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Warsaw Village Band

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Not taking the obvious paths down which success can sometimes seduce a band, it's a bold album, elbowing new space for roots music in a Poland that is forging ahead in the New Europe and just might, unlike so many European countries, embrace rather than ignore the riches it already possesses in its traditional music. What makes WVB a 'world music band' is that it takes Polish music to the world and in so doing intensifies it."
Following a one-year "maternity/paternity leave", WARSAW VILLAGE BAND is returning to the world of CDs and concert stages with two new albums. The first to appear was the remix CD "Upmixing". In response to countless requests from the world's DJs, this CD was produced with the consent of the musicians. The band's only condition was that it should be
a Reggae remix album on the basis of their last studio CD "Uprooting". This CD climbed to fifth place on the European and first place on the German world-music charts, The new studio album "Infinity", released November 2008 went to Top 5 World Music Charts Europe, to Top 5 of Polish Pop Charts.

A Brief History of the Band
The "WVB" made its first major spectacular performance in 1999 at the Sopot Festival on a stage it shared with world stars. JARO producer Ulrich Balss, who was represented at the festival with several artists, discovered this young band with the fourteen-year-old Maja Kleszcz on the cello. It was not until in the spring of 2003, however, that the second CD "People's Spring" was released by JARO. That's when the ensemble began to conquer the world - concerts in places as far-flung as Alaska, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal, Moscow and Paris reaped exuberant reviews.
Meanwhile they're a symbol of young, intelligent Eastern European music which combines traditions with modern elements and is capable of eliciting enthusiastic responses from rock audiences and traditionalists alike. In London they were even referred to, among other things, as the Polish Pogues. Their music has established itself in Europe and the world!
In logical conclusion, the band received the BBC Radio Award 2004 and the Polish Grammy - the "Frederic Award". These distinctions were followed by composition commissions for video games and movie sound tracks, theatre productions and concerts all over the world. The British BBC honoured the band with a sixty-minute portrait which has since been broadcast in several European countries. Their CDs were licensed in America and Japan, and the WARSAW VILLAGE BAND is meanwhile the most successful Eastern European ensemble outside the mainstream.
(Biography supplied by artist management 2010)
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