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Kapela ze wsi Warszawa

Kapela ze wsi Warszawa (English: Warsaw Village Band) is a band from Warsaw, Poland which plays traditional Polish folk music tunes combined with modern elements. According to the band's creative manifesto, it was formed as a response to mass culture and narrow-mindedness, "which in fact leads to destruction of human dignity." Indeed, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the expansion of the European Union to most of the former Warsaw Pact countries, Poland's economy has grown dramatically, while at the same time ushering in investment by a number of multinational corporations...

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Warsaw Village Band

True to their name, Warsaw Village Band (in polish: Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa )is based out of Warsaw, Poland, and combine traditional Polish folk music with modern sound elements. In juxtaposing traditional instruments - including frame drums, hurdy gurdys, "white voice" style singing and the rarely-heard suka bilgoraiska - and electronica, they create a sound that has been described as "hardcore folk" and "bio-techno."

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