3.8.17

Beauty comes from the heart...


Jarzębina
Łoj dolo moja dolo

 
Tracks:

01. Dziewcyno nadobna - 4:14
02. Po boru chodziła - 1:55
03. Dobro ja meme miała - 4:45
04. Wisienki - 2:53
05. Podróżniak - 2:25
06. Dołem dołem - 3:20
07. Tem pod borem - 4:46
08. Wysła Meniusia - 2:35
09. Polka weselna - 3:11
10. Oczepiny - 6:50
11. Łoj chmilu - 2:49
12. Przyśpiewki weselne - 8:54
13. Piosenka żydowska - 3:21
14. Cegoś mie memo za muż wydała - 2:34
15. Cieszcie się dziewczęta - 3:02
16. Jechoł pen gajowy - 2:01
17. Łoj dolo moja dolo - 2:16
18. Kołysanka Janiny Oleszek - 3:07

Irena Krawiec (vocals)
Lucyna Jargiło (vocals)
Monika Jargiło (vocals)
Janina Dyjach (vocals)
Beata Oleszek (vocals)
Janina Oleszek (vocals)
Bogumiła Smagała (vocals)
Władysława Dycha (vocals)

Accordion, Hurdy Gurdy, Vocals, Jew's Harp, Arranged By – Jacek Hałas (tracks: 3, 7, 12-17)
Drum – Alicja Choromańska-Hałas
Edited By, Accordion, Mastered By – Witold Roy Zalewski
Fiddle, suka – Krzysztof Butryn (tracks: 1, 5, 12)
Fiddle, Text By – Ewa Grochowska (tracks: 3, 7, 12, 14-15)
Graphics, Typography – Joanna Jarco
Photography – Mateusz Borny
Recorded By, Mixed By – Michał Kowalski
Text By – Remigiusz Hanaj
Vocals – zespół dziecięcy Wisienki

Guests:

Zbigniew Butryn (bas)
Mateusz Borny (suka, kornet)
Edward Pachuta (kornet)
Iza Gąbka (saksofon)
Jakub Dycha (trumpet)
Olena Yeremenko (violin)
Piotr Deptuła (fiddle)
  
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 Prezentujemy Państwu najnowszą płytę zespołu "Jarzębina". Płyta została wydana przez Starostwo Powiatowe. Jak pisała szefowa zespołu, Irena Krawiec na płycie zostały umieszczone pieśni tradycyjne, zaśpiewane w tradycyjnej kocudzkiej gwarze. Płyta prezentuje 18 utworów i piosenek wykonanych przez "Jarzębinę" z towarzyszeniem muzyków grających na skrzypcach, drumli, basach suce biłgorajskiej, harmonii i bębnach. W nagraniach usłyszymy orkiestrę dętą, zespół wspomogły też dzieci z zespołu "Wisienki".

Zapraszamy do posłuchania


 JARZĘBINA Ensemble

The music ensemble Jarzębina is amongst the most known singing groups in Poland. It was established in 1990, in the Community Culture Center in Kocudza, a village in the Janowski district, on the Roztocze hill range, one of the most interesting ethnographic regions in the Lublin area.

Jarzębina is a traditional, multi-generational female group led by Irena Krawiec. It is one of the most active in the Janowski area, recognized with many awards and honorary mentions. It consists of a singing group and ceremonial group. The music ensemble represents a rich and diverse genre repertoire of monophonic ceremonial and common songs. The repertoire is rooted in the oral tradition, based mainly on songs handed down from generation to generation in the families as well as numerous songbooks: folk carols, pastorals, Advent, Lenten and Easter psalms. The psalms and dialogues are performed in the Kocudzki dialect, with great attention to detail, such as the original tempo, volume and artistic style.

It is important to point out the unique funeral and Lenten psalms that brought Jarzębina its place amongst the leading music ensembles. Within its numerous activities, the group pays special attention to devising and preparing shows. They remind us of the life once led in the villages, according to the natural calendar and also cultivate old customs and traditions. In Jarzebina’s repertoire there is: Wesele kocudzkie (A Kocudza Wedding), Ocepiny (Capping ceremony), Prasowocki (Ironers), Miedlorki i pocirocki (Linen-Working), Łostatni rózeniec (The Last Rosary), Świecok (Food-Blessing), Mielenie w żarnach (Quern-Stone Grinding), Pośnik kocudzki (Kocudza Christmas Celebrations) and Herody kocudzkie (The Kocudza Christmas Pageant).

The group finds fulfillment playing concerts and theatrical productions of old ceremonies and traditions, performing abroad, in addition to touring the whole country, as well as being an active participant in the social and cultural life of their village, community, district and region. In 2012, Jarzębina gained popularity due to the song “Ko-ko Euro spoko”, although it has been appreciated for many years before that for its stylish and very expressive way of performing traditional repertoire. The constant invitations to festivals, solo concerts as well as a group of followers all across the country is more than enough proof of that.

Jarzębina has performed at musical reviews and festivals in: Kazimierz (an honorary mention in 1991, a guest performance with the show Linen-Working in 1993, the first prize - 2001, 2007, 2011); in Tarnogród (1991-1995); in Baranów Sandomierski (The Polish Festival of Orphan Tales and Songs 1992-1999); in Tychy (Theatrical Meetings 1996-1998); in Nadrzecze (The House Serving the Polish Art of Word, Music and Image 1997-2000); in Jarosław (The International Festival Early Music 1998-2000); in Kawkowo (The International Meetings Drama and Liturgy 1995-2002); in Zebrzydowice (The International Musical Review of Regional Groups 2002); in Modliborzyce (The Interdistrict Musical Review of Traditional Carols and Pastorals 1999-2003).

The group devotes much attention to ensuring the continuity of traditional culture in the local community. Jarzębina learns songs and gives concerts together with their “younger daughters” – the children’s group Wisienki. Jarzebina’s members have been teaching the Kocudzki style of singing for years, also outside of their community, for example in the Węgajty Theatre Schola, Gregoriana Silesiensis Schola or occasionally at special workshops (mainly led by Beata Oleszek). In 2006, the group was the co-organizer of the Tabor in Kocudza – a weekend summer camp that teaches the Lubelski school musical tradition.


   The musical ensemble Jarzębina with all its members: the back row from the left Lucyna Jargiło, Bronisława Dyjach, Janina Oleszek, Władysława Dycha i Genowefa Góra, in the front row from the left Monika Jargiło, Beata Oleszek, Irena Krawiec, photograph by Remek Mazur-Hanaj, Kocudza in 1999.

A turning point for Jarzebina turned out to be the show “The Last Rosary” (łOstatni rózeniec), that had its premiere in 1995 and gained a prominent place in the history of folk ceremonial theatre. At that time, the group began their collaboration with in crudo music centers, especially the Warsaw Dance House Association (concerts as part of the Stage Roots as well as the series Let me sing Your Passion and There is a Ladder to Heaven 1995-2003). Since 1998 with the Węgajty Theatre Schola, the group participated in international theatrical and musical projects and a young singer from Kocudza Beata Oleszek, became an actress and a singer in the Schola for many many years. At the Songs of Our Roots Festival in Jarosław, Jarzębina sang at a memorable concert along with the Italian Micrologus. They also participated in a series of Lenten concerts, mainly the Dominican Order Lenten Singing in Lublin, Lenten concerts at the Poznań School of Dance or the Wrocław Gregorian Silesiensis Schola. Henryk Mikołaj Górecki highly valued Jarzebina’s singing. The group’s performance can be found in the most important archives; academic, radio and many private archives. Some of which have been published in anthologies of traditional music – publishers In Crudo (three CDs) and Muzyka Odnaleziona. The group has taken part in numerous radio and television programmes, there are three documentaries dedicated to the musical ensemble done by TVP 2; the singers were also capable of finding their way so to speak in modern art (a project by Anna Molska, “The Weepers”). Finally, there have been several Bachelor and Master’s thesis’s written about Jarzebina.



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1.8.17

The Last Village Musicians...

 
Andrzej Bieńkowski
Ostatni wiejscy muzykanci
 

 
Tracks:

01. Mazurek. Mikroregion Rzeczycy 1980/Kazimierz Meto (ur. 1922) skrzypce, Józef Meto (ur. 1939) basy, śpiew
02. Oberek. Mikroregion Rzeczycy 1987/Jan Lewandowski (ur. 1919) skrzypce, Stanisław Lewandowski (ur. 1927) basy, Stanisław Kaczmarek (ur. 1924) bębenek
03. Oberek. Mikroregion Rzeczycy 1987/Michał Rydz (ur. 1924) skrzypce, Stanisław Goska (ur. 1925) basy, Władysław Piątkowski (ur. 1932) bębenek
04. Oberek Śpiewak. Mikroregion Rzeczycy 1987/Stanisław Skiba (ur. 1932) skrzypce, Jan Osiński (ur. 1927) basy trzystrunowe, Stefan Chudy (ur. 1938) bębenek
05. Oberek. Rawskie 1987/Aleksander Nowakowski (ur. 1905) skrzypce, Władysław Kośka (ur. 1935) basy, Stefan Nowakowski (ur. 1930) baraban
06. Oberek Śpiewak. Radomskie 1981/Bolesław Zarębski (ur. 1913) skrzypce, Edward Fogt (ur. 1930) śpiew
07. Oberek Ciągły. Radomskie 1987/Jan Rogoliński (ur. 1907) skrzypce, Józef Lament (ur. 1911) bębenek
08. Oberek Ciągły. Radomskie 1981/Marian Lipiec (ur. 1937) harmonia, Piotr Strzałkowski (ur. 1926) skrzypce, Marian Lipiec (ur. 1958) werbel
09. Oberek Rdzuchowiak. Mikroregion Kajoków 1983/Józef Kędzierski (ur. 1913) skrzypce, Stefan Kędzierski (ur. 1921) basy, śpiew, Józef Kędzierski (ur. 1939) bębenek
10. Oberek Śpiewak. Mikroregion Kajoków 1988/Józef Piecyk (ur. 1932) skrzypce, Jan Kietla (ur. 1913) bębenek, śpiew
11. Oberek Śpiewak. Mikroregion Kajoków 1983/Walenty Mirecki (ur. 1911) skrzypce, Józef Janowiecki (ur. 1910) basy, Jan Sadowski (ur. 1925) bębenek, śpiew, Helena Wojtunik śpiew
12. Oberek Kazimierkowy. Mikroregion Kajoków 1997/Stanisław Ciarkowski (ur 1931) skrzypce, Józef Ciarkowski (ur. 1926) bębenek, Leokadia Ciarkowska śpiew
13. Oberek Pobiedziński. Dolina Pilicy 1988/Jan Michalski (ur. 1916) harmonia, Wacław Rek (ur. 1928) skrzypce, Józef Michalski (ur. 1939) baraban
14. Oberek Rytka. Mikroregion Kraśnicy 1984/Józef Fiderek (ur. 1909) skrzypce, Franciszek Wolowski (ur. 1919) basy, Tadeusz Fiderek (ur. 1940) baraban
15. Oberek. Mikroregion Kraśnicy 1984/Michał Wijata (ur. 1920) skrzypce, Adam Goska (ur. 1909) basy, Stefan Tomasik (ur. 1910) bębenek
16. Oberek. Opoczyńskie 1984/Tadeusz Podwysocki (ur. 1926) skrzypce, Stanisław Wilk (ur. 1914) bębenek
17. Oberek. Łowickie 1981/Leopold Talarowski (ur. 1904) harmonia dwurzędowa, Stanisław Domański (ur. 1926) baraban
18. Mazur. Mikroregion Księżaków 1992/Jan Szewczyk (ur. 1925) skrzypce, Józef Szewczyk (ur. 1966) baraban
19. Mazurek. Rawskie 1990/Jan Dziąg (ur. 1922) skrzypce, Jan Dziąg (ur. 1950) baraban
20. Oberek. Pogranicze Rawsko-Księżackie 1994/Stanisław Lewandowski (ur. 1934) skrzypce, Józef Szymczak (ur. 1927) baraban
21. Mazurek. Radomskie 1986/Władysław Cieślik (ur. 1919) skrzypce, Józef Bębenek (ur. 1919) harmonia pedałowa, Stanisław Cieloch (ur. 1924) bębenek, śpiew
22. Światówka. Radomskie 1981/Antoni Wyrwiński (ur. 1921) harmonia pedałowa, Adam Wyrwiński (ur. 1924) skrzypce, Jan Karczewski (ur. 1944) baraban
23. Mazurek Lesiacki. Radomskie 1992/Antoni Wrzesień (ur. 1914) skrzypce, Józef Wrzesień (ur. 1911) skrzypce, Stefan Kaczmarek (ur. 1922) bębenek
24. Oberek Kajocki Bąk. Radomskie 1984/Franciszek Reguła (ur. 1916) organki
25. Oberek ciągły. Radomskie 1982/Stanisław Motyl (ur. 1904) skrzypce, Jan Przybyszewski (ur. 1917) skrzypce, Stanisław Przybyszewski (ur. 1951) akordeon, Stanisław Wiatkowski (ur. 1941) bębenek
26. Oberek Bielińskie olszynki. Radomskie 1986/Jan Karaś (ur. 1917) skrzypce, Jan Babis (ur. 1914) basy, Stanisław Rogulski (ur. 1919) bębenek, śpiew 
  
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 This recording is an extraordinary document. It was recorded in Central Poland between 1980 and 2000 in the homes of rural musicians who had not played together in years. The emotions which ensued are clearly audible in the recording ? this atmosphere is impossible to replicate in a recording studio.

As time passes, it will become increasingly impossible to produce a recording like this. A chance to listen to rural folk bands playing in the same style as their predecessors of over 150 years before, and to hear the basses and accordions of village musicians at weddings in the 1980s.

 Andrzej Bieńkowski

 Andrzej Bieńkowski recording.

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 About Music Lost/Found Series
 

Poland, 1980, and Communism is facing collapse. Petrol is being rationed, the shops are empty. I begin my journey through the countryside to record music. It’s strange, because there are a great many folk bands, but their services are no longer required in the villages or towns. Musicians stop playing and sell off their instruments; slowly but surely they are forgotten. The first difficulty we faced was finding them replacement instruments. I met musicians who hadn’t seen each other in years, having once played weddings together regularly; this was the last generation of village musicians. Then came the dawn of the pop era. We filmed and made unique music recordings in the musicians’ homes, which were natural, stress-free environments. We searched throughout Poland, Ukraine and Belarus and found 1500 musicians, as well as singers, and from this number we reconstructed eighty bands. Our archive contains recordings of some of the oldest village bands, as well as contemporary wedding music. We have thousands of field photographs. However, the real jewels in our collection are undoubtedly the photographs taken by the original village photographers, who faithfully captured weddings, parties, funerals and daily life.

Małgorzata Bieńkowska

Małgorzata Bieńkowska is a graphic designer, and book illustrator. Since 1986, she and her husband Andrzej Bieńkowski, worked on documenting Polish and Ukrainian village life. In November of 2007 she opened "Muzyka Odnaleziona" - a publishing firm devoted to documenting ethnic music and photo archives from Eastern Europe. She is engaged in publishing, graphic books development, concert productions, exhibitions and public relations.

Andrzej Bienkowski

Andrzej Bienkowski is a painter, ethnographer, writer and professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. For the last thirty years he has traversed rural Poland to document and record the music of village fiddlers, accordionists and singers. He has produced many books and films about rural Polish music, including the Music Lost & Found series. He owns the largest private collection of rural music in Poland. 


There is not a single bad track on their CD's...

a serious treasure...

lovingly published...

Lucky Poland!


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