9 Polish pop artists at the Kraków Live Festival you need to know to be in
The 2022 edition of the Kraków Live Festival had a purely pop vibe. It featured electro-pop, hip-pop, neo-pop and rock-pop artists from abroad and Poland. Check out the Polish segment of the programme and see how up to date you are with Polish pop music and culture.
The Sunday Sessions: Cult Multi-kulti Kraków-folk Ensemble
A gift for melody and a charming penchant for live impromptu jams in legendary Kraków watering dens, founding member Phil Soanes reminisces on the collaborative songwriting project The Sunday Sessions, still fondly remembered by anyone lucky enough to have caught them in their element – live – in 2009 and 2010.
Gaslighting & Angst: Winners of the Art and Violence 2020 Composition Competition
Meet the winners of the Art and Violence International Composition Competition 2020 organised by the 2Act Foundation in Kraków. Read the interviews with the composers and get to know about their musical careers, influences, likes and interests.
Music Poles: 10 Albums & 5 Decades of Popular Polish Music (part 2 of 2)
Follow up on Luc’s socio-cultural experiment involving university students and a sample of 10 albums spanning 5 decades of Polish popular music. It’s not about the ranking, it’s about negotiating meaning.
My Life as a Poodle: Püdelsi’s First Vocalist. An Appreciation of the Band’s Founder, Andrzej Bieniasz
David Rocks, the first vocalist of Püdelsi, reminisces on his time spent in Kraków in 1985 when he met and played with the late Andrzej Püdel Bieniasz.
Music Poles: 10 Albums & 5 Decades of Popular Polish Music (part 1 of 2)
When I was invited by the editor of Kraków Music to prepare a column under a title which would sound like ‘The 10 Polish albums that…’, my immediate answer was: ‘Yes, but no!’.
Finnish Bluegrass under a Bieszczady Moon Reaps a Harvest of Plenty:
A Review of Paula Wolski’s New Album
The mature debut album from Finnish songstress Paula Wolski is powerful and playful in equal measure. Recorded in an old barn turned bar-slash-music venue in the Bieszczady mountains, LATO means barn in Finnish as well as summer in Polish. Listen to the first two singles and read the full review.