Polaroid Sky by Caught In Joy

This album came together like most of my music does — a mix of inspiration, analog chaos, and hoping that no gear will die mid-take :) It’s somewhere between Kraftwerk doing math in a dream, Tangerine Dream floating through a satellite dish, and Boards of Canada sending postcards from the past via Dire Straits' Telegraph Road.

It’s all instrumental - live takes with a few gentle edits to keep the weird bits weird and the beautiful bits intact. I played everything, including piano sounds I sculpted on the Moog One (because why not turn a spaceship into a piano).

The whole thing feels like a message from a parallel 1977 - warm, wobbly, and oddly hopeful.

If you’re into synth voyages, quiet drama, or music that sounds like it remembers your childhood better than you do - I’d love to share this with you.

Let’s get caught in joy together - video performance premieres on Youtube Fri 12PM EST: https://youtu.be/kAgwa9Hh9YQ

Tracklist

1.	Viewfinder Dreams	1:12

2.	Kodachrome Dusk	1:44

3.	Drift Log 1977	1:23

4.	Twilight Calibration	1:10

5.	Calibrated	2:00

6.	Beyond Calibration	1:50

7.	Echoes on Film	9:34

8.	Polaroid Sky Pt. 1	1:39

9.	Polaroid Sky Pt. 2	4:55

10.	Midnight Aperture	3:06

11.	Memorytone	3:09

12.	Polaroid Sky (Reprise)	6:56

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Credits

released May 16, 2025

Composed, mixed and mastered by Caught In Joy.
Karol Pokojowczyk uses Bitwig, Moog One, Moog Matriarch, Moog Micromoog, Prophet-10, 3x Moog Mavis, TipTop Buchla modules, Make Noise Strega, Strymon Magneto, Arturia V-Collection and an army of guitar pedals. Performed and recorded live on tape with TEAC 80-8.

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