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Post by pieter on Feb 3, 2007 19:03:06 GMT -7
At abstract electronic music like this french number I sometimes have distance melancholic or nostalig flashbacks to Poznan (1988), Krakow (2004) and Warsaw (2006).
It's like the abstract city jungle sounscape or atmosphere fits more to large Polish cities than to the more narrow, pitoresque Dutch cities.
I like the grandeur, Classicism, Renaissance, baroc and jugendstil of the Polish cities, with their old flavor, and walls that keep memories and the voices of the past.
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Post by bujno on Feb 6, 2007 7:19:47 GMT -7
Aaaah, Jan Kelus! Thanks for reminding! Very simple, amateur guitar playing and absolutely great lyrics, poetry in fact. I used to his songs (and have his work on CD's) very much when I was younger. With age and with Poland independance his songs lost part of its charm. Which is not the case with Jacek Kaczmarski, still extremely popular and one of my favourite artists ever. Kaczmarski's music is very deep, he played virtuoso guitar (well, almost) and most of all his poetry has eternal meanings that never get out of date.
You're right about mixed origins of modern folk music in Poland. It is sometimes diffiult to say which is 'Polish' music and which is for instance 'Ukrainian' or 'Slovak'. That is near the borders. Gypsy music is also used occasionally by artist using folk in their work. And we have Edyta Górniak an outstanding singer you have already presented here who is half-Gypsy. So let us listen today to one of my favourite Polish singers, here singing Gypsy song at the Gypsy Music Festival in Ciechocinek, Poland. Her name is Justyna Steczkowska, you probably may remember her from the clip with Polish jazmann, a trumpet player - Tomasz Stañko
Here's Steczkowska and Stañko once again just to remind:
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Post by pieter on Feb 6, 2007 17:21:08 GMT -7
Wojtek,
Thank you for this relaxed, oriental, melody music from Central-Europe. Justyna Steczkowska is a very beautiful and sweet Gypsy jazz singer.
In just enjoyed it and liked listening to and watching both clips. (the first I had seen before, but that does not matter, because your introduction made the differance. It was another kind of listening).
Here some music I grew up with, because my fahter was fond of Hungarian and Rumanian Gypsy music;
(Polish gypsy singer)
And last but not least Gypsies from Slovakia:
Pieter
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Post by rdywenur on Feb 7, 2007 3:55:20 GMT -7
I have a cd by the Gipsy Kings. Does anyone know if they are real gypsys. I always assumed so.
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Post by pieter on Feb 7, 2007 12:43:15 GMT -7
Gipsy Kings
The Gipsy Kings are a group from Arles and Montpellier in France. Their parents fled from Spain during the Spanish Civil War. They are Calé (Gypsy) musicians, best known for bringing Rumba Catalana, a pop-oriented version of traditional flamenco music to mainstream audiences, a kind of Rumba Flamenca. They became popular with their album, self titled Gipsy Kings, which included the songs Djobi Djoba, Bamboleo and Un Amor. The song Volare on their second album Mosaique is a rumba version of Domenico Modugno's Italian hit Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu. The Gipsy Kings were enormously popular in France despite harsh criticism from flamenco purists. Gipsy Kings was successful throughout Europe, especially France and the UK. In 1989, Gipsy Kings was released in the United States and it spent 40 weeks on the charts, one of very few Spanish language albums to do so. Their cover version of Hotel California is an excellent example of fast classical guitar leads and flamenco strumming (this version was featured in the Coen Brothers' movie The Big Lebowski). In 1991 the Gipsy Kings provided flamenco guitar on Bananarama's version of Long Train Running, using the pseudonym Alma de Noche ("Soul of the Night"). The Gipsy Kings are members of two related families: the Reyes and the Baliardos (Reyes means Kings in Spanish). They are cousins of the flamenco great Manitas de Plata. Lead vocalist Nicolas Reyes is the son of flamenco great Jose Reyes. The Gipsy Kings are: Nicolas Reyes: lead vocals Pablo Reyes: backup vocals, guitar Canut Reyes: backup vocals, guitar Patchai Reyes: backup vocals, guitar Andre Reyes: guitar/vocals Diego Baliardo: guitar Paco Baliardo: guitar Tonino Baliardo: lead guitar Chico Bouchikhi was also a member of the Gipsy Kings, but quit after the album Mosaique.
Danceability
Many songs of Gipsy Kings fit social dances, such as Samba, Salsa and Rumba.
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Post by pieter on Feb 7, 2007 13:14:54 GMT -7
Links to Sapnish Gypsy music: [youtube]
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Post by bujno on Feb 8, 2007 1:44:25 GMT -7
Thanks for the encyclopaedic data. Just to be precise let me say that Justyna Steczkowska is not Gypsy. It is Edyta Górniak who is half-Gypsy. And very Polish at the same time Chris, I too always assumed that the Gypsy Kings were all Gypsy, now we know for sure.
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Post by Pawian on Feb 11, 2007 7:50:27 GMT -7
Pawian, Zooba or Wojtek, do you know the Polish Punk band Nowa Huta, I heard them once on the sqauter radio in Arnhem, and it was the only and last Polish Punk I ever heard. Pieter I don`t know this band. There have been many punk groups in Poland, only a few became popular. I listened to this music a little 20 years ago being in a high school. But I always prefered rock and metal.
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Post by bujno on Feb 15, 2007 13:28:38 GMT -7
Psio Crew again! Some days ago I've at last purchased the groups CD and everybody's laughing that I got obssesed with this music. Here's some more for all of you too 'Z Bogiem dla Boga przez Boga, taka moja droga' with this new sound is deeply moving and so joyfull ('With God, for God, through God, that is may road")
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Post by rdywenur on Feb 15, 2007 15:59:52 GMT -7
Buj...sounds like Polish rap with a reggae beat. Interesting.
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Post by hollister on Feb 16, 2007 8:05:31 GMT -7
Polish hardrock/heavy metal for Pawian! I'm not Pawian - but I enjoyed the links nonetheless! Thanks Have you heard anything by My Chemical Romance? I like "Black Parade." Have to see if I can find a link. Right now there is so much going on with Youtube and vids being taken down not sure if I can find anything. A good project for the day I suppose.
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Post by pieter on Feb 25, 2007 13:18:25 GMT -7
Some Fun Polish-Pop rock I found this evening on Youtube,
TS2 video - Dezyda
Republika - Moja krew
Republika - Republika marzen (Polish New Wave band)
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Post by bujno on Feb 26, 2007 3:49:46 GMT -7
I like "Republika' really very much, and 'Moja krew' song is deeply moving. I very much regret that the band's leader - Grzegorz Ciechowski passed away at such a young age. www.ciechowski.art.pl/
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Post by pieter on Feb 27, 2007 19:04:33 GMT -7
More Polish Punk-rock: BRYGADA KRYZYS - Jarocin '91 chyli?ska - goraca prosba Dzieci kapitana Klossa - Pie?? o Hansie Klossie (LIVE) Defekt Muzgó - My Polacy (LIVE Jarocin '92) Dezerter - Ukryta Kamera Dr Hackenbush - Kosa Haos - Miopia in Europa Kosmetyki Mrs. Pinki - Ci?gle w ruchu Kracer w aurorze KSU "Za mg??" Maanam - To mi sie sni Moskwa - Nigdy! (FMR Jarocin'86) Siekiera "Misiowie Puszy?ci" SS-20 Live at Sudsy Malones Polish sca: Pudelsi - Konduktorka PKP Polish electro: Eccicon St. Valentine's Day Festival Invitation KULT - Polska Melodic polish rock: Polish band Mordy concert I 31.01.2007 (reminds me of one of my favorite bands Joy Division or it's follow up New Order) ?zy - Po prostu ot tak Russian: DDT - Dozhd' ? ?
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Post by bujno on Feb 28, 2007 7:06:19 GMT -7
Pieter, I like Agnieszka Chylinska very much. She doesn't record new songs right now, since she is taking care of her newborn child. She's one of the most defiant rock singers in Poland. So is 'Kult' leader - Kazik Staszewski, another very oustanding artist. The song "Polska" you have provided the link for is certainly among his best ones. I am sure you can understand a lot of it even without understanding the lyrics. Kazik Staszewski father was also an artist and defiant in communist times, when more courage was needed to be one. Pudelsi, Siekiera, KSU, Defekt Mózgu are all classiques of their genres, but it seems that the 'new generations' did not accept them as they did Kazik and Agnieszka Chyliñska. Thanks for posting and bringing some good memories back on my mind
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