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Jad Wio is a pretty obscure french band, that could be described with terms like cabaret and fetish. The band consists of Denis Bortek doing the lead vocals and Kbye pulling the guitar strings. Denis Bortek is the frontman of Jad Wio and one of the main attractions of the band as he crossdresses on stage like a burlesque singstar. Jad Wio's songtexts are alternately in french or english, but especially the french tends to be tongue-in-cheek and kinky. Most (if not all) of the lyrics are wordplays and puns on almost everything that is prohibited or deviant. Ranging from...

The Żywiołak project is the non-accidental effect of a meeting of two friends of music styles defined as heavyfolk, biometal, folkmetal, or hardfolk... In their home-bands, both have gone through fascination of Slavic and Celtic music as well as widely defined rock and roll. Robert Jaworski - the founder of Turek-Łódź based band ich troLe - which has shaken the Polish folk scene within just a year since it`s foundation. He is fascinated with medieval music, old instruments, good rock n’roll and folk art. He tried, not very effectively to enliven his ideas for interpretation of Slavic music by playing...

Kombajn Do Zbierania Kur Po Wioskach (which indeed means „the harvester for collecting hens in the countryside”) is a young, polish rock band. It has 5 members: the charismatic vocalist - Marcin Zagański, Tomasz Brażewicz - Dosiółko, an enthusiastic guitarist, Paweł Koprowski - guitarist (him and Marcin started the band Materac: many of Materac's songs end up as KDZKPW's songs), Michał Dziekan - bassist and Mario Bielski - a drummer. Both Marcin and Tomasz started the band in 2001. Short after, they gained attention at various festivals and radio stations. Before the first album was recorded, KDZKPW had been already...

19 WIOSEN – it means just „nineteen springs”... This project was born in 1989 in Lodz, central Poland. It is almost one million habitants city, called “polish Manchester” because of XIX century factrories architecture, fallen industry and full of unemployment and off course... strong tradition of underground and specific alternative music. This strange town with jewish, russian and german roots is probably one of the biggest film and cinema centers in the world. Very important town about the history of polish Jews and the Holocaust. Before strong industrial center and proud of socialist Poland, now full of beggar families living...