Aktualności
Centrum Trzech Kultur (Center of Three Cultures) in Suchowola
15 December 2018, 7pm
Free addmission - seats limited
Tickets: at the entrance or phone booking
The "One-Many" album by Katarzyna Cicha available for purchase after the concert
‘One – Many’ is a combination of a diverse mosaic into one consistent program, where all the Religions of the Book reverberate in unison, as if speaking with one voice. The music, once ecstatic, sometimes contemplative, and not so rarely nearing the boundaries of a ritual or rite, is complemented with sacred languages (among others Old Church Slavonic, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Polish). Choosing the lyrics they were focused on the most affirmative elements of the particular religions: forms of praising, worshipping, various forms of thankgiving or blessing. Music is a language of epiphany, it facilitates communication over the doctrinal barriers.
Karolina Cicha once again focused on a single region of Poland – Podlasie. For centuries, this has been a place where various religious traditions coexist. It is these traditions that Cicha used to source, select and work out the most joyous and brightest songs. Next to the Catholic treasures of religious music, like the 18th century “Kiedy ranne wstają zorze” (When It’s About to Dawn), you will hear traditional praise and worship songs that come from other traditions of the Religions of the Book (e.g. the old ceremonial song from Irmologion Supraski from the 16th century, The Liturgy of Saint Basil, an Orthodox song, a 13th century Sufi poem by Rumi or a 16th century Hebrew song by Elazar Azikri, a mystic).
KAROLINA CICHA – singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, One-woman-orchestra. She is fascinated with the traditional music of the ethnic minorities of the north-eastern Poland. Karolina’s specialty is performing with a few musical instruments at the same time: she sings, plays the accordion and keyboard, while her feet are busy playing the drums. In 2015, she was was in Official Selection of WOMEX, the biggest World Music festival worldwide. Playing her music, she has visited a dozen or so festivals held in Europe, Asia and America.
Her career started with solo concerts. In 2009 shestarted a band and that’s when her adventure with rock music began. First, she recorded two tracks for “GAJCY” – an album of musical rock interpretations of the poems of Tadeusz Gajcy (published by Warsaw Uprising Museum).
Since then she has published many albums: “DO LUDOŻERCÓW” (with lyrics of Tadeusz Rożewicz) and “WAWA2010.PL”, a collection of songs about Warsaw, where she sang duets with stars of the polish alternative scene. “MIĘKKIE MASZYNY” was the third album in her discography – and the first to include some of her own lyrics. In 2013 together with Bart Pałyga she published ‘9 Languages’ album with the traditional songs in languages spoken by people living in North-east of Poland. The same year artists won GRAND PRIX and AUDIENCE PRIZE on ‘New Tradition’ – Polish Radio Folk Festival organized by Polish Radio.
