The album was recorded at least 2 times. It was supposed to be the first concept album of Kotołak.
Life likes to write different scenarios and plan everything its own way. Ultimately, it didn’t become a concept album, but rather a collection of emotions and thoughts, as well as a description of my internal transformations. However, I don’t complain about it.
I don’t consider the album to be a loss because of that, and I can still return to the old concept of “Witchcraft”.
This is the first album I’ve ever written. My first journey into the world of musical imagination. Many advised to start with simple things, but I thought that simple things are for losers. Right from the first composition, I started experimenting and I was over the moon. Writing this album was a kind of madness and an attempt to cleanse myself of negative emotions.
Work on the album started in earnest when a certain guy seriously boosted my ego during a jam session. An insecure man chose a fellow insecure person. The law of attraction in action. That’s when, to show what I could become, I started practicing and working on the album… for too long. I wanted to start from a high note, so I came up with a concept album about the war between the holy inquisition and pagan witches. The only track consistent with this concept is the titular “Witchcraft”.
As I mentioned, life likes to write its own scripts. As a person identifying as idiosexual at the time, I fell in love with someone who hurt me. This event was another catalyst for internal transformations, the image of which found its way onto the album. “Lie” was something written to him, for him. A piece about a heavy history, a kind of patchwork. Yes, I once lost a big part of it and tried to recreate it by ear… it was easier for me to create something sounding similar than identical to the original version. “Live Between Heaven and Hell” also came to me then when I started to face drastic mood swings again. In reality, it describes bipolar disorder, which I was suspected of several times. Another description of my emotional state was “Emptiness,” or “Buduję siebie na nowo”(pl.”Building Myself Anew.”) I deliberately wanted it to sound so ugly. It tells about ugly things… about how a person settles with themselves and then everything turns to dust.
“Witchcraft” is also the first recording of my sociological observations. “Wilki”(pl.”Wolves”) describe different kinds of human predation. “Więźniowie ślepoty”( pl.”Prisoners of Blindness”) are primarily about indoctrination, creating people who won’t even consider whether what’s being pushed on them is true or not. In “Autorefleksja” (pl.”Self-reflection”), I asked whether I am a person who accepts false beliefs and pushes them onto others. “Kurwa babilońska” (pl.”Whore of Babylon”) will be seen by many as a satanic text. The main moral of it is that all traps and evil also come in the form of apparent light, which with beautiful words convinces us of things that make us weaker. As you can see, “Witchcraft” was truly an incredible musical adventure for me, where I took the first steps in creating my sound.
Today the album is still in the demo phase and will be recorded at least one more time.