„What is a song today? Does it need a distinct melody, rhythm, and chorus? Or are a few piano notes, a synthesiser backdrop, and a voice that hovers between singing, whispering, and shouting enough?

Gołos x Jasinska strip the song down almost to its bare bones. Instead of full arrangements, they leave us with miniatures, repeated arpeggios and short passages in which subtle shifts and micro-changes are paramount. These are songs built more on gestures than on structure – reminiscent of the experiments of Jenny Hval, or Mariam Wallentin, and, in the sparse interweaving of piano and synthesisers, at times evoking a beatless James Blake.

Emilia Gołos builds this music using the piano – including prepared piano – and sparse synthesiser lines. Sometimes, the two instruments blend so seamlessly that it is difficult to tell where the acoustic sound ends and the electronics begin. Zuza Jasinska sings delicately and almost directly, but she also processes her voice, stretches it, or transforms it into a drawn-out, wordless sound. They therefore do not so much answer the question of what a song is today as test how little of it can remain for it to be still a song.”

Jakub Knera

Gołos x Jasinska bio

Gołos x Jasinska is a musical collaboration between pianist Emilia Gołos and vocalist Zuza Jasinska, rooted in friendship and a shared artistic vision. Together, they create music that is intimate, fragile, and minimal, yet strikingly expressive, with a strong emphasis on emotional depth. They combine experimental approaches with song-based forms, blending the acoustic with the electronic and the tonal with the atonal. Their debut album, „imho”, was released in 2021, and their second album „garden without a home” will premiere in November 2026 on the Austrian label Boomslang Records.

Gołos’ extended piano techniques meet Jasinska’s voice, moving between jazz, folk, singer-songwriter traditions, and the avant-garde. Their music is marked by a great sense of patience: sounds are allowed to sustain and decay, vibrations overlap, and subtle shifts in micro-dynamics unfold over time, creating a fragile and intimate listening experience.