Warsaw Village Band

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As may be obvious, the band hail from Warsaw and play traditional Polish folk music along with modern elements. The former, they sought from older Polish musicians and so act as transporters of the rich cultural seam of music particularly from eastern Poland.

Band member Wojciech Krzak has stated that after the fall of the failed communist dictat and then the potential destruction of Polish cultural identity by multi nationals and the new ‘free economy’ the group was conceived as a response to this trend that would explore Poland’s musical traditions and make them relevant to its new capitalist system.

The band’s very name appears to evoke what troubles Krzak about Poland’s new capitalism: many large Polish cities do not have suburbs in the traditional sense, leading to unsettling transitions directly from city to field. To this end, in their 2004 album Wykorzenienie (Uprooting), the band traveled throughout Poland to find and record older musicians who still played almost-forgotten styles of music, thereafter incorporating those melodies into new songs and expounding upon them.

www.warsawvillageband.net/