The music of Polish band Extensa, although based on a traditional three-member instrumental line-up, escapes obvious genre assignments. Perhaps this is what a soundtrack to a film about a spaceship landing on the roof of a 200-year-old hut in the mysterious borderlands of eastern Wielkopolska, where the band comes from, could sound like. Heavy sounds and trance noise alternate with elements of psychedelia, bringing to mind the prefix "post" when describing their style. During their concerts, they evoke the atmosphere of classic Polish science fiction; the ghosts of Wilhelmi, Maklakiewicz, and Szulkin appear, the perversely used words of the Nobel Prize winner ex-president and quotations from old radio plays. The band's line-up closed in 2021, and since then it has received rave reviews touring regularly from the capital to the border. In February 2023, Extensa recorded its first material at Warsaw's Mustache Ministry Studio under the watchful and caring eye of Marcin Klimczak and soon fell into the stern but wide-open eye of Uncle Gusstaff. "We didn't agree on anything, no piece was prepared at home in advance, no one brought ideas for rehearsals" - these are Andrzej's words. Everything is the result of "here and now". The magic of a moment that was successively immortalized in digital form and which we later tried to recreate and put together in an accessible form. The band consists of: Mariusz Wróblewski - drums, Andrzej Radniecki - bass, Paweł Wieloch - guitar. Not only for fans of Russian Circles, Neurosis, Isis, Amenra...
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