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When you think of music from "other places," you either picture bands playing local traditional music or playing some form of global pop in their native language. But warsaw Village Band, on their latest album Infinity (Barbes Records; April 7th), is forging a little-known third path for musicians "from somewhere else," from the places rarely covered in the news or taking the lead in current events, but places with roots extending deep into world culture.
This is music that is both inherently Polish, and inherently new. “People nowadays have forgotten that pop music comes from the past,” WVB songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wojtek Krzak muses. “There would be no Rihanna, no Destiny’s Child without rock and roll. John Mayall and Elvis Presley wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for Black musicians from the Mississippi Delta. So, how can we really say where tradition ends and pop or classical music begins?”READ MORE…
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