The first release on Decemberism records is a document of the temporary bar that the artists Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska ran for one month in Warsaw, 2003, in collaboration with Foundation Gallery Foksal. In a limited release of 1000, with extravagant pop-up gatefold sleeve, the LP presents the music of: donAteller, Bianca Glazebrook, Mathilde Rosier, Nightshift, Marcin Dutka. All of whom played live in the illegal salon, many performing material specially written for Nova Popularna. An eclectic mix including house, show tunes and prepared piano, the record reflects the amalgam of finesse that was that place.

donAteller is an ongoing collaborative project from London. The work comprises records, CDs, live performance, video, various forms of publicity and other strategies associated with the promotion and distribution of pop music. All tracks involve the re-editing and mis-matching of popular melodies and lyrics. donaAteller are, were, or have been, at various times Ed Liq, Mark Leckey, Bonnie Camplin and Enrico David. They have released CDs, artefacts and 7"s through High Society Records, Cabinet and GBE.

Bianca Glazebrook was born in 1975 in London. She studied vocals at the Warsaw Academy of Music, graduating in 2000. Biancas repertoire is a mixture of classical jazz, blues and cabaret songs, which she performs in galleries and salons in Warsaw and London. She also performs with experimental audio-visual group RH+.

Mathilde Rosier is from Paris and devotes her time to filmmaking, painting and song writing. Her work featured here was performed live as a duet with a hidden piano which emanated from behind a curtain, actually generated by a soundsystem.

Nightshift are the artists Makus Selg and Marcel Hüppauff. Their music blends samples from Ibiza house, soul and cock rock with vocals, performed in a ravishing style. Releases include on their own Parfüm label, through L’AGE D’OR / LADO Musik and in 2004 they released their first album Still Crazy After All These Years on DIAL records.

Marcin Dutka was born in 1974 and studied painting and mural design in the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw, finishing his MA degree in 1999. Since seven years old he had taken violin lessons, but when twenty he decided to concentrate on investigations in music with piano. He uses piano as a whole body instrument. He still works in fine art, painting and music and often combines all of the above. Some of the recorded concerts include: Teatr Studio, â Szpachla na Fortepianâ 2004, Kielce â Preparated Pianoâ 2003, Marcin Dutka also makes music for short length feature films.

Bonnie Camplin is a musician, artist, dj and club organiser from London. Featuring previously on DEC 01 Nova Popularna, as a member of donateller, Decemberism are proud to present this, her solo LP. It’s a collection of electronic compositions, working with samples and simple programmes. She deconstructs optimistic, familiar music, and remodels it with a sleeker and more autonomous soul. She shows with Cabinet, London, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015.

Alasdair Gray, born Glasgow 1934, produces fiction, theatre, criticism of politics and literature and in visual art mural painting, illustration and book design. His first novel Lanark, written as both autobiography and socialist science fiction, was developed over a period of 30 years and is a landmark in English language literature; he is the leading figure in the creation of a contemporary Scottish imagination. This, his first audio collection on vinyl, spans his career and includes poem, short story and song read by the author. The sleeve artworks are from his personal archive, and are classic examples of his visionary illustration.

The Male Nurse was formed in Edinburgh in 1993 by visual artist Keith Farquhar. In their six years they released four 7inch singles, recorded two John Peel Sessions, and played rare, but memorable gigs. Their hybridisation of art, obscure cultural reference and working class male identity politics, and experimental recording and performance style conveys their kinship to post punk bands such as The Fall. The Male Nurse shared several members with the bands Country Teasers and The Yummer Fur. Here for the first time on Decemberism, the definitive LP.