Ethnic Folk Music Archive from Poland & Eastern Europe - Kajoks - Around the Kedzierskis: Radom Voivodeship
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Kajoks – the most mysterious CD we have produced to date. We made our way to a forgotten region, where the musical Kedzierski family has been teaching local musicians for two hundred years. This has resulted in some extraordinarily original music.
Music Lost/Found Kajoks - Around the Kedzierskis: Radom Voivodeship Ethnic folk music from Eastern Europe (Poland) Recordings from Andrzej Bienkowski's archives from years 2003-2007 www.musiclostfound.com
Label: Muzyka Odnaleziona, Poland (2008) Catalogue No: 007 Format: Book with CD Book: 48 pages, size 15 X 14 cm (5.5" x 5.9"), hard cover binding, in Polish language, many photos with detailed description. CD: 28 tracks, total time 66 min 53 seconds
Kajoks - Around the Kedzierskis: Radom Voivodeship
Kajoks – the most mysterious CD we have produced to date. We made our way to a forgotten region, where the musical Kedzierski family has been teaching local musicians for two hundred years. This has resulted in some extraordinarily original music. Józef Kedzierski was both king and teacher of the fiddle, and thanks to him we had the opportunity to listen to mazurkas which were more reminiscent of improvised jazz. He was capable of improvising a mazurka for forty minutes! The musicians who played in this style were called Kajoks. This CD explores their music.
Andrzej Bienkowski
Program:
1. Polka 1'20" / Józef Kedzierski - fiddle, Stefan Kedzierski - 4-string bass, vocal, Józef Kedzierski - tambourine (Rdzuchów 1983)
2. Eternal Ober "Matulenko radosna, jalówecka w las posla" 12'34" / Józef Kedzierski - fiddle, Stefan Kedzierski - tambourine, vocal (Rdzuchów 1980)
3. Eternal Ober 1'11" / Jan Binczyk - fiddle, Józef Kasiak - tambourine, vocal (Wir 1981)
4. Eternal Ober 2'25" / Franciszek Panczak - fiddle, Stefan Cieslik - tambourine (Kolonia Baków 1982)
5. Eternal Ober 4'22" / Józef Piecyk - fiddle, Jan Kietla - tambourine, vocal (Baków 1988)
7. Oberek 3'11" / Jan Babis - fiddle, Jan Jedrzejczak baraban with cymbal, Jan Karas - 4-string bass (Antoniów 1984)
8. Eternal Oberek "Oj cztery godzinecki a prosil kochanecki, zeby mu podala da z miodem gorzalecki” 2'03" / Waclaw Neska - fiddle, Piotr Nowak - tambourine, vocal (Wygnanów 1983)
9. Eternal Oberek 1'45" / Jan Klosinski (ur. 1899) - harmonica (Przystalowice Male 1980)
10. Eternal Oberek 11'09" / Józef Kasiak - fiddle, Tadeusz Jedynak - 4-string bass, Józef Kadziela - tambourine (Przystalowice Male 1983)
12. March Weder 5'07" / Walenty Mirecki - fiddle, Józef Janowiecki 3-string bass, Jan Sadowski - tambourine, vocal (Brogowa 1983)
13. Eternal Ober 2'32" / Mieczyslaw Kedzierski - accordion, Józef Papis - fiddle, Józef Kedzierski - baraban drum (Rdzuchów 1988)
14. Mazurki Kedzierskiego 5'45" / Janusz Prusinowski - fiddle, Michal Zak basy, Piotr Piszczatowski - tambourine (Warszawa, 2008)
About Music Lost/Found Series
Poland, 1980, and Communism is facing collapse. Petrol is being rationed, the shops are empty. I begin my journey through the countryside to record music. It’s strange, because there are a great many folk bands, but their services are no longer required in the villages or towns. Musicians stop playing and sell off their instruments; slowly but surely they are forgotten. The first difficulty we faced was finding them replacement instruments. I met musicians who hadn’t seen each other in years, having once played weddings together regularly; this was the last generation of village musicians. Then came the dawn of the pop era. We filmed and made unique music recordings in the musicians’ homes, which were natural, stress-free environments. We searched throughout Poland, Ukraine and Belarus and found 1500 musicians, as well as singers, and from this number we reconstructed eighty bands. Our archive contains recordings of some of the oldest village bands, as well as contemporary wedding music. We have thousands of field photographs. However, the real jewels in our collection are undoubtedly the photographs taken by the original village photographers, who faithfully captured weddings, parties, funerals and daily life.
Andrzej Bienkowski
Andrzej Bienkowski is a painter, ethnographer, writer and professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. For the last thirty years he has traversed rural Poland to document and record the music of village fiddlers, accordionists and singers. He has produced many books and films about rural Polish music, including the Music Lost & Found series. He owns the largest private collection of rural music in Poland.
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