Ethnic Folk Music Archive from Poland & Eastern Europe - The Four Sides of Rawa County: Rawa Mazowiecka
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The little town of Rawa Mazowiecka was famous for its great markets. It was also always a wonderful cultural melting pot, filled with the sounds of Polish and Jewish music.
Music Lost/Found The Four Sides of Rawa County: Rawa Mazowiecka 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: 006 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 64 min 20 seconds
The Four Sides of Rawa County: Rawa Mazowiecka
The little town of Rawa Mazowiecka was famous for its great markets, where anything could be bought or sold. It was also a meeting place for musicians. They would travel from all parts to showcase their playing and receive bookings to play weddings. It was a wonderful cultural melting pot, filled with the sounds of Polish and Jewish music. The book and accompanying CD explore this.
2. Oberek 0'34" / Stanislaw Klejnas Band (Raducz, 1986)
3. Mazurka 4'36" / Marian Gierach Band: Marian Gierach - fiddle, vocal, Stanislaw Mlynarczyk 3-string bass, vocal, Boleslaw Kaczmarek - tambourine (Lipie, 1987. South of Rawa)
4. Mazurka 1'22" / Marian Gierach Band ( Lipie, 1987 )
5. Oberek 1'26" / Józef Zaczkiewicz Band : Józef Zaczkiewicz - fiddle, Stanislaw Zak - button accordion, Stanislaw Dembowski - clarinet C, Tadeusz Major - - baraban drum (Turobowice, 1988. East of Rawa)
6. Mazurka 2'57" / Jan Makowski Band: Jan Makowski - fiddle, Boleslaw Michalski - baraban drum (Emilianów, 1987. South West of Rawa)
7. Oberek 1'34" / Józef Zaczkiewicz Band (Turobowice, 1988)
8. Oberek 3'06" / Stanislaw Rosinski Band: Stanislaw Rosinski - accordion, Andrzej Leszczynski - fiddle, Jan Sujka - baraban drum (Michowice, 1995. North of Rawa)
9. Chanted Oberek 2'56" / Stanislaw Rosinski Band (Michowice, 1995)
10. Polka 2'35" / Jan Makowski Band (Emilianów, 1987)
11. Mazurka 4'27" / Wladyslaw Piatkowski Band: Wladyslaw Piatkowski - 3-row accordion, Michal Rydz - fiddle, Józef Pacholczyk - baraban drum, vocal (Sadykierz, 1987. South of Rawa)
12. Oberek 3'25" / Wladyslaw Piatkowski Band (Sadykierz, 1987)
13. Oberek 2'27" / Michal Rydz Band: Michal Rydz - fiddle, Stanislaw Goska - 3-string bass, Kazimierz Pawlak - tambourine (Sadykierz, 1987)
14. Oberek 1'25" / Józef Ozimek Band: Józef Ozimek - fiddle, Jerzy Dierzek - 3-string bass, Jan Kostanek - tambourine (Sierzchowy, 1995. South of Rawa)
15. Sheep-dog 1'40" / Tadeusz Wojtkiewicz Band: Tadeusz Wojtkiewicz - fiddle, Jan Palagiewicz - baraban drum (Nowe Studzianki, 1988. West of Rawa)
16. Oberek 1'02" / Jerzeg Dzierzek Band: Jerzy Dzierzek - fiddle, Józef Ozimek 3-string bass, Jan Kostanek - tambourine (Sierzchowy, 1995)
17. Mazurka 2'18" / Mariana Toczek Band: Marian Toczek - fiddle, vocal, Marian Winiarski - 4-row accordion, Wladyslaw Winiarski - baraban drum (Matyldów, 1990. South of Rawa)
18. Mazurka 4'31" / Nowicki Family Band: Antoni Nowicki - fiddle, Waclaw Nowicki - 3-string bass, vocal, Adam Nowicki - tambourine (Osowice, 1988. South West of Rawa)
19. Mazurka 3'28" / Nowicki Family Band (Osowice, 1988)
20. Chanted Oberek 0'34" / Stanislaw Klejnas Band (Raducz, 1986)
21. Mazurka 6'46" / Szewczyk Family Band: Jan Szewczyk - fiddle, Józef Szewczyk - baraban drum (Skoczyklody, 1992. North of Rawa)
22. Polka 1'38" / Józef Ozimek Band (Sierzchowy, 1995)
23. Foxtrot 2'18" / Jan Lewandowski Band: Jan Lewandowski - harmonia 3-rzedowa, Tadeusz Wojtkiewicz - fiddle, Jan Palagiewicz - baraban drum (Nowe Studzianki, 1988)
24. Oberek 1'47" / Marian Toczek Band (Matyldów, 1990)
25. Polka 2'07" / Stanislaw Klejnas Band (Raducz, 1986)
26. Oberek 1'49" / "Rawianie" Band from Rawa Mazowiecka (Kazimierz, 2003)
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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