The story of the Polish band POLMUZ is a good example of what happens if a long-forgotten piece of music falls into the right hands. Some shellac recordings found on a flea-market, a Soviet analog synthesizer from the 80’s added to a seemingly traditional jazz trio, and multi-generational yet…
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…