ozzy
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Post by ozzy on Mar 30, 2008 18:46:53 GMT 1
Well, what Polish bands do you like ?
As I love blues, I strongly recommend the following bands: Breakout, Dżem (Jam:P) and Stare Dobre Małżeństwo (An old, good couple:P).
What else ? Unfortunately I don't think we have many good bands- especially nowadays.
If anybody is interested in rock, they should listen to SBB.
What about you mates ?
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 30, 2008 19:21:51 GMT 1
Well, what Polish bands do you like ? As I love blues, I strongly recommend the following bands: Breakout, Dżem (Jam:P) and Stare Dobre Małżeństwo (An old, good couple:P). What else ? Unfortunately I don't think we have many good bands- especially nowadays. If anybody is interested in rock, they should listen to SBB. What about you mates ? Can you give us samples of the best songs by those groups? Personally, I don`t listen to blues, it is too blue to me hahahaha, although Stare DM has many nice songs. SBB was a popular group, but active in 70s. Do you mean this period or some newer achievements?
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Post by ozzy on Mar 30, 2008 20:31:56 GMT 1
Yes, I meant the 70's. Too blue for you ? What do YOU mean ? Too sad, melancholy ? As for songs: Breakout: Na drugim brzegu tęczy, Czułość niosę tobie, spiekota, modlitwa, tobie ta piesn, co sie stalo kwiatom, kiedy bylem malym chlopcem (the most known song), HOŁD, ten o tobie film, Dzem: Sen o Wiktorii, Whisky, Wehikuł CZasu, czerwony jak cegła, detox, autsajder Etc. You said you don't like the blues. What kind of music do you like then ?
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 30, 2008 21:00:08 GMT 1
Yes, I meant the 70's. Too blue for you ? What do YOU mean ? Too sad, melancholy ? Exactly. I have always needed more aggressive rhythms. hahahahaha I know a few from the list. A person who listens to Polish stations must know them. Do you think you can find some on youtube for us? I like many kinds of music. My youth fascination which is still present in my life today is metal. Mostly foreign groups, such as Iron Maiden, Accept, Helloween, Judas Priest, Metallica, etc. Also old Polish groups like TSA. But I never listen to black metal groups. TSA While getting older, I took to other kinds too. I like Enya and similar Irish/Celtic folk stuff. I like artistic singing, e.g. by Piwnica pod Baranami, including the greatest Ewa Demarczyk. I keep her songs at the top of my youtube charts. I like American rock of the 60s and disco music of 70s (ABBA) or 80s (Dead or Alive). Hard to say. I like everything which has a catching melody, no matter, slow or fast. I was always surprised when people got crazy about U2 which sounds so boring to me. Recently I am in love with Jozin z Bazin hahahahaha. Both original and cover.
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Post by valpomike on Mar 30, 2008 21:36:57 GMT 1
Hi,
I love Jazz music, and would love to find some great Polish groups that I can buy C.D.'s of. Can anyone help with this?
Michael Dabrowski
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ozzy
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Post by ozzy on Mar 30, 2008 21:48:19 GMT 1
Valpomike: so do I !
My favourite musician is Miles Davis- he is a genius!
As far as Polish bands are concerned, probably the best Jazz musician is Tomasz Stańko. My father is a jazz lover too and he says he'd recommend: Zbigniew Namysłowski, Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski, Leszek Możdżer (he is very popular nowadays).
Here you have the best jazz musicians (the list written by Polish Jazz magzinne- JAZZ FORUM):
Composer:
Zbigniew Namysłowski, Tomasz Stańko, Leszek Możdżer, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Wojciech Karolak, Tymon Tymański, Jarosław Śmietana
Vocal (man):
Marek Bałata, Stanisław Soyka, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Jorgos Skolias, Janusz Szrom, Tymon Tymański
Vocal (woman)
Ewa Bem,Anna Maria Jopek, Urszula Dudziak, Grażyna Auguścik, Anna Serafińska, Lora Szafran, Dorota Miśkiewicz
Trumpet:
Tomasz Stańko, Piotr Wojtasik, Robert Majewski, Antoni Gralak, Łukasz Golec, Adam Kawończyk, Henryk Majewski
Saxophones:
Maciej Sikała, Tomasz Szukalski, Adam Pierończyk, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Piotr Baron, Janusz Muniak, Andrzej Olejniczak, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
Piano:
Leszek Możdżer, Andrzej Jagodziński, Krzysztof Herdzin, Adam Makowicz, Marcin Wasilewski, Wojciech Niedziela, Włodzimierz Pawlik
Guitar:
Jarosław Śmietana, RyszardTymon Tymański, Marek Napiórkowski, Ryszard Styła
Go 'n listen to Breakout:
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Post by valpomike on Mar 31, 2008 16:01:08 GMT 1
Great stuff, but most of the you tube was blues type, and vocal. I don't care for vocal. Can you send me a copy of the full report on Jazz from Poland?
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 1, 2008 21:15:23 GMT 1
Great stuff, but most of the you tube was blues type, and vocal. I don't care for vocal. ? Mike, don`t you want to pick up some Polish?
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Post by valpomike on Apr 2, 2008 1:29:51 GMT 1
But to hear it, and not know what they are saying is not good.
Do you know Polish Jazz?
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 2, 2008 18:03:38 GMT 1
But to hear it, and not know what they are saying is not good. Do you know Polish Jazz? Hmmm...... if I know it..... Yes, I know a few names. But the problem with jazz is the total lack of any hints in this music which might point to a particular musician. Simply speaking, it sounds all the same. Unlike other kinds of music pop, rock, etc, in which after hearing a tune you instantly recognize the performer. I don`t listen to jazz because in too big doses it unnerves me. But it is nice music to listen to when you drink beer with your former students in a basement pub in the Old Town. We ordered more pints and waited for the free jazz concert. Jazz classic standards. I don`t like such music too much. If I had to listen to it at home, I would feel tortured, but the atmosphere in the basement was so special that 2 hours spent there didn`t really matter. Half the guests there were foreigners. They visibly liked the concert.
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Post by tufta on Jul 25, 2008 18:14:02 GMT 1
Poetical music. or 'sung poetry' as we call it in Polish Halina Poświatowska untitled poem sung by Janusz Radek (four-octaves voice) pl.youtube.com/watch?v=rSqBozgLSrwen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halina_Po%C5%9Bwiatowska untitled ("when I die my darling") ------------------------------------------------------------- when I die my darling when I part with the sun to become an oblong object rather sad will you then draw me closer embrace me and fix what savage fate broke I often think of you I often write to you silly letters -- love within them and smiles then I hide them in the stove let the flame jump word to word before it calmly goes to sleep in the ashes looking in the flame my darling I am thinking -- what will happen to my heart hungry for love so please do not allow after all for me to die in a world which is dim and which is cold Polish text Copyright 1989 Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, Poland: ***("kiedy umre kochanie") ------------------------------------------------------------- kiedy umrę kochanie gdy się ze słońcem rozstanę i będę długim przedmiotem raczej smutnym czy mnie wtedy przygarniesz ramionami ogarniesz i naprawisz co popsół los okrutny często myślę o tobie często piszę do ciebie głupie listy -- w nich miłość i uśmiech potem w piecu je chowam płomień skacze po słowach nim spokojnie w popiele nie uśnie patrząc w płomień kochanie myślę -- co też się stanie z moim sercem miłości głodnym a ty nie pozwól przecież żebym umarła na świecie który ciemny jest i który jest chłodny Halina Poświatowska, translation by Marek Lugowski, marek@enteract.com twice22.org/HalinaFAQ/
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Post by gigi on Jul 25, 2008 22:40:53 GMT 1
Poetical music. or 'sung poetry' as we call it in Polish Halina Poświatowska untitled poem sung by Janusz Radek (four-octaves voice) Such sad words, but beautiful music. Radek's octave change is impressive! Thanks for sharing this, Tufta!
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Post by valpomike on Jul 26, 2008 2:22:08 GMT 1
I still like Jazz by the many Polish Greats. Try it, you may like it, also.
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Post by gigi on Jul 26, 2008 16:40:28 GMT 1
I still like Jazz by the many Polish Greats. Try it, you may like it, also. Great music and video from Michal Urbaniak: Mike, have you had any luck finding Polish jazz CDs? You should be able to find them on the internet. Here is a great source: www.polishjazz.com/pjn/shop.htm I also found some online at Amazon, CD Universe, and Circuit City (though the selection is more limited). For more background information on Polish jazz, here is a link with lots of information about its history:www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/es_polski_jazz
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Post by valpomike on Jul 26, 2008 17:09:56 GMT 1
Thank you, great stuff, and great music. What do you think?
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Post by gigi on Jul 27, 2008 5:32:47 GMT 1
Thank you, great stuff, and great music. What do you think? I enjoy many types of music, including jazz. I played and studied music for many years. Hearing exceptional music/vocals often affects me deeply.
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Post by tufta on Jul 28, 2008 11:32:03 GMT 1
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Post by gigi on Jul 28, 2008 15:56:11 GMT 1
Here we go, Polish jazz fans ! and Polish folk-jazz-classical?, jazz-classical-folk?? whatever... Great! I especially like the 'whatever' one. It's a really cool mix of music and a great video. There is some great clarinet playing in there...brings back some memories (not that I was ever THAT good).
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Post by gigi on Jul 29, 2008 14:05:42 GMT 1
I still like Jazz by the many Polish Greats. The 13th Summer Jazz Festival at the Cellar under Rams (Piwnica pod Baranami) is being held in Krakow from July 6th-August 3rd, 2008. Here is a link to learn more about this festival and some of the history of Polish jazz. www.cracjazz.com/eng/hist.htm
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Post by pjotr on Aug 16, 2008 18:26:13 GMT 1
jagahost.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=arts&action=display&thread=35Since I am not very often in Poland, I do not have a view on present day Poland. As a teenager I got a Polish record of the band Turbo of a friend of my mother, who knew I liked hard rock music. I searched in Poland for records myself too in 1988 and bought a record of Papa Dance (1987; light computerised disco) and Marek & Vacek, who had a modernised version of Cassical music played with modern instruments. I remember going out with Dutch, German and Dutch-Polish and German-Polish students of the art academy of Arnhem in Kraków in april 2004, and we really enjoyed it there. They had good New Wave music of the eightees (the Cure, New Order, The Pretenders) and other dancable music, some boy's and girls were dressed in the Black new wave stile of the eightees, girls with black hair and black make up (really cool), and the were even older guys dancing on that music. They had (ironically) nostalgic pictures of cars and products of the eventees and eightees hanging on the wall, like the Polish cars of that time ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_car_factory ) and other things. There was really an eightees atmosphere which made me both nostalgic, melancholic and happy. It was the atmosphere I when I went out as a teenager and early student in Amsterdam. Turbo is a polish heavy/thrash metal band formed in 1980 by Henryk Tomczak. They gained renown after releasing their first LP entitled "Dorosle Dzieci" ("Mature Children"), which was a big innovation on the polish rock scene. Turbo is best known with 2 albums - "Kawaleria Szatana" ("Satan's Cavalry") and "Ostatni Wojownik" ("The Last Warrior). Their early works are classified as heavy metal, but later they shifted to thrash and returned to pure heavy in the end. After releasing the album "Dead End" and a live album "Alive!" the musicians decided to split up and only release "Best Of" compilations. In 2000 the band reunited, released two albums (Awatar ["Avatar"] in 2001 and Tozsamosc ["Identity"] in 2004) but after that they split up again and focused on their individual projects. www.turbo.art.pl/turbo/servlet/IndexAbout Marek & Vacek in German; ska-showbiz.de/artists/marek/marek_g.htmIn Polish: www.polishmusic.ca/skok/cds/polskie/grupy/m/marek_wa/marek_wa.htmlPapa dance: (In Polish) www.papadance.nazwa.pl/index1.phppl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_DanceI just found this about present day Polish music (after 1989). Contemporary music in Poland Poland has always been a very open country to new music genres and even before the fall of the communism music styles like rock, metal, jazz, electronic, and New Wave were well-known. Since 1989, the Polish scene has exploded with new talents and a more diverse style. Contrary to most European countries, pop music is not dominant in Poland. It is completely overshadowed by rock and, to a lesser degree, by hip hop. Alternative music styles, such as black metal, gothic rock, trip hop, EBM, and post-rock, are also popular. Poland has also two indigenous styles of popular music: sung poetry and disco polo. The latter is completely ignored by the mainstream media, while the former has its own radio stations and TV channels. Poland is a huge producer of hip hop music, which is usually most popular in large urban centres. Rock is usually more dominant in smaller cities and rural areas, but rock radio stations are by far the most listened to radio stations in Poland. Every year, a huge gathering of young Poles meet to celebrate the rock and alternative music in Jarocin or ?ary. These events often attract more than 250,000 people and are comparable to the gatherings in Woodstock and Roskilde. Poland has a very active underground Extreme Metal Music Scene. Some of the bands that have heralded and helped the cause are Vader, Behemoth, Yattering, Decapitated, Graveland, Baphomets Throne , and Dissenter. This has paved ground for a large underground movement. One of the biggest record labels of death metal in Poland is Empire Records.
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Post by valpomike on Sept 3, 2008 0:43:09 GMT 1
Any new people who also love Polish Jazz Music, as I do? Tell us of your favorites, and others, share.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 3, 2009 23:49:34 GMT 1
I still like Jazz by the many Polish Greats. Try it, you may like it, also. Woody Allen jazzes it up at Warsaw concert hall 12/29/08
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday.
The filmmaker, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New Orleans Jazz Band for a performance of traditional jazz.
"We will do our best to entertain you," Allen told the audience at Warsaw's biggest concert hall, Sala Kongresowa, at the beginning of the two-hour concert.
Allen's solo parts, as well as those of other band members, were welcomed with applause. He received a standing ovation at the end.
The 73-year-old Academy Award winner rarely performs in large venues or outside New York City, where he lives. www.se.pl/rozrywka/muzykaiklipy/woody-allen-wystapil-w-warszawie_84170.html
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Post by tomek on Jan 4, 2009 14:52:26 GMT 1
I still like Jazz by the many Polish Greats. Try it, you may like it, also. Woody Allen jazzes it up at Warsaw concert hall 12/29/08
I ffounded filmed concert at youtub. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmndTnRMrjUI not been on the concert but I naturally want. Jazz music is great. This jazz which Allen play is traditional, but I also like new jazz, you know, free jazz played by Tomasz Stañko uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKAgud_AJsFree style is chaos avantgarde, and traidtional jazz is too rythmik for me.
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Post by valpomike on Jan 4, 2009 21:51:33 GMT 1
I got for Christmas, from my cousin in Warsaw, Poland, a great C.D. set, The Best of Polish Smooth Jazz Volume 2. It has 4 C.D.s on it, and if you have not heard it yet, give it a try. Polish Jazz is as great as the American Jazz.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 4, 2009 23:48:23 GMT 1
I got for Christmas, from my cousin in Warsaw, Poland, a great C.D. set, The Best of Polish Smooth Jazz Volume 2. It has 4 C.D.s on it, and if you have not heard it yet, give it a try. Polish Jazz is as great as the American Jazz. Mike No, both suck! ;D ;D ;D ;D I went to a jazz concert in the basement club once but it was pure accident and if not for excellent beer, I wouldn`t stay there too long ...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by valpomike on Jan 5, 2009 5:59:04 GMT 1
Some day when you grow up, and get older, you will understand it is the only real music.
Mike
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Post by tufta on Jan 5, 2009 13:04:42 GMT 1
I got for Christmas, from my cousin in Warsaw, Poland, a great C.D. set, The Best of Polish Smooth Jazz Volume 2. It has 4 C.D.s on it, and if you have not heard it yet, give it a try. Polish Jazz is as great as the American Jazz. Mike I've got "The best of Smooth Jazz... ever!" vol.2, 4 C.D.'s set. Fantastic choice. It seems the whole series is great.
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Post by valpomike on Jan 5, 2009 16:51:25 GMT 1
How can I buy the rest of this set? Can you help on this?
Mike
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Post by tufta on Jan 5, 2009 20:04:07 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on May 2, 2009 20:38:56 GMT 1
Polish roots music. I have never heard it before. The band is known in Europe, probably less in Poland.
World music review: Warsaw Village Band, Infinity
Robin Denselow
The Guardian
Friday 7 November 2008
rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Four years ago, when Warsaw Village Band released Uprooting, it seemed they would be the first Polish roots musicians to make a major impact in the west. Now, following an unnecessary remix version during singer and cellist Maja Kleszcz's maternity leave, they return with a new album that confirms them as one of the Europe's most intriguing, adventurous bands. The starting point is still the vocal work of Kleszcz and the driving, spine-tingling harmonies of two other young singers, Magdalena Sobczak-Kotnarowska and Sylwia Swiatkowska, on dulcimer and violin. Three male band members add violin and hand drums. The group mix cello and violin with constantly shifting rhythms and influences that range from dance songs to pared-down acoustic funk; scratching effects match the squeaky violins. There's a sturdy, string-backed Polish blues, some African-influenced chanting, and even a drifting Polish-Indian raga featuring dulcimer and an ancient fiddle, the suka. It's a bravely confident collision of styles, and it works.
A few pieces. Not bad, quite intriguing, but listening to it for a longer time would unnerve me too much.
This song is unnerving.
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