Based in Kraków, Poland, Martyna Basta conveys a ‘diaristic hauntology’ through her music. Classically trained in guitar, at age eighteen, she replaced her native instrument with a synthesizer, and soon developed a unique way of composing, centered around the modulation of her voice, electronics, and field recordings.

This transformation was first captured on her debut album Making Eye Contact with Solitude, released by Warm Winters in 2021, which introduced her as part of a new wave of the European experimental scene. Returning to acoustic instruments such as the guitar and zither, she refined her electro-acoustic sound on the album Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering (2023). A month-long residency in the frozen city of Turku further expanded her sonic vocabulary, leading to the EP Diaries Beneath Fragile Glass, released by Stroom in 2023, and to collaborations with claire rousay, Adela Mede, and Lisa Lerkenfeldt.