cudne to!  przepiękne w swej oszczędne i powściągliwej formie... a napięcie w długiej nucie zamknięte!  harmonia obezwładnia... i to podniesienie melodii z przełamaniem.  Jestem zauroczony!!! 

Wiwat dance from Wielkopolska (Greater Poland).
An absolute hit of all dance parties.
To be found on our latest album "Knee-deep in Heaven".


LYRICS

You must have known something girl,
I can’t forget about you at all.

I’ve forgotten mother and father,
But I cannot forget you ever.

You must have known something girl,
I can’t forget about you at all.

I’ve forgotten sister and brother,
But I cannot forget you ever.

You must have known something girl,
I can’t forget about you at all.

I’ve forgotten mother and father,
But I cannot forget you ever.

You must have known something girl.



fot. Ronald Rietman

Musiałaś Ty, Dziewczę, Co Umieć/You Must Have Known Something, Girl

Taniec "polski" ze zbiorów Oskara Kolberga.
"Polski" dance from Oskar Kolberg's collection.

Album: "Knee-deep in Heaven"

LYRICS:

King and Queen (after “Kingdom”, a poem by Leopold Staff)

There was a young king and a lovely queen,
Whose kingdom, however, was none.
The king’s last name was Worthyhead
And the queen shared this title with him.
And they both laughed and laughed with joy,
Both the young king and she,
Whose kingdom, however, was none.

Says the king: my dear wife and queen,
I hold the royal orb and sceptre.
The orb is an apple, dropped by this apple-tree,
It fell, so I took it and nobody objected.
And by this sceptre shall you be protected,
To me, my dear, it will offer support,
As it is a beggar’s staff that I hold.

They wandered far, this king and queen,
Whose kingdom, however, was none.
The king’s last name was Worthyhead
And the queen shared this title with him.
And they both laughed and laughed with joy,
Both the young king and she,
Whose kingdom, however, was none.


fot. Julia Dunin
http://www.juliadunin.com/


Król i Królowa/King and Queen

From the "Knee-deep in Heaven" album.
(after “Christ”, a poem by Julian Tuwim)


I do not complain, Father; I do not complain, My Lord,
That you’ve  given my heart this devastating love.

I do not complain, Father, that I must walk alone,
That I feel so weary upon this thorny road.

I pass the huts with the news: “It’s coming, by heaven’s grace”.
And people say: “Farewell…” And give me a piece of bread.

How can they find my words so hard to understand?
They really cannot see Your Holy Kingdom’s Kingdom is near.
(…)

The birds have little nests, there’s shelter for every bug,
But only Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.

But that is no complaint, O Lord, just use your Mighty Will,
To help those quiet people to understand what I bring.


Mazurek Skarga / Mazurek Complaint

Janusz Prusinowski - śpiew, lira korbowa.

Nagranie Program Drugi Polskiego Radia.

Gołębica // Janusz Prusinowski

Single from the new album of Janusz Prusinowski Kompania, to be released 15.12.2018.

Premiere concert: Folkowo Bemowo, Warsaw: https://www.facebook.com/events/193104194950494/

fot. A. Rózga

Deszczowy / Rainy - Pre-release / Premiere 15.12.2018

Gdzie jest ta miłość / Where Is This Love - Pre-release / Premiere 15.12.2018

Pawelczyk / Oberek from Stanisław Pawelczyk - Pre-release / Premiere 15.12.2018

Kto jestem / Who I Am - Pre-release / Premiere 15.12.2018

Mój Boże kochany _ My Dear God

Oberek z repertuaru skrzypka Józefa Ciastka (1920- 2012) z Czermna na Mazowszu Płockim.
Mateusz Niwiński - skrzypce I, śpiew
Iga Wasilewska - skrzypce II
Jacek Mielcarek - sopran sax
Agnieszka Niwińska - baraban
Jakub Mielcarek - basetla

Czerminianka

Serce

Janusz Prusinowski Kompania (formerly: Janusz Prusinowski Trio) is a group of musicians who follow in traditions of village masters they have learned from: Jan Lewandowski, Kazimierz Meto, Józef Zaraś, Piotr and Jan Gaca, Tadeusz Kubiak and many others – but they are also an avant-garde band with their own characteristic sound and language of improvisation. They combine music with dance and the archaic with the modern.

The Kompania’s unique style is the result of their attempt to find new ways of interpreting the most important elements of village music from central Poland. It brings together mazurkas – sung, played, danced to, improvised live – and modern man. What new quality can be given to archaic and seemingly simple melodies and rhythms without resorting to trendy sample mixing? It turns out that traditional music of Polish villages can be a reference point for a variety of genres: reminiscent of Chopin in its melodic pattern and the use of rubato, sharing a love of improvisation with blues and jazz, evocative of contemporary music in its tone, and possessing the expressiveness of rock music.

Between 2008 and 2012 the band performed in most of European countries, Asia, Canada, the USA (including Carnegie Hall and Chicago Symphony Center) – and of course Poland. Besides playing concerts with traditional Polish music the band prepared a special programme of performances “The village roots of Frédéric Chopin’s music” with pianist Janusz Olejniczak. In 2012 Kompania begun a unique project "Kujawy” with three masters of Polish music: Tadeusz Kubiak, Tomasz Stańko, Janusz Olejniczak, and a group of singers led by Ewa Grochowska.The group also performed with Michał Urbaniak, Artur Dutkiewicz and Alim Qasimov. Apart of concerts, Kompania’s music can be heard at the parties of village and urban Dance Clubs or theatrical performances at the Polish National Theatre and the Polish Radio Theatre. They also run musical and dance workshops. In 2008 the band released “Mazurkas”, an album which received rave reviews. This was followed in 2010 by their second album “Heart”. 

In October 2012 Janusz Prusinowski Kompania performed at the prestigious world music fair – WOMEX 2012 in Thessaloniki. In 2013 they spent a full month in USA with close to 30 concerts, and having seduced American audience with mazurek, they reached for Germany, France, Benelux, Great Britain, Croatia and a couple of other countries, everywhere leaving dedicated lovers of wild Polish melodies behind. They’ve also returned to Womex (Cardiff 2013) with the „Wild Music of the Heart of Poland” project, created to present Polish traditional music to the international audience. In 2014 Kompania is involved in various events of Oskar Kolberg’s Year. Currently promoting also their new album, named - and putting the listener - "Knee-deep in Heaven”. 

At present the band members include:

Janusz Prusinowski – fiddle, voice, dulcimer, Polish accordion 
Piotr Piszczatowski – baraban drum, frame drum
Michał Żak – wooden flutes, shawm, clarinet
Piotr Zgorzelski – folk bass, dancing
Szczepan Pospieszalski – trumpet
 

"I learned my first kujawiak from my father. After that it was blues and the electric guitar, and then in an Andrzej Bieńkowski film I heard the Józef Kędzierski band. It was a revelation: the authenticity, intensity and ease that I had been looking for throughout the world existed right here, beside me – in my own language and the musical phrases belonging to it. I started visiting village musicians and became fascinated with mazureks, getting to know a whole world around them. It turned out that almost every musician puts his fingers in different places, which means playing different sounds, in different scales. Of course there are lines and schools of musicians, but human life is long enough for a unique style to evolve, especially if someone plays at three weddings per week".
Janusz Prusinowski

Deszczowy / Rainy - Pre-release / Premiere 15.12.2018

Prusinowski Kompania

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