The New Solarism // Support: Gabriel Martinez Zavala – Neoclassical/Cinematic/Violin

Leipzig-based composer and violinist Izabela Kałduńska, better known as The New Solarism, is preparing her audience for a new musical journey: The album "The Train I-V" will be released in June 2026. The five-part cycle, which was premiered in 2023 at the finissage of the exhibition "Einsteigen/Aussteigen" in Erlbach/Colditz, is now being released as a complete studio album for the first time.

"The Train I-V" was created as an intermedia reflection: inspired by the short film by Russian artist Olga Chernysheva, the elegiac Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 and Alexander Pushkin's melancholy "Epistle to Yudin", Kałduńska interweaves classical violin technique with modern means of sound. Hypnotic, liminal soundscapes unfold via loop station, effects, text fragments and vocals - spherical layers of strings that oscillate between dream and memory.

The cycle is divided into five movements, which are strung together like carriages of an inner train: Each part carries its own emotional color - from quiet contemplation to bursting longing to moments of intense, transcendent glorification. The music invites you to let yourself go: into the depths of your own thoughts, into the vastness of past letters or into the intangible movement of a train that arrives nowhere and yet keeps on going.

With her artistic background, Kałduńska creates a bridge between classical tradition and experimental sound art. "The Train I-V" promises to further develop the characteristic dream aesthetic of The New Solarism: immersive, emotional and raw.