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1018660 TRANSKAPELA-over the village ()
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1018660 TRANSKAPELA-over the village () <br>(Item-Group:POLEN)(1)

*Over the Village* is an exploration into the world of the travelling klezmer musicians of the Carpathian mountains. Jewish artists who played on weddings, religious holidays and other festivities. It had been -- and still is -- a multic-cultural world: there were not only Jewish villages but also Bukovina highlanders, Hutsuls, Gypsies, Polish, Romanians, Hungarians, and many more. The Polish quartet Transkapela is digging into the music that had been played in the 19th and 20th century and is playing in the style of those bands that are lost and long forgotten: Ewa Wasilewska (violin, mazanki, i.e. a little fiddle), Maciej Filipczuk (violin, fiddle with trumpet, guitar, zongura, i.e. a Transsylvanian guitar), Robert Wasilewski (hammered dulcimer, viola, shepherd’s pipes, jew’s harp, guitar, zongura), Piotr Pniewski (cello, double bass, drum). The latter also plays the gardon, i.e. a stringed percussion instrument. Its shape resembles a cello. Three strings tuned to the same tone are hammered with a stick, while a fourth is plucked so that it recoils on the finger board. The travelling Jewish musicians have disappeared from the Carpathian scenery, however, Transkapela is able to beautifully revive the sights, sounds and ways of yore.

   
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