Meeting By Chance - Time Deception Meeting By Chance

Meeting By Chance is a project by Marcin Cichy, one of the founders of the legendary duo Skalpel.

Beyond his work with his home formation, Marcin also gained international recognition through his collaboration with the late Lil Peep on their joint EP Changes. His new album as Meeting By Chance reveals another side of Cichy’s musical imagination.

While Skalpel became known for transforming jazz samples into cinematic downtempo soundscapes, this project moves closer to ambient, IDM and classical electronic music. The title hints at its central theme: the way time bends, stretches and slips away from perception. Musical sequences loop like fragments of memory; rhythms appear and dissolve; melodies emerge from misty layers of synthesizers. At times the music evokes the cinematic worlds of Vangelis or Brian Eno, while elsewhere one can hear echoes of the subtle minimalism of Susumu Yokota and Ryuichi Sakamoto, alongside contemporary cinematic electronics in the spirit of Oneohtrix Point Never.

The single “Too Far” captures the character of the album particularly well. A looping piano motif intertwines with vocal samples, ambient textures, a deep bass pulse and almost jazz-like drums. The result is spacious and luminous - electronic music that, despite its digital tools, sounds strikingly organic and intimate. This sense of “breathing” music is one of the most distinctive elements of the record. The drums feel lively and tactile, never mechanical.

Cichy’s music unfolds like a sequence of images - like photographs placed side by side, where meaning emerges in the space between frames. It is no coincidence that the project’s name comes from the famous 1970 photographic series by Duane Michals, in which two men pass each other in a narrow street, only to turn around moments later, as if they had recognized one another too late.

Time Deception ultimately becomes more than a collection of tracks - it is a meditation on memory, technology and the strange elasticity of time, where machines seem to breathe with an almost human rhythm.