Volosi

"...a great Polish-meets-Georgian project brought to us by the Polish Cultural Institute in London. It sounded great on paper and was a revelation on stage. The Polish ingredient was Vołosi, a string quintet so tight that it was like one instrument played by five people, and the Georgian ingredient was members of 33a, led by the charismatic Niaz Diasamidze who growled his lyrics in Georgian, Russian and French. Both bands were in the UK for the first time. Lyrical, exciting and adventurous music..." - Songlines

"Their music is cohesive, very energetic and, as a result, hypnotizing. Folk motifs are sublimated into sophisticated constructions and the scenic expression of the musicians, who remain in special state of mutual tension, accounts for the intensity of this musical entity. Freeing this kind of energy is usually the domain of Balkan musicians and yet VOLOSI prove that similar energies can also be released north of the Danube." - biweekly

"...Joining forces, the quintet evoke not only Beskidian village music but a Central European velvety darkness drawing parallels with fellow-Poles Kroke from another southern city, Kraków, in reflecting the continuum of musics and memories along the sweep of Carpathians eastward to Romania, and their awareness of a wider musical world.
It’s sparkling, full-blooded and glorious-toned, a heart-lifting surge of brilliantly-played, slithering, thrilling, scampering, surging, sobbing fiddles and chugging bowed bass. A wild polka, a poised and lyrical melody in the hesitating Rain Comes From Moravia, an embrace of the wayward sounds of the highlanders’ bagpipe in Gajdy, or a burst of passionate, fluttering tango.
A splendid CD, in a very nice hardback book-style package, from a young, strangely-named label that’s proving to be one to check for the new Polish roots-related music."
Andrew Cronshaw, fRoots Magazine - fRoots Magazine

Komorowska speaks in a soft and measured tone. The cadence of her articulate speech is only broken when talking about the performance of the Polish folk band Volosi. “They are so energetic and temperamental! Well, those are adjectives that are often applied to the Georgian character, aren’t they?” I ask. “Oh yes! I think the Georgian public will like them because this is exactly how I would describe them. Music is a bridge between Poland and Georgia”, said Komorowska. - Georgia Today