronics. The leading part of the album are synthetic sounds combined with processed field recordings. Conceptually the album is not an attempt to create a musical illustration of any place in particular. It is an interpretation of what is left only in memory, what is no longer a part of our reality. It is the end resultant of combining subjective memories, fragments that survived in the form of sounds.
- Bandcamp:https://pruski.bandcamp.com
- Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/279431940
- Reviews: Nowamuzyka / Onet.pl / Polityka