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Vlatko Stefanovski, Macedonian guitarist, is a true giant of the Balkan music world. Throughout his 50-years long career, he has played in many different formations and bands, as well as in many different styles and genres. But one thing he never leaves behind: the folk music and traditional…

Three recently released albums, having most in common the passion and love for music, which is here expressed through personal and distinctive sounds. Derya Türkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos – SoundplacesThanos Stavridis - Spicy MargaritaSofia Labropoulou -…

Childrens drawing of carnival costumes from in a Polish village (by an unknown artist from Przystałowice) Theater art is a very important element of the Polish culture, and that is why it has an important role on the national consciousness as well. The organizers of theaters and playwriters had…

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…

In 2008 I visited another summer camp organized by the Dom Tańca (’Dance House’) Foundation of Poland. This camp took place in a small town called Szczebrzeszyn in the Biłgoraj District of the Lublin Voivodeship, which is the part of the historical macroregion of the so-called Little Poland…

The first time I was the guest of the summer camp organized by the Dom Tańca (’Dance House’) Foundation of Poland in 2006 in the village of Gałki Rusinowskie. This village is in the Mazovian Voivodship in the ethnographical microregion of Radom (’Radomszczyzna’). This region had such an important…

The band Trio Tekke is probably not well-known yet among the listeners of Hungary, but I believe it is the most suitable time to learn what is behind the name: this Cypriot-British ensemble owns an innovative, unique multi-layered world of music, which may arouse our interest even at first hearing,…

The Hungarian dance house movement inspired many initiatives in the world to keep folkloristic traditions alive also beyond the stages and scenes. One of them was a similar movement in Poland in the early 1990s. However this Polish movement also has its predecessors in its own country.   Voice for…

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…

Barbara Rose Lange - Photo: Recorder blog (recorder.blog.hu) Is there anybody in Hungary who can not say anything about the most divisive music genre that is called mulatós? Maybe except of the newest generation of the consumer society which has its own choices of musical styles and events, we all…

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 string quintet well-known as VOŁOSI was initiated by an encounter of three traditional and two classical musicians. Their story leads back to the Polish part of the Carpathians, but their virtuous music of joy which travelled the world is also well-known by the Hungarian audience. They have…

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…