Rzekomo Drops New Album ‘The Gray Zone of Talk’

Some albums want your attention. The Gray Zone of Talk wants your concentration. The latest release from Polish project Rzekomo feels less like a collection of tracks and more like entering a carefully designed psychological environment — one where jazz guitar fragments drift through electronic structures, rhythms pulse softly in the background, and silence itself becomes part of the composition. It’s the third chapter in the ongoing 10 times 10 gives 100 series, a decade-long experiment in musical repetition, order, and creative discipline that somehow manages to feel increasingly alive with each installment.

Conceptually, the record is rooted in philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea of intuitive understanding — the notion that some forms of communication exist beyond language. Heavy stuff, yes. But crucially, Rzekomo never delivers these ideas with the suffocating seriousness that often plagues “concept albums.” Instead, the philosophy arrives indirectly, embedded in texture and pacing. Tracks fade in and out like unfinished thoughts. Melodies rarely resolve conventionally. The album seems fascinated by emotional implication rather than direct statement, and that restraint gives it unusual depth.

Musically, there’s plenty to get lost in. “which” balances microhouse-inspired rhythms with a nostalgic, granularly fractured guitar motif that sounds both digital and deeply human. “stronger” introduces a loosely played tambourine that gives the track a fragile, handmade pulse, while “be spoken” slowly builds tension with clarinet passages that feel almost cinematic. Throughout the album, acoustic and electronic elements blur together so seamlessly that it becomes difficult to tell where improvisation ends and programming begins. The result is intimate but slightly uncanny — like hearing live instruments dream in software.

Most impressive, though, is how natural the album feels despite its elaborate architecture. There’s no sense of a concept overpowering the music. If anything, The Gray Zone of Talk succeeds because it leaves room for ambiguity, humour, and emotional drift. It understands something many overly intellectual electronic records forget: people don’t connect to ideas alone. They connect to atmosphere, repetition, memory, and mood. Rzekomo may frame this project as an exploration of silence and intuition, but at heart it’s also a reminder that experimental music can still feel welcoming, tactile, and strangely comforting.

Represented by Decent Music PR, the album was developed with the support of ZAiKS as part of the Creative Support Fund (Fundusz Popierania Twórczości). Purchase the album on vinyl here.

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