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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
Discography
CD: Hopsasa JARO 4265-2
Peoples spring JARO 4247-2
UPROOTING JARO 4261-2
NEW Upmixing JARO 4286-2 (July 08)
Infinity JARO 4289-2 ( November 08)
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WVB 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 (WVB) 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 (WVB). 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.
Having received outstanding reviews all over Europe, the Warsaw Village Band CD "People's Spring" first CD then their release of the new product "Uprooting" recieved even better coments. It was licensed to Us, Canada, Spain, Uk, Japan, Poland .Hardly surprising: The band is being celebrated as one of the discoveries of the music scene. In early 2004, they were presented with the BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD in Edinburgh ! The year 2004 + 2005 they continued with concert tours in the U.S. and Canada and engagements in France, Algeria, Italy, Ireland, England, Benelux, Portugal and Taiwan.
Uprooting best position in the pop world was no 6 on national pop charts in Poland, their music had been used for video games as mysth, and several video game music and film music is in the pipeline. The band toured 2006 important festivals as WOMAD and others. Following a one-year maternity/paternity leave, Warsaw Village Band is returning to the world of CDs and concert stages with two new albums. The first to appear will be the remix CD »Upmixing«. In
response to countless requests from the worlds DJs, this CD was produced with the consent of the musicians. The bands only condition was that it should be a Reggae remix album on the basis of their last studio CD »Uprooting« Album No 2 is INFINITY: "Warsaw Village Band" the Polish Rolling Stones, as they are called by the international press are collecting inspirations and experiences of the past years to ask the global audience questions Who are we? Where do we come from? and, most important of all, What we are going to leave behind when we go? INFINITY is the philosophical journey around the map of the modern world, where music becomes the beginning of the way, the challenge and the question put to people of different nations, cultures and languages from New York to Kingston, Paris to Moscow, Beijing to Tokyo.
REVIEWS:
"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,
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