Stara Rzeka is the one man musical project of Jakub 'Kuba' Zio?ek and means "old river" (which is also the name of a small village in the Bory Tucholskie region of Poland) in his native tongue. Zio?ek is a key player in the groups Alameda 3, Ed Wood, Innercity Ensemble, Hokei, T'ien Lai and Kapital, but it is here that his vision really shines. The reason all these strands of music fit together so well is that he relies solely on sounds, instruments and styles that have been used successfully to represent the sublimity of nature in the most deanthropomorphised and raw of ways, from drone metal, neofolk, cold wave and cosmic synths to space rock, weird folk, krautrock and black metal. It also deterritorialises the spaces round current forward-looking rock, metal, noise and ambient acts, and searches out new ground past their outer perimeters, from Swans, to Sunn O))), to Pinkunoizu, to Ben Frost, to Holden, to Guardian Alien.