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Warsaw Village Band
Uprooting (World Village)
The 2004 release by this heralded Polish acoustic-roots ensemble. It's more modern, more edgy, but still true to the original roots even as it updates them.
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Listen:
In the forest
Woman in hell
Also by the band: People's Spring
You should also hear Orkiestra p.w. sw. Mikolaja (St. Nicholas Orchestra)
“From village to metropolis, from untuned violins to scratch, from generation to generation, from uprooted musicians to the latest vibes, from soul to soul.” - Warsaw Village Band, August 2004
| "The six band members, three male, three female, provide the voices, the pair of battering drums, a touch of jew's-harp, and the fiddles, bass and Polish suca, whose strings are stopped, lyra-like, by the fingernails of its player, the main singer Katarzyna Szurman. Welcome tonal variety is injected by guest trumpeter Piotr Korzen Korzeniowski, whose ecstatic echoed solo improvisation over At My Mother's is a high point, and the first track is opened by the hammered dulcimer of another guest, Marta Stanislawska. The band have paid their dues in terms of going to the villages and meeting surviving traditional musicians there, but this is no academic copying of details. In a country that's rich with remarkable new music in all genres, it's a celebration of the essence, the spirit and texture of village music, and proof that it has the energy to skip across the generations to be embraced as an adventure by at least some of the cool youth." - Andrew Cronshaw, fRoots (review of their previous recording, People's Spring) |
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