Wacław Zimpel has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 30 January 2017. Wacław Zimpel's music has been featured on 25 episodes.

Wacław Zimpel is a Polish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is inspired as much by jazz as he is by electronics, minimalism and roots music from across the world.

Born and raised in Poznań, his earliest musical memories are of his father playing the piano. Taking up the violin at the age of six, Zimpel cast aside the frustrations of formal music lessons by finding salvation in jazz, the harmonica and a burning desire to improvise. He is classically educated clarinetist mostly…