from the CD Uprooting The title "Uprooting" - "Wykorzenienie" is intended to provoke, taking us to a similar place as the Rastafarian "upliftment"; in other words, a kind of spiritual attachment emerging from the very roots of musical culture. The music the WARSAW VILLAGE BAND presents on this CD is something of a continuation of their beginnings, even though the band has changed and reinvented. "Uprooting" is extremely rich and varied: traditional Polish music is combined here with modern sounds such as scratching and dubbing. In addition to the 2004 BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD, their CD People's Spring reaped outstanding reviews throughout Europe, Canada and the US In the course of the twelve months since then, their schedule has been chock-full with concert dates: in France, Italy, Northern Ireland, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Taiwan, Pakistan, the US and Canada. Their new CD Uprooting (JARO 4261-2) was released in UK,D,A in the end of 2004 and is scheduled to appear in the US, Canada, France, Spain and Japan in 2005. A DVD is also on the agenda for 2006. They contributed musically to the best-selling computer game "Myst III" and are greatly in demand as partnerse for collaboration. Even if Poland is now a member of the EU, Europeans still regard it as the unknown neighbour to the east, especially with regard to the music scene. We've heard of Klezmer and that's about it. "They" are the Warsaw Village Band, founded in 1997, the winner of the Polish <b>...</b>
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