Greetings fellow Auditory Adventurer …

Nicholas Krolak here … bassist/composer : city-dweller/nature lover …

 Describing one's own music is a difficult challenge … however, I'll give it a shot …

 I make music that I sometimes refer to as 'Eco-Jazz' … I'm not sure if that is a real term or not, but to be honest with you … (I don't really care)

 One time after a concert, a fan said to me 'you don’t play jazz, you play Eco-Jazz' and I loved it … so now, when asked 'what kind of music do you play?' … sometimes I say 'Eco-Jazz!'

Other times I call my music ‘art-punk’, and again, I don’t know what that means …

To be honest, this whole genre thing is pretty silly to me … I enjoy exploring … that’s really it … I follow my interests in the moment … end of story …

 Does that work for you?

 If not, here's another way I like to describe my music … it's kind of my 'elevator pitch' … When asked to describe my sound … sometimes I'll say something like …

 'Charles Mingus meets Radiohead' or 'Wayne Shorter mixed with Sigur Ros' … that usually gets the job done.

 Or, if you prefer …

here is a quote from one of my favorite music critics of all time that really hits the nail on the head!

“a different kind of songwriter—perhaps a different kind of musician altogether. He’s like the bass-playing, modern embodiment of Walt Whitman. And, just as Whitman used his prose poems, Krolak uses his music to celebrate and also reconcile the competing and contradictory nature of the two worlds he straddles: the natural and the urban."

Matt Silver - WRTI

  Either way, I think of making, performing, and listening to music as an adventure in sound … one that I hope you will join me on …

Sincerely, 

KRL