A Polish folk musician and three French jazzists have created something which is difficult to put into words. The raw-sounding improvisational music, fueled by Polish folk music digs deep, builds a solid foundation, then takes it to pieces and puts it all back together again and again. It is hardly…
Három nő, három eltérő karakter, három egyedi hang, amely a tökéletes harmóniát keresi. Harmóniát egymással, a természettel, az anyafölddel, harmóniát hagyományaikban, női mivoltukban és szerepeikben.A Kasia Kapela, Basia Songin és Zosia Zembrzuska alkotta lengyel Sutari triónak River Sisters címmel…
Three women, three different characters, three special voices - looking for perfect harmony. Harmony with nature, Mother Earth, harmony in their traditions, womanhood and female roles. The Polish trio Sutari, formed by Kasia Kapela, Basia Songin and Zosia Zembrzuska, is going to release their third…
We picture Katowice as an industrial city, although since 2015 it proudly bears the title UNESCO “Creative City of Music”, in 2017 it hosted WOMEX and is renowned for its large-scale music festivals as well. Over the last years the capital city of Upper Silesia has become one of the largest cultural…
The name of the Polish festival ‘Nowa Tradycja’ probably sounds like an oxymoron, but it is more like an open question, that by awaiting responses year by year, thus outlining a new genre of music: ‘new traditional’. The festival launched by the Polish Radio now has gained more than twenty years of…
Maciej Szajkowski (Warsaw Village Band) says: ‘Just when you think you’ve seen everything in folk music, you come across a band like Odpoczno.’But could it be quite the opposite? When you know absolutely nothing about Polish folk music, you come across a band like Odpoczno. And the show begins…I had…