(Catalogue no. 15665)
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| Title: |
Tu! |
| Artist: |
Molr Drammaz |
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Label: |
MikMusik |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 12.90 |
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Title Description:
We have been invited to represent silesian culture during EXPO2000 world exhibition in Hannover. So we decided to make something special for such great occasion. It was clear.
And we chose silesian subject, of course. For many years we have been exploring world outside us, dreaming about distant travels, and finally there was time to dig closer, in our surroundings, inside ourselves, family life. We wanted to search for our own, primar identity.
On Silesia sound is a very important being. This land of connected nature and industry in very special, heavy way, with complicated history and remarkable way of thinking of its people, is producing soundscape impossible to meet anywhere else.
We have been recoded a lot of emptiness and silence, and after some treating this phenomenas started to show hidden hyperactive life inside of them.
How to describe silesian atmosphere? First of all it doesn't belong to the cleanest in the world. For almost century it was the biggest industrial area of Poland. Now it is not black-snowing any more, but sounds produced here are coal-heavy and dusted still.
In Silesia nature is closely connected with technology. This is the very particular, sometimes strange mix of the ancient with contemporary, naturekind with humankind. Emotion with feeling. Very grey with very green.
We tried to approach these states with music for this Expo shows, and later for this album.
But, not only sounds or music in itself. Also words are important here. We invited to this project the oldest member of our family, our 83 years old aunt Lica (almost 90 now). We asked her to tell us stories from her long life, which entirely is spent here, on this land. To make a bridge between past and present, to give some advices for the future. Her stories, tales, songs and jokes were awesome and amazing. Some of them we have heard for the first time, some we knew well, but in different versions. It was jawdropping, hearttouching and very funny as well. And this is very essential - everything was told in the disappearing sweet silesian slang, language of the old people, unfortunately forgotten among the youngsters. In our meeting with aunt Lica our mother was taking a part, sometimes adding some clues. Because, by the way, this record is very feminine. In my opinion, Silesia is a woman, even if its polish name is masculine.
When we connected music and speeches we got kind of document, reportage, word-play, or even a plot, very much emotional and beautiful. And what we found very nice - it was understood not only here or in Poland in general, but also abroad, even if the language difference is completely obvious. This fact tells, that if you dig well your own identity, sooner or later you touch the pure humanity, with problems and experiences common for each of us.
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