After his previous long running project, Meinhof broke up, Jarek felt that the void it created, the lack of ability to express himself both musically and in a message was too unbearable. So he formed a new band, raw d-beat Japenese hardcore infused Tystvar, but it wasn’t enough. Hungry for more creative endeavours, he started to think about some other form to express himself, a project that would be a kind of solo expression of his musical and lyrical expression. That’s how MORTAR got into existence. Mortar is a natural continuation of Jarek’s path he took in the 90s with Polish crust punk band Silna Wola, fueled by Scandinavian d-beat, with all due honor to old school sound of HM-2 boss distortion pedal. “I thought it might work as a solo project similarly to what ...