Mazowsze Pólnocne, po Michale Rubinie, ze zbioru Tadeusz Kiszczaka. Nagranie 2002, Studio Rogalów.
Remek Hanaj - skrzypce, Katarzyna Andrzejowska - wtór, Daniel de Latour - bas.

Pies Szczeka - Chodzony od Gruduska / North Masovia

Maria Siwiec - an outstanding singer from Gałki Rusinowskie who has memorised hundreds of secular and religious songs and special dance songs, from which musicians develop melodies and the whole rich content of their mazureks. She belongs to the most famous vocal group from the Radomskie region. She is one of our Great Teachers.

*Guest performance on Janusz Prusinowski Trio (now Kompania) album "Knee-Deep in Heaven".


Mazurek about Love

Oh, beloved God, are you there in heaven,
Do these pleas of mine ever reach you there?

Down the village road walked a girl with a prayer
That she’d finally meet some boy, even one that’s lame.

Shine, my little moon, for my star has faded,
And that dark night found me at my girl’s place.

The night was so dark, in the darkness I got caught.
What a foolish girl I am, couldn’t wait till daylight.

Oh, my life’s so hard, I didn’t sow the land,
So the girl I love shouldn’t work too hard.

Oh, my love, my love, I wish you never got me,
For this wretched love makes my eyes still weep.

The moon shines for you, and the stars shine for me,
For you’re only loved by one, but everyone loves me.

In the dark hall, on a ladder, a black cockerel perched,
I would kiss your lips if they remained sealed.

I would kiss your lips if they remained sealed,
Let it be our little secret, and let no one know it.

Oh, I have no money, but what is money for?
I can’t take it up to heaven, I don’t need it there.

Oh, I do and I don’t, I can’t have what I want,
But I’ll have what I want when Johnny comes home.

Oh, my heart splits in two, in two halves it breaks,.
One half cries in sorrow, but the other is joyous. 

Oh, so sad is my heart, but it’s also proud.
Oh, I never could forget who my first love was.
Oh, da dana…


Maria Siwiec & Prusinowski Kompania - Mazurek o miłości/Mazurek about Love

Сізы арол

Ой там, на ляду, да шчэ на Ярдані. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Там сізы арол да купаецца. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Да купаецца, вумываецца. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Маладзец Іванька руж'ё заріжае. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Руж'ё й заріжае, ў орліка страляе. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
А той орлік кажэ: “Не страляй мяне. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Не страляй мене, спагадай на мяне. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
А як будзеш жа ты да жаніціся. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Дай будзе на цябе да тры пагадонькі. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Первая пагода да сінія хмары. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Другая пагода да буйныя ветры. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Трэцяя пагода да сільныя дожджы. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Укрою цябе сваімі крыламі. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!
Сваімі крыламі, сізымі перамі”. Шчэдры вечар, добры вечар!

Песня запісаная ад перасяленцаў у с. Андрэеўка, Саргацкі раён Омскай вобласці

03 Сізы Арол

Recording of my last performance in Ukraine, at Lviv Municipal Art Centre, on the new Ukrainian music evening together with impressive Evelina Stebelska back in October 2022.

Z repertuaru Józefa Kędzierskiego ze Rdzuchowa.

Antek Hasso-Agopsowicz: skrzypce
Witek Wojciechowski: bębenek obręczowy
Marta Gotfryd: basy

Z Sadu

Traditional wedding song from Kielce region.
Fot. Stepan Rudik

From the album Wesele! by Wodzirej label.

Sędkowian

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

Melodie tradycyjne z repertuaru Kapeli Sowów z Piątkowej.
Mateusz Niwiński - skrzypce I, śpiew
Iga Wasilewska - skrzypce II
Jacek Mielcarek - klarnet, śpiew
Agnieszka Niwińska - baraban
Jakub Mielcarek - kontrabas

Sowy

Дом

Słowa i muzyka, śpiew, Kaja Prusinowska
Aranżacja, oraz instrumenty, Janusz Prusinowski

Chryzantemy Babci Zosi, 28.10.2020.

Chryzantemy złoty czar, chryzantemy dar
Chryzantemy złoty czar, chryzantemy dar

W tej bielutkiej filiżance były Babci bajki
Zaparzanie jak herbata
Osłodzone miodem

Chryzantemy...

Były zioła pozbierane na górskiej polanie
Konfitury z cierpkiej pigwy
I z jabłuszek rajskich 

Chryzantemy...

Każde to maleńkie jabłko niosło opowieści
O jej Mamie i Siostrzyczkach trudno je pomieścić

Chryzantemy złoty dar, chryzantemy czar
Kilka płatków do herbaty 
Złotych świateł pełna dal.

Chryzantemy Babci Zosi

Here's the mysterious opening track from the upcoming 8 track, 45rpm 12" vinyl release from Russian artist, Non Dolet...Slavic beauty from the hinterlands...! Available in April, 2021...

Non Dolet  "V"  Flame

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

Maria Siwiec & Prusinowski Kompania - Mazurek o miłości/Mazurek about Love

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