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Best of the Batch: Warszawa (Warsaw) Village Band
People's Spring
 Artist: Warsaw Village Band
Title: People's Spring
Genre: World Music
Format: CD
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Website: Warsaw Village Band
Band Members: Sylwia Swiatkowska - violin, old polish fiddle, vocals; Magdalena Sobczak -dulcimer, vocals; Maja Kleszcz - vocals, cello; Wojtek Krzak - violin, hurdy gurdy, jews harp; Maciej Szajkowski -frame drum; Piotr Glinski -baraban drum.
Performed under the intense musical barrage of barbarian drumfire, and filled with the ancient (and unexpected) vocal rights of 'white voice' communication (feminist shepherd calls), the Warsaw Village Band is a six-member band featuring the historical reconstruction effort of Trance Therapy Polish Music Ethnography, creating into modern CD art the artful beauty of musical primitivism.
Instinctive music, their CD, People’s Spring opens with "To You Kasiunia," a wedding song that begins with the hammered dexterity of dulcimer (guest performer Marta Stanislawska), and then cumulates musically into a crescendo of trumpet (Piotr Korzen Korzeniowski), archaic rhythms, and the white voice fever of dance. A listening, as well as moving, experience.
The third-track, "At My Mother's," is the slow step of ancient music infusion. It is a well arranged story of sultry folklore (when a girl becomes a woman), which is melodically carried once again by the excellent push of trumpeter Piotr Korzen Korzeniowski.
"Who Is Getting Married" (the seventh-track) is the historic emancipation of a young Polish girl who refuses to marry. The track is driven by the power of voice-noise (feminism) that is sung within the unstructured (but rhythmic parameters), of well-played drums.
Embellished by such instruments as the Polish fiddle (suka), hurdy-gurdy, jew's-harp, and the dhol (drum), People’s Spring is a fifteen-track 'Spring Fever' Musical Festival of traditional and surprisingly beautiful Polish Songs!
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