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FR 171: Martyna Basta Is Seeking Shelter in Sound

With just guitar, field recordings, and voice, the Polish musician is capable of stopping time.

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Philip Sherburne
May 26, 2026
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The first time I saw Martyna Basta perform, at Kraków’s Unsound in 2022, she left me spellbound. She performed in one of my favorite venues there: Kopernika 15, a surgical theater in a former medical college, where the audience sits arrayed on a circle of risers, staring down at the performer in the pit. I was familiar with her music, a ghostly assembla…

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