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Ajotoro - Dikanda
- 17.99
Traditional songs, scored in an arrangement not bound by any style, but based on ideas selected from many different styles. This group from Poland has a passion for traditional music but they create their own style and original sound. Their acoustic songs have been inspired by Oriental culture, Balkan folklore - Macedonian and Romanian.
Hopsasa - Warsaw Village Band
- 17.99
Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa (The band from the little village of Warsaw) have brought new attitude to Polish folk music over the last decade. This is the reissue of their first recording (1997), an all-traditional set of Polish folk tunes done with their trademark energy and innovation.
Spiewam zycie – I sing life - Edyta Geppert and Kroke
- 17.99
The well-known Polish klezmer innovators join with one of Poland's finest singers of folk and chanson for a special release of music that avoids being penned in by categories like world music, folk or chanson. The distinctive instrumental style of Kroke, based on their Jewish and East European roots, joins perfectly the expressive voice of Edyta and the ambitious lyrics of the Polish songs.
ten pieces to save the world - Kroke
- 17.99
The Polish trio of Tomasz Kukurba (viola; violin; voice; wind instruments; whistling; piano; percussion; mouth percussion), Jerzy Bawol (accordion), Tomasz Lato (double bass) present music on this 2003 recording that may not save the world, but will certainly make it a more interesting place to visit!
Old World Tangos Vol. 3: Polskie Tango 1929-39 - various
- 17.99
22 tracks of classic tangos from pre-war Poland.
Quartet - Live - Kroke
- 17.99
The two Kroke concerts at Radio Kraków Studio on October 9th and 10th, 2003 were something special. They were concerts of a group that after years of intensive touring all over Europe felt obliged to thank their friends in their home town for their long-time support. And there were so many friends to thank that it turned out to be two concerts.
Motion Rootz Experimental 2006 - Village Kollective
- 17.99
Three musicians from the Warsaw Village Band and a number of fellow Polish musicians create a brash fusion of electronic sounds with live instruments and singing. Traditional Polish and European roots together with the computer score constitute an integrated circuit, creating a new sound space in which expression of the words of the 'folk' can take full form. Musicians use traditional singing techniques: throat singing from Tuva and yoik of the Sami people. Original melodies also serve as an inspiration for individual creativivity and instrumental improvisation. Electronic music is a merger of electro, dub and drum'n'bass. It's thoroughly modern and not for the tradition-bound, but if you have an open ear, you might want to listen.
Muzyka na trabke gitare i flet - Kwartet Jorgi
- 15.99
Music for trumpet, guitar and flute, by one of Poland's most repsected modern music ensembles.
Seventh Trip - Kroke
- 17.99
Kroke didn't get lost in the dark grounds of a midlife crisis, and this seventh album is more than an itch of desire. Their music has developed from what is regarded as traditional klezmer but their music is definately forward-looking, perhaps even a little avant garde.
The Sounds of the Vanishing World - Kroke
- 18.99
In a world of unlimited communication and millennium hysteria, Kroke want us to think about things that are really important in life: Earth, Water, Fire and Love (all titles on this recording). It is also about the important events of the last decades. Basing their work on the Eastern European and Balkans tradition of Klezmer music, they also include jazz, improvisation, pop, avant-garde music and much more. These three musicians, well known in Klezmer circles, are always exciting and full of surprises, breaking new ground with their music at each turn. This 2000 release, like their others, was produced in Krakow, itself a symbol of 'the disappearing world.'
la polonaise - Cie Montanaro
- 28.99
The artists say: 'The songs here describe the landscapes of Poland, the forests and the lakes, the town of Katowice, what one sees from the window on a train, the rumours of the streets, the heat in the homes these songs also describe inner landscapes, feelings, surges, restraints, feeding a shared but impossible love la polonaise unveils a rare aspect of Miquéu Montanaro's art, writer, composer and singer, for a sensitive and fine work, wonderfully served by Sylvie Berger and the production work of alchemist Gabriel Yacoub.' Other muscians include Yannick Hardouin (piano, bass), François Heim (diatonic accordion), Daniel Malavergne (tuba), Miquču Montanaro (vocals, whistles, chromatic accordion) and Frédéric Paris (clarinet).
Tešínské Niebo / Cieszynskie Nebe - Nohavica, Kocko, Putzlacher, Lipus
- 13.99
A Czech ensemble with singer Jaromír Nohavica, poet Renata Putzlacher, musician Tomáš Ko and #269;ko and director Radovan Lipus – artists who have a close relationship to Tešínské Slezsko region of the Czech Republic - stage a performance with actors of the Czech and Polish Tešínský Theatre based on the songs of Jaromír Nohavica. Accompanied by a small theater orchestra (piano, accordion, guitar, reeds and strings)
The Migration Festival (CD/DVD set) - Various
- 22.99
Live recordings on music CD and NTSC-DVD video set (two separate discs) documents 2002 Migration Festival in Taiwan. Performers include Alom (Czech), Labour Exhange Band (Taiwan), Cracow Klezmer (Poland), Betel Nut Brothers (Taiwan) and Urna (Mongolia).
Positivity - Orkestina
- 17.99
This is the 4th release by these musicians from Bulgaria, Spain, Ireland and the UK. More sacred and profane music from the Gypsy and Jewish communities of Romania, Bulgaria and Poland is played by a raucous band of accordions, violins and bass, Bulgarian gadulkas, clarinets and percussion.
Play-Station - Motion Trio
- 17.99
The Polish 'infernal trio' returns with their second recording, an adventurous exploration of the analog accordion in the digital age. The musicianship is peerless, their ideas are on the edge, and the execution is remarkable.
Uprooting - Warsaw Village Band
- 17.99
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.
Pictures from the Street - Motion Trio
- 17.99
The record label says: Innovative Polish accordion trio founded in 1996, has worked hard to change the image of their instrument. Their sound collages range somewhere between minimalism, jazz and rock. They create soundscapes that totally redefine the musical and expressive range of the accordion and bring its sound firmly into a modern context. Everything is strictly acoustic - neither samplers nor additional effects are used. In 2000, Motion Trio won first prize at the fourth annual Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Krakow
People's Spring - Warsaw Village Band
- 16.99
2004 US release. The Warsaw Village Band play Polish folk music in an agressive new light: traditional singing upon scream, strings bugle-calls, drums' cannonades, trance and improvisations, roots vibration as well as youthful joy and passion are fused into a vibrant new work in 13 tracks and two remixes
Muzuka Naskuchana - Berklejdy
- 16.99
poland, polish, folk, Kraina Bojnow, accordion, melodeon
Teheran - Jahiar Group
- 16.99
This is a truly unique recording by a group of Polish, Tartar and Persian musicians and singers. Instruments include cimbalom, santur, various percussion instruments from all over the world, guitar, lutes, accordion and some great vocal work.
Fire in the Mountain: Polish Fiddles Vol. 1 - The Karol Stoch Band
- 16.99
The exceptional Tatra Mountain fiddler's recordings in his adopted country would preserve traditional highlander music for generations to come. His performances have since been cherished, studied and emulated and the extended family he left behind following his death in 1962 is still playing many of the same tunes he recorded 70 years ago.
Fire in the Mountain: Polish Fiddles Vol. 2 - various Polish artists
- 16.99
The Great Highland Bands features recordings by Stoch, Krzysiak, Jarosz and others in a collection of recordings that feature the great fiddlers of the era.
Polish Folk Songs and Dances - various
- special order
Recordings from the Musee d'ethnographie in Geneva's 'Archives internationales de musiques populaire' See the complete series.
Grekow.Mlejnek.Mlejnek - Sarakina
- no longer available
This young, Polish-based ensemble plays Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balkan music with a charged energy, a flair for jazz and folk alike, and the curiosity of non-natives discovering a secret code.
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