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The Błoto we knew until now briefly ceased to exist in September 2025, somewhere in the backstreets of Bucharest’s Floreasca district. This was not an ending, though, but a new beginning and a conscious transformation. With their core left intact, the band expanded its lineup to include a pillar of the Romanian alternative scene, Ion D. That move became the catalyst for the most groundbreaking project in their career, this album 'Atmosfera'.
 
Błoto together with Ion D is no longer just the pavement of Wrocław, but also the concrete of Bucharest, psychedelia, and a shared Emerging Eastern Europe experience of transformation, translated into synthesizer-driven sound and inspired by local folklore. Within the textures of "Atmosfera", these elements resonate with full post-capitalist force, like an auteur film by Radu Jude. This is a record that parts ways with the jazz label without regret, or rather becomes 'jazz on the ruins of jazz', replacing it with a trance-like, unclassifiable sound that Ion loosely refers to as 'Eastern-Oriental'.

The musical foundation of "Atmosfera"is a genre-blending melting pot unlike anything in Błoto’s catalogue. Raw elements of bass, techno, house, and dark dub intersect with a hip-hop pulse. This machine-driven framework is enriched by global influences ranging from trance-inflected afrobeats and ethereal ambient textures to bold references to Romanian manele and sunlit balearic sounds.

TRACK LISTING

A1.Władza / Puterea
A2.System / Sistem
A3.Swawola / Dezmă
A4.Mobbing (feat. DJ Eprom)
A5.Korupcja / Corupție
A6.Wyzysk / Exploatare
A7.Bieda / Sărăcie (feat. Plevna)

B1.Aura
B2.Komfort / Confort
B3.Ekstaza / Extaz
B4.Euforia / Euforie (feat. Plevna)
B5.Pojednanie / Reconciliere (feat. Plevna)
B6.Wolność / Libertate