Loved both of your posts! You have great taste in music.And as an English woman you have that very rare quality, a deep understanding of Polish culture and history.
If you have a good look at Polish Blues you will find a wide collection of variety in Polish Blues. Some standard, some more modern. Here is a more standard Blues from,Andrzej Zaucha.
This is something a bit different from Trio.
More traditional blues from Zdrowa Woda (Healthy Water).
I'll end my posts with the excellent Polish band called Hard Times.... these guys are truly stunning.
I recently have been looking into modern music coming out of Poland, and honestly I am liking what I am hearing so far. I recently found Sobel and was curious if there are any recommendations you all may have?!
Well, Sobell is not exactly to my personal taste but for Rich (Novichock) to compare him to "Banging frying pans" is just ridiculous. Here is one of his songs, please tell me if you think he sounds like "Banging frying pans".
Another song by them from the same album.... I remember my Polish teacher told me that it's not about Africa at all, but Poland and Polish people...
My quick translation of the lyrics:
Violence is everywhere, violence is in you Violence is in me, violence has always been there Violence will always be, violence violence was in you Violence was in me, you know the law and rules You can't do anything about it I have to manage it for myself Still for many days Still for many years Everything will have a bitter taste Treachery is everywhere
original: Przemoc jest wszędzie przemoc jest w tobie Przemoc jest we mnie przemoc zawsze była Przemoc zawsze będzie przemoc była w tobie Przemoc była we mnie znasz prawa i zasady Nic na to nie poradzisz I sam z tym radę musisz sobie dać Jeszcze przez wiele dni Jeszcze przez wiele lat Wszystko będzie miało gorzki smak Zdrada jest wszędzie
Something very, very funny I discovered recently is that the 'Polish music' page on Wikipedia doesn't contain a SINGLE mention of discopolo. Not one: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Poland
Huge swathes of the country listen to this farmer pop dreck all the time - to me, it's synonymous with 'Polish music' - but no mention of it here? How does that work?
To me, this is another great example of the highly selective nature of Poland's national PR campaign. It's "so safe and clean" but they don't mention the football hooligan graffiti decorating the walls of every city or the fact that that the mafia and corrupt police have created a very lucrative industry out of spiking foreign visitors' drinks and draining their bank accounts. As usual, the image Poland proudly (some would say snottily) presents to the world is VASTLY different from the reality.
