Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa: There's no need to dance!
The sitting audience of the concert hall "Minsk" helped the Polish guests and the hosts - the ethno-trio "Troitsa" - to get into trance.
"Well, the dreams which are 10 or 15 years old are starting to come true. As, when Troitsa went abroad for the first time, we saw the biggest festivals in Europe and were astonished how 40 concert grounds could work simultaneously, for instance, in Hungary, and different musicians could play at a time. And today, our dream that ethnical bands from other countries would also perform in Belarus, has come true", - this is how Ivan Kirchuk started the historical ethno-concert and the set of Troitsa.
Ivan Kirchuk
Yury Paulouski
Truly, two giants of the Eastern European ethno-music - Troitsa and Kapela ze Wsi Warszwa came up to a concert ground in Minsk together for the first time. Both bands have their honours and history, albums and voyages around the world, grandmother's and grandfather's songs in the repertoire. While Troitsa dips a listener into a warm lake with wispering mermaids and suggests to relax, Kapela ze Wsi Warszwa forces to yield to the pulsations of the Mother-Earth and to merge with it in the multi-voices extasy.
Yury Dzmitryeu
"For me, the concert of Troitsa is always a strong blow of power, it's like, as Ivan Kirchuk said today, running barefoot on the same soil you ran barefoot when you were a kid. The Polish guests made a good competition for Troitsa. I think this is a totally different band but it gave me some energy as well", - comments writer Uladzimir Arlou.
Uladzimir Arlou
Apart from the songs of the album "Zimachka", Troitsa sang a new song to their listeners for the first time - a Kupalle song "Fire Tsar". The musicians used ordinary village cauldrons as percussion and tried to convey the catarsis that our ancestors felt.
Kapela ze Wsi Warszwa
Kapela ze Wsi Warszwa were worried - this was their first concert in Belarus, which had always been either a stop on the way to Russia or a mysterious land with strange reality - as they write in newspapers, or according to the friends' tales…
"When we had passed a considerable part of Belarus we noticed that there is unbeliavably beautiful nature here - what a space, what good vibrations! We felt that a different vibration exists here, not like in Poland, there is something natural here, that the West demolished. I feel wonderful vibrations here, I feel at home: there is still the same Slavic soul and cordiality of the people", - says the band's musician Maciej Szajkowski.
Euroradio was also worried: Kapela ze Wsi Warszwa – is a totally festival-oriented band. The Poles and the Europeans are used to dancing to such music. However, it is not always possible to dance in big concert halls in Minsk. And there is not always such a need, as it turned out…
Maciej Szajkowski
"No, there's no need to dance, don't dance! They were sitting and listening. I saw them smiling. This was wonderful. I saw generosity, joy, cordial acceptance. This was something we could possible dream of - acceptance! We are very grateful for that. This hall is very specific, you should pick the music to adjust to it. However, we saw the people decorating the hall with themselves. So we were in a sort of a hypnotic state, our trademark trance", - Maciej Szajkowski continues.
Besides, Maciej is studying the Belarusian
language and is going to go for a "quire" expedition to the
Belarusian old ladies in Autumn. Until then, the mega-popular Polish band is
preparing to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The festive concert will take
place on July 7 in Ceszyn - the town in the mountains near the border with the
Czech Republic - and will gather everyone who has any connections with the
music of Kapela ze Wsi Warszwa,
as well as friends and fans…
And
- best regards to the Polish Institute in Minsk, the Adam Mickiewicz fund, and
the Pan-studio for coming up with an idea of such a wonderful concert, and to
the Belarusian musicians as well - from the Kapela!
