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Conscious Choice, Concert Review >>
Warsaw Village Band
Infinity
(Barbes)
A number of years ago I walked into the now-defunct world music club, Satalla, and witnessed a spectacle I’d never expected: six twenty-somethings dressed in kortas and Converse, jeans and sunglasses, ripping through Polish village music like their lives depended on it. The dreadlocked violinist was in a trance, while the small gypsy-esque singer looked barely old enough to be carrying the mournful, large sounds arising from her lungs. (Indeed, the style — bialy glos — is used by shepherds to communicate over long distances.) These classically-trained youngsters were looking to redefine their national music; dub bass lines and turntable scratches embrace remixes and inform their sound as much as the dulcimer and hurdy-gurdy. As the violinist, Wojtek Krzak, told me that evening, violins bore him; he needs to feel as though he’s doing something new. On their third album, that newness remains unquestioned. Finding a new home on the Brooklyn-based Barbes Records, Maja Kleszcz’s voice continues to break hearts, as this sextet continues to break borders.
— DB 03/30/09 >> go there
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