POROSTY (formerly Mchy i porosty) is Bartosz Zaskórski’s outlet for distorted beats, goth synths, bizarre samples and screamed vocals drowned in reverb.
Zaskórski has released on Smashing Tape Records, Not Not Fun, Syntetyk, Recognition Records, Pointless Geometry and Brutaż. Porosty’s music has been featured in the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, Jagoda Czarnowska's animated movie (Annecy Festival 2024), and promoted a collection by acclaimed fashion designer Magda Butrym. Zaskórski has been making music under various aliases for 16 years, having started with a queer harsh noise project ANNNA. Porosty has performed at the Unsound festival, the Griessmuehle club in Berlin and many venues in Poland, live gigs with the black metal band Gruzja, Zamilska, the Polish post-punk scene, among others. Zaskórski is also a visual artist and comic book author, collaborating with the Italian publishing house Hollow Press. For two years Zaskórski volunteered in a dog shelter (thus a lot of Porosty's lyrics are about stray dogs)
Live video from Dungeon Crawler release party (with Chino and Olivia). Piękny Pies, Kraków, 2024
Photos by (from right): Adam Malik (1), Damian Dragański (2), Hanna Rozpara (3), Marta Zelent (4)
Mchy i porosty - BERNHARD (Syntetyk, split with DOGPATROL)
88.3 Pacific Dreams / Cyberpunk 2077 / Muchomorr
Mchy i porosty - Deathtrap (Syntetyk, split with DOGPATROL)
Music video by Rafał RUFUS Pietrowicz.
Untitled EP - BRUTAŻ 03, 4'18", 2016-2017
A story of young people in black overalls who, despite of their comfortable isolation, discover a black beach resembling a leak from a tanker in their hearts.
video by Rafał RUFUS Pietrowicz
text: Bartosz Zaskórski
cast: Leonia Stromberg Paweł Krawczyk
greenscreen camera operator: Krzysztof Zygalski Piotr Ceglarek
makeup: Agata Grzybowska
foundfootage: Bartosz Zaskórski Katarzyna Kolanek
text: Bartosz Zaskórski
cast: Leonia Stromberg Paweł Krawczyk
greenscreen camera operator: Krzysztof Zygalski Piotr Ceglarek
makeup: Agata Grzybowska
foundfootage: Bartosz Zaskórski Katarzyna Kolanek
Strange death
Untitled Ep - BRUTAŻ 03, 3'28", 2017
Someone is dying and is astonished with the experience. Dying is vaguely connected to movement - plant dance. Also with sounds from Rayman games. The concept of plant dance is based on the research of eng. Urszula Zajączkowska, PhD.
direction and concept: Monika Grażyna Olszewska, Patrycja Kuracińska
camera: Monika Grażyna Olszewska, Patrycja Kuracińska
edit: Monika Grażyna Olszewska
camera: Monika Grażyna Olszewska, Patrycja Kuracińska
edit: Monika Grażyna Olszewska
Not many friends
Doomed molecular waste
Hypnagogic Polish Music For Teenage Mutants, Recognition Records, 4'43", 2017
Video: Dominika Wollman
Memetic magic of X
Dead pterodactyl, Kikimora Tapes, 4'03"
Source: Brutalism for the glory of death VR video by Rufus Rufson & Monika Olszewska
Editing: Rafał "DJ RAFIX" Ziemiński aka Ryj Świński
Cholewa
Untitled EP - BRUTAŻ 03, 3'45", 2018
Video: Rafał Rufus Pietrowicz
motion capture actor: Iga Świeściak
Mchy i porosty live
Perpetuum Mobile, Serce, Kraków 02.02.2018
Video: Jakub Słabek
Wężowe ruchy jej ciała
Untitled EP - BRUTAŻ 03, 4'20", 2017
Video: Jan Dybała and Bartosz Zaskórski.
POROSTY (formerly Mchy i porosty) is Bartosz Zaskórski’s outlet for distorted beats, goth synths, bizarre samples and screamed vocals drowned in reverb.
Zaskórski has released on Not Not Fun, Syntetyk, Pointless Geometry and Brutaż. Porosty’s music has been featured in the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, Jagoda Czarnowska's animated movie (Annecy Festival 2024), and promoted a collection by acclaimed fashion designer Magda Butrym. They have been making music under various aliases for 16 years, having started with a queer harsh noise project ANNNA. They are also a visual artist and comic book author, collaborating with the Italian publishing house Hollow Press.
Black beach in my heart
Untitled EP - BRUTAŻ 03, 4'18", 2016-2017
A story of young people in black overalls who, despite of their comfortable isolation, discover a black beach resembling a leak from a tanker in their hearts.
video by Rafał RUFUS Pietrowicz
text: Bartosz Zaskórski
cast: Leonia Stromberg Paweł Krawczyk
greenscreen camera operator: Krzysztof Zygalski Piotr Ceglarek
makeup: Agata Grzybowska
foundfootage: Bartosz Zaskórski Katarzyna Kolanek
text: Bartosz Zaskórski
cast: Leonia Stromberg Paweł Krawczyk
greenscreen camera operator: Krzysztof Zygalski Piotr Ceglarek
makeup: Agata Grzybowska
foundfootage: Bartosz Zaskórski Katarzyna Kolanek
Strange death
Untitled Ep - BRUTAŻ 03, 3'28", 2017
Someone is dying and is astonished with the experience. Dying is vaguely connected to movement - plant dance. Also with sounds from Rayman games. The concept of plant dance is based on the research of eng. Urszula Zajączkowska, PhD.
direction and concept: Monika Grażyna Olszewska, Patrycja Kuracińska
camera: Monika Grażyna Olszewska, Patrycja Kuracińska
edit: Monika Grażyna Olszewska
camera: Monika Grażyna Olszewska, Patrycja Kuracińska
edit: Monika Grażyna Olszewska
88.3 Pacific Dreams / Cyberpunk 2077 / Muchomorr
Not many friends
Doomed molecular waste
Hypnagogic Polish Music For Teenage Mutants, Recognition Records, 4'43", 2017
Video: Dominika Wollman
Memetic magic of X
Dead pterodactyl, Kikimora Tapes, 4'03"
Source: Brutalism for the glory of death VR video by Rufus Rufson & Monika Olszewska
Editing: Rafał "DJ RAFIX" Ziemiński aka Ryj Świński
Cholewa
Untitled EP - BRUTAŻ 03, 3'45", 2018
Video: Rafał Rufus Pietrowicz
motion capture actor: Iga Świeściak
Wężowe ruchy jej ciała
Untitled EP - BRUTAŻ 03, 4'20", 2017
Video: Jan Dybała and Bartosz Zaskórski.
Mchy i porosty live
Perpetuum Mobile, Serce, Kraków 02.02.2018
Video: Jakub Słabek