The New Solarism

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” is set to be released in June 2026. The five-part cycle, which premiered in 2023 at the closing event of the exhibition “Einsteigen/Aussteigen” in Erlbach/Colditz, is now being released for the first time as a complete studio album. “The Train I-V” emerged 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 melancholic “Epistle to Yudin,” Kałduńska weaves classical violin technique with modern sound tools. Through loop stations, effects, text fragments, and vocals, hypnotic, liminal soundscapes unfold—spherical layers of strings that oscillate between dream and memory. The cycle is divided into five movements, strung together like the cars of an inner train: each part carries its own emotional hue—ranging from quiet contemplation to a welling longing, and culminating in moments of intense, transcendent glorification. The music invites you to let go: into the depths of your own thoughts, into the vastness of past letters, or into the intangible motion of a train that arrives nowhere yet keeps on moving. With her artistic background, Kałduńska builds a bridge between classical tradition and experimental sound art. “The Train I-V” promises to further develop the characteristic dream-like aesthetic of The New Solarism: immersive, emotional, and raw.