CHOPIN – Ballades No. 1, 2, 3, 4 / Remastered (reference recording: Arthur Rubinstein 1959)

Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 Whether or not Chopin had a specific work of the Polish poet Mickiewicz in mind for each of his ballades, as some have suggested, there is no way of telling. It is sufficient for me to see in this opening introduction (the one in common time mentioned… Continue lendo CHOPIN – Ballades No. 1, 2, 3, 4 / Remastered (reference recording: Arthur Rubinstein 1959)

BEHEMOTH – Opvs Contra Cvltvram (live atop the Palace of Culture)

Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground. They gathered atop Poland's infamous Palace of Culture to perform four brand new tracks from their upcoming album Opvs Contra Natvram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea_At9QSstg THE DEATHLESS SUN I am… Continue lendo BEHEMOTH – Opvs Contra Cvltvram (live atop the Palace of Culture)

LABORATORIUM PIEŚNI – Songs of Peace

Songs don’t need words. They don’t need a translation. When you listen to them, you know. You feel. Songs embrace with their space everything THAT IS. They don’t create divisions between good and bad. Songs draw from light and shadow. Sound moves and touches in us both what is painful and what is full of… Continue lendo LABORATORIUM PIEŚNI – Songs of Peace

LABORATORIUM PIEŚNI – Ide were were/Ardhi | Live @ Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski

Laboratorium Pieśni est un groupe vocal fondé à Gdańsk en 2013 par Alina Jurczyszyn et Kamila Bigus, interprétant de la musique traditionnelle de différentes régions du monde (dont la Pologne, l'Ukraine, la Biélorussie, les Balkans, la Scandinavie et la Géorgie) et utilisant la polyphonie, du chant a cappella et divers instruments ethniques https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UA-STHKR54 Leur clip… Continue lendo LABORATORIUM PIEŚNI – Ide were were/Ardhi | Live @ Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski

BEHEMOTH – Live @ Wacken Open Air | Fvll concert (2022)

Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground. Until the late 1990s, the band played a traditional black metal style with heathen lyrical content, but soon changed to that of occult and thelemic themes written… Continue lendo BEHEMOTH – Live @ Wacken Open Air | Fvll concert (2022)

SARATAN – Ederlezi

Saratan ("Cancer" in Arabic) is a very interesting and unusual metal quartet from Poland, playing oriental/arabic music wrapped in with some aggressive metal sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5lhLLHxoZY Saratan are: Jarosław Niemiec - vocals, bass, tar, setar, cura, kamancheh, santur, saz Małgorzata „Maggie” Gwóźdź - vocals Adam Augustyński - guitars Michał Stefański - drums, darbuka, riq, tombak

Jakub Józef Orliński: countertenor and breakdancer

To all the conservative-reactionary biggots out there who insist in opposing between "higher (erudite) culture" and "lower (popular) culture": Polish countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAI4tvqcbBI The Sunday Times talks to Jakub Józef Orliński, a breakdancing countertenor from Poland who is singing the title role in Glyndebourne's production of Rinaldo this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF4YXv6ZIuE Le… Continue lendo Jakub Józef Orliński: countertenor and breakdancer