{"id":3673,"date":"2016-02-27T22:56:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2020-05-11T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T21:00:06","slug":"ksiezyc-takes-part-in-the-kraak-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2016\/02\/27\/ksiezyc-takes-part-in-the-kraak-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"KSI\u0118\u017bYC takes part in the KRAAK Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This edition of the\u00a0<\/span>festival KRAAK<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>like the 17 which have gone before, will lead lovers of adventurous music through the labyrinth of underground and experimental music. Over three days, the festival will put on a wide range of new music and underground music shows without forgetting the undisputed masters of the genre.<\/span>

Since releasing their first album in 1996,\u00a0<\/span>KSI\u0118\u017bYC<\/strong>\u00a0has been Poland\u2019s best-kept secret. Their music is an update of Slavic folk music in which electronic elements and the spectral nature of the avant-garde are plunged into songs which resound with an intensely profane spiritualism. Ksi\u0119\u017cyc is the perfect antidote to these consumerist and superficial times.” Droning folk music has many immediate functions: the celebration of life; to unravel time before us with its duration; to mourn our Earthly losses. Ksi\u0119\u017cyc have emerged from the wilderness as true masters of the art form”, adds The Quietus.<\/span>

+++\u00a0<\/span>practical information<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
+++\u00a0<\/span>find out more about the band on the KRAAK festival’s website<\/a>

KSI\u0118\u017bYC
<\/strong>Agata HARZ<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0vocals, objects<\/span>
Katarzyna SMOLUK-MOCZYD\u0141OWSKA\u00a0<\/strong>– vocals, keyboards, objects<\/span>
Robert NIZI\u0143SKI<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0clarinet, keyboards, objects\u00a0<\/span>
Lechos\u0142aw POLAK<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0accordion, keyboards, synthesizers<\/span>
Remigiusz MAZUR-HANAJ<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0tapes, hurdy\u00acgurdy, violin\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The album\u00a0Rabbit Eclipse<\/em>\u00a0is the second recording by the group\u00a0Ksi\u0119\u017cyc<\/strong>. The first, eponymous, album came out in 1996… And the moon is still shining.\u00a0
The Penultimate Press had reissued this debut album in 2013, taking the view that it was not the least bit dated: the group enjoyed a resurgence of interest and even began performing again, which helped inspire them to write new songs. These songs were recorded between May and September 2015 in Warsaw, in the „Kr\u00f3likarnia” (The hunting ground), by all of the original members in order to pool their sense of the classical and the experimental, the ancient and the contemporary. The songs have fewer vocal parts and are longer, the tension which is released characterised by its subtlety and sense of melancholy. Rabbit Eclipse is the natural continuation of the first album, yet it heralds a new stage in the group\u2019s evolution. \u00a0
You can find reviews of the album\u00a0Rabbit Eclipse<\/em>\u00a0on the sites of\u00a0The Quietus<\/a>\u00a0(EN),\u00a0Penultimate Press<\/a>\u00a0(EN) and\u00a0Muzyka.onet.pl<\/a>.

Polish-speaking persons can hear one of Ksi\u0119\u017cyc\u2019s musicians, Remigiusz Mazur-Hanaj, talking about his group in an interview on the\u00a0Radio 2<\/a>\u00a0site.<\/p>\n

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0Beursschouwburg<\/strong>\u00a0(rue A. Ortsstraat, 1000 Brussels)
>>> Saturday\u00a026 February\u00a0<\/strong>2016 –\u00a0hour TBC\u00a0<\/em>
<\/strong>>>> Saturday ticket:\u00a0\u20ac30
<\/strong>online box office<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2015, the KRAAK festival hosted an improvisation between the group LOTTO and Konrad SMOLE\u0143SKI >>> more information on this concert on\u00a0our internet site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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