Israfil (known as the angel of the trumpet in Islam and as the archangel Raphael to the Western World), is an album of bipolar music, dark, yet colourful, oscillating between joy of living and deep melancholy. Shek`s 3rd Album on Fax lives from the thoughts and conscious differences between earth and space. The music springs forth lovely and deep, while radiating the vibe of the hot summer as well as the cold winter, and can really get a crowd moving. The flow of harmonic and melodic structure is felt first, then heard, whether in our living room of your favourite night club. Krystian Shek at his best in Chill-Out and Techno.

Five years after Krystian Shek released his debut solo album on FAX, he gave us this new, extraordinary CD. His music presents itself as a fresh version of chill out and techno. His album is not inspired by the terrible wars of our time, but by the way people treat each other when they meet each other in everyday environments such as airports and train stations. Krystian Shek collected these impressions and converted them into musical ideas. He doesn't describe the encounter, but shows the different perspectives in their own, beautiful way and manages to let them coexist peacefully.

"This CD is a soundtrack to Krystian Shek's journey to Russia... from Moskau to St.Petersburg in the wintertime of 2002/03. His sounds and compositions reflect the cold and hard atmosphere of the environment on the one hand and the deep and melancholic soul of the Russians on the other. 'In Russia there is a lot of poverty but at the same time deep friendship and networking of a quality rarely found in western society...' the artist says. The music on this CD connects the roots of techno-club-culture with atmospheric soundscapes to a new definition of beat oriented Environmental/Ambient."