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Nashville City Paper, CD Review >>
Uprooting (World Village) features the Warsaw Village Band doing an inspired mix of traditional Polish folk music with some improvisational and rock influences. Vocalists Maja Kleszcz and Magdalena Sobczak are alternately sentimental and aggressive, though one of the set’s best numbers is instrumental. “Polka z Sieradzkiego (Polka from Sieradz Region)” has a catchy main melody and fine dual violin/dulcimer exchanges underlined by both frame and baraban drum support. “A jak pojechal Jas na wojenko (When Johnny went to fight in the war)” has a moving lead vocal from Maja Kleszcz, but her cello lines contrasted by fiddler Sylwia Swiatkowska and xylophonist Piotr Glinski inject some vital energy into the number. The Lipsk Women’s Choir, Marina Pelka Band and duo of Janina and Kazimierz Zdrzalik add some punch and more instrumental and vocal colors to an enjoyable blend of traditional and contemporary Polish sounds.
-Ron Wynn 04/29/05 >> go there
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