Discography

Warsaw Village Band - Upmixing
(Kayax / Jaro Medien 2008)

Following a one-year “maternity/paternity leave”, Warsaw Village Band is returning to the world of CDs and concert stages with two new albums. The first to appear will be the remix CD “Upmixing”. In response to countless requests from the world’s DJs, this CD was produced with the consent of the musicians. The band’s only condition was that it should be a Reggae remix album on the basis of their last studio CD “Uprooting”. The Warsaw Village Band wanted to avoid a mix of mutually incompatible styles. They also stipulated that several of the pieces were to be produced in various versions.

This follow-up to their enthusiastically received People's Spring consolidates their position with an exhilarating rush of perverted traditionalism. (...) The WVB's hectic vocal lines have a harsh, almost shouted quality which might scare off some listeners. Likewise, the string sounds are grainy-edged and aggressively scraped. The drumming is direct and powerful, recorded close-up for maximum resonance. It is these qualities, however, which lend their old folk material a crucial sense of immediacy and excitement.

Martin Longley, BBC3, November 2004

Booming drums, bowed bass, a tish of cymbal, sheets of scratchy fiddles, and bawled female vocals in the style of the traditional rural 'white voice'. It's a surging exuberant noise as this bunch of young Poles dig into the songs and dance music of their country's villages, in an approach the sleevenotes describe as "bio-techno". It's a mass of churning organic acousticity, emphasised with some well-integrated use of echoes and effects; none of your old-hat techno thud-tick here, except possibly for a hint in the dancier of the two remixes at the end of the album, which has a driving grainy groove slightly reminiscent of the acoustic-writ-large approach of Sweden's Hedningarna.

Andrew Cronshaw, fRoots Magazine May 2003

They play just as they feel - soundly and happily. In their music there is everything - joy and musing, everyday work, smell of fresh clover, taste of spring water and the most joyful and cleanest youth.

Gazeta Wyborcza, 12.04.1998