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  • SYLWIA SWIATKOWSKA violin, fiddle, vocals
  • MAGDALENA SOBCZAK dulcimer, Vocals
  • MAJA KLESZCZ bass, first Vocal
  • WOJCIECH KRZAK violin, hurdy gurdy
  • PIOTR GLINSKI baraban drum
  • MACIEJ SZAJKOWSKI frame drums
  • DJ FEEL X guest

Il giovanissimo gruppo polacco Warsaw Village Band, reduce dalla premiazione della BBC World Music Award 2004, è una delle ultimissime rivelazioni nel mondo della world music.

Il loro ultimo CD People's Spring esprime tutti gli elementi di questa musica delle radici suonata con passione ed entusiasmo giovanile, vicina alla trance, in una riuscita miscela che combina rispetto della tradizione e nuove idee interpretative.

Anche il loro modo di cantare è tradizionale ed è interamente affidato alle componenti femminili del gruppo.

L’uso fedele degli antichi strumenti della tradizione, così come la riscoperta degli elementi dimenticati della trance nella musica tradizionale polacca, fanno della Warsaw Village Band una delle band più acclamate in questo momento in tutta Europa.

Da molti anni in tour con il full booking.

  • Uprooting - 2004
  • People's Spring - 2003
  • Hop Sa Sa - 1998

  • "...un quintetto polacco assolutamente effervescente, inserito dalla BBC nella compilation dedicata alla migliori produzioni di world music del 2003, che sta facendo parlare di sé per la straordinaria fantasia con cui riesce fondere la tradizione folk e gli elementi eterogenei della musica rock e pop." (La Stampa, Italia, Luglio 2004)
  • "One of the new promising New Folk Bands from Eastern Europe. WVB perform folk music combined with medieval music and a pinch of 'Apocalyptica'." (Nordwestzeitung, Germany, July 2003)
  • "WARSAW VILLAGE BAND blows a wind of change into the Polish folk scene For Western Europeans, Poland remains an unknown neighbour, even if the country already has one foot in the door of the European Union. And despite the fact that the Polish folk scene is presently bursting with vitality. The Warsaw Village Band is one of the most outstanding groups to come out of Poland in the past few years. Folk music is undergoing a kind of renaissance in Poland, and has become extremely fashionable. Old persons who still play the traditional Polish instruments were a major inspiration for the musicians of the WARSAW VILLAGE BAND. It was with the help of those people that most of the band members learned to play the old instruments auto-didactically. 'We travelled from village to village, seeking out the old people; we listened to their music and their stories. What surprised us most was that no one else in the villages is interested in this music anymore. These are old people, and when they die, the music will die with them.' It is entirely thanks to these old people that the band musicians know how to play the instruments in the traditional way. The most interesting instrument in the collection of the WARSAW VILLAGE BAND is certain to be the Suka, played by Sylwia: an old Polish form of the violin, originating in the sixteenth century, with strings that are played with the fingernails. The other two women in the band play the zither and the cello, two of the men play drums, and one of them the violin and hurdy-gurdy. The women sing with powerful voices, song that is sometimes rather shrill but always forceful and impressive. 'The vocal style is based on the so-called white voice, a special traditional technique originating with the shepherds, who always shouted at the top of their voices. This is combined with the traditional techniques for playing the old Polish instruments.'" (Folk World)
  • "The WARSAW VILLAGE BAND adds medieval sounds and a pinch of Apocalyptica to folklore!Violins sing, a cello is played by brute force, drums resound into the farthest corners." (Nordwest-Zeitung Oldenburg/Germany, July 2003)
  • "The success of the WARSAW VILLAGE BAND stems from its musicians' great love for their national musical heritage and their will to preserve the old musical traditions. For these musicians, however, preservation does not mean restoration but – as we have experienced with 'The Pogues' or 'Les Negresses Vertes', for example – reanimation, i. e. the transportation of the old songs’ spirit into the here and now. Polka gets a shot of Techno, and despite the acoustic instrumentalisation, the band conjures up sounds that have electronic impact." (Rheinische Post/Germany, Jan. 2004)
  • "If you are holding Maximum Ink in your hands your hands, chances are (by geography) that you have some Polish blood in you. Being a 2nd generation, full-blooded Pole, I was brainwashed into believing that Polish music was Polka. Not that I don’t like good Polka now and then, but the Warsaw Village Band have enlightened me about Polish Folk music. These musicians scoured the corners of Poland, talking to elderly people and having them teach them the old songs, which are more aligned with Celtic music. Combining the traditional with modern production and contemporary lyrics makes their CD, “People’s Spring,” an incredible audio experience." (Maximum Ink)