Ethnic Folk Music Archive from Poland & Eastern Europe - Mazurkas for rent
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If I had to explain mazurkas in the simplest terms, I would say that they are the songs and dances of the white slaves, which is what many Polish peasants were even into the nineteenth century. The most important ingredients of the mazurka have always been the singing and the dance. In triple time, of course.
Music Lost/Found Mazurkas for rent Ethnic folk music from Eastern Europe (Poland) Recordings from Andrzej Bienkowski's archives from years 2003-2007 www.musiclostfound.com
Label / Muzyka Odnaleziona, Poland (2010) Catalogue No / 009 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 / 30 tracks, total time 71 min
Mazurkas for rent
If I had to explain mazurkas in the simplest terms, I would say that they are the songs and dances of the white slaves, which is what many Polish peasants were even into the nineteenth century. No other dance has been able to invoke that sense of euphoria in dancers, and trancelike state in musicians, the way the mazurka has. Nearly every village had its own mazurkas – logos with which a village could be identified. The classic mazurka band is comprised of fiddle, basses and drum. Mazurkas have been played on harmonicas, accordions, fiddles and even whistled… But the most important ingredients of the mazurka have always been the singing and the dance. In triple time, of course.
Andrzej Bienkowski
Program /
1 Ober "Beetle" / Katarzyna Murawska - vocal (Kostrzyn, Radom Region 1984)
2 Ober "Beetle" / Franciszek Regula - harmonica (Krzeslawice, Radom Region 1984)
3 Oberek "Bielinskie olszynki" / Jan Karas - fiddle, Jan Babis - 4-string bass, Stanislaw Rogulski - tambourine, vocal (Antoniów, Radom Region 1986)
4 Mazurek "Beetle" / Józef Papis - fiddle, Leon Rek - 4-string bass, Piotr Gaca - tambourine (Microregion Kajoków, Radom Region 1983)
5 Mazurek "Beetle" / Marian Bujak - fiddle, Wladyslaw Olub - tambourine (Szydlowiec, Radom Region 1992)
6 Endless ober "Beetle" / Józef Kedzierski - fiddle, Stefan Kedzierski - 4-string bass, Tadeusz Duda - tambourine (Rdzuchów, Microregion Kajoków, Radom Region 1985)
7 Ober "Beetle" / Jan Kedzierski - 3-row accordion w/24-basses, Piotr Gaca - fiddle, Józef Kedzierski - baraban drum (Microregion Kajoków, Radom Region 2001)
8 Mazurek "Where are you going love..." ("Beetle") / Maciej Żurek - fiddle, Marek Ruczko - tambourine (Warszawa, April 2010)
9 Kajokis raps (przyspiewki kajockie) / Marianna Piecyk (Microregion Kajoków, Radom Region 1982)
10 Mazurek / Kazimierz Meto - fiddle, Józef Meto - 3 string bass, Wladyslaw Gmaj - tambourine, Józefa Sobolewska- vocal (Glina, Rawa Region, 1980)
11 Mazurek / Józef Szafranski - fiddle, Józef Kobacki - 3 string bass, Anna Koprek- vocal (Konewka, Rawa Region 1981)
12 Bass to mazurka and polka / Józef Szafranski - 3 string bass (Rawa Region 1981)
25 Mazurek / Waclaw Rogulski - fiddle, Wladyslaw Dembowski - 4-string bass, Stanislaw Zieja - tambourine (Zakosciele, Radom Region 1986)
26 Mazurek / Jan Fokt - 3-row accordion, Stanislaw Gidyk - fiddle, Jan Fokt - dzaz (Radom Region 1990)
27 Mazurek / Michal Wijata - fiddle, Adam Goska - 3 string bass, Stefan Tomasik - tambourine (Deba, Opoczyno Region 1984)
28 Mazurek medley / Antoni Bednarz - flute, Brass band (Tomaszów Lubelski 1986)
29 Mazurek "Poszedlem se do wikliny, uciolem se wic" / Kazimierz Kantor - 1st fiddle, vocal, Stanislaw Polec - 2nd fiddle, Piotr Szewczyk - 2nd fiddle, Zdzislaw Mosur - bass (Debica, Rzeszowskie 1995)
30 Mazurek / Krzysztof Rokicinski - 3-row accordion, w/120 basses, Kazimierz Petrzak - saxophone (Radom Region 2009)
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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