Album
‘Yiddishland’ consists of songs composed by Karolina Cicha and Piotr
Domagalski to the texts written by Jewish poets from Podlaskie
region: Chaim Siemiatycki, Rabbi Elizer Szulman of Tykocin or
Moris Rosenfeld from Sejny. Other songs are the testimonies of the
places: “Bialystok main heim” and other traditional Jewish songs
connected with this region, as well as a song, written in
archaic Yiddish, by the XVIth century scholar Rivka Tiktiner, whoa
father was raised in Tykocin. Some of this texts have never seen
the light of day – have never left the archives.
Piotr Domagalski –
bass guitar, double bass, gimbri
Witek Wilk
– drums
Miron
Zajfert, Artistic Director of New Jewish Music Festival in Warsaw:
‘Karolina
Cicha is a charismatic singer and a composer endowed with
extraordinary sensibility to poetic phrase. “Greetings from
Yiddishland” (…) is born out of her fascination with musical
tradition and brings what is the most precious in it: an element of
truth and the roots’ energy. She combines it, in an
uncompromising way, with the innovative sound of the instruments and
the emotional, filled with passion singing.’
The
album was co-financed by the Marshal Office of the Podlaskie
Voivodship. Partners of the album are:
Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN and Warsaw Singer Festival
and New Jewish Music Festival in Warsaw.
