KAROLINA CICHA Jidyszland / Yiddishland
Description
1. Białystok majn hejm
2. Alt naje geschichtes cz. 2
3. Majn jingele
4. G. . . t
5. Chanuka
6. Ałe
7. Alt naje geschichtes cz. 1
8. Flieg
9. Kiesl gartn
10. Majn rue platz
11. Rebeka
12. Simches tojre
Karolina Cicha - vocal, accordion, piano, sampler
Piotr Domagalski - bass guitar, double bas & baglamas, hammond
Witek Wilk - drums
and:
Róża Ziątek-Czarnota - violin,
James Brennan - choirs
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.
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.'
label: Wydźwięk 2015
cat. no: 4752213
format: CD, digipack