The new album concept is built around one of the oldest vocal traditions - lullabies.
We want to sing FOR the World (the nature and people) to bring peace, to ease pain, to calm, to heal, to strengthen. Just like mother singing lullabies to her child passes serenity, love, knowledge and protection spells. In this way we want to continue our social commitment and indifference to the world in which we live.
Our album will also feature guests - female artists with different cultural roots. Who they are:
Kurbasy is a vocal duo from Ukraine. They explore of Ukraine’s rich trove of calendar song cycles, lullabies, and legends, conjure the natural world, beliefs, and rituals, tracing contemporary connections to an archaic past.
Emma Bonnici is an actor, singer and teacher, founder of Singing as a life practice, based in UK but with Indian roots. The seeds of the work she is doing as an artist are sown in the soil of Grotowski inspired polish physical theatre and its approaches towards integrity of performance, polyphonic music and the ancient power and stories of music rooted in people, landscape and ancient traditions.
Tara Fatehi Irani is an artist, writer and performer born in Teheran, based in London. Her work is at the intersection of the sociopolitical and the poetic and is primarily concerned with the ephemeral interactions between memories, words, bodies and sites.
This summer, together with Vincent Moon, we traveled through images and sounds and plunged into the forest. We were led by lush greenery and the sounds of the stream. Not a coincidental place - near the forest studio, where we recorded a few songs from our first album "Wiano" and the album "Siostry Rzeki".
The songs Siemienica and Kobierzec are an announcement of "Lullabies for the world", the next album of our trio.
SIEMIENICA (title is the name of the dance)
A song inspired by traditional Polish dance, in which girls sing that they will only exchange their maiden wreath for an equally valuable thing. Like in many traditions, wreath is a symbol of female virginity, freedom and independence. In the song we mention values such as protected nature, security and peace.
KOBIERZEC (Rug)
Referring to the form of a fairy tale in which the elders share their wisdom, we sing a song of the inner strengths. As we believe, new times need new fairy tales.
SIEMIENICA
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
starry sky for a wreath
no stars can be seen, there is no wreath
let's dance Siemieniec
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
river meanders for a wreath
neither meanders nor wreath
let's dance Siemieniec
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
these wild swamplands for a wreath
there is no swamplands, there is no wreath
let's dance Siemieniec
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
this sea breeze for a wreath
there is neither a breeze nor a wreath
let's dance Siemieniec
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
Clear lakes for a wreath
no clean lakes, no wreath
let's dance Siemieniec
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
sweet rain for a wreath
the rain is sour, the wreath is bitter
let's dance Siemieniec
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
let's leave the trees for a wreath
trees and forests disappear
let's dance till we have time
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
careless breath for a wreath
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
So our houses can be safe
Siemieniec, oh world, Siemieniec
hospitality and generosity for a wreath
KOBIERZEC
she sat quietly under the silver night
where the fern's shadow is
and let her golden hair down
to the feet to the grass far far away
and three spinners came to her
and pulled out the flax
and they spun threads and weaved lots
and so sang to her
remember daughter remember blue
the taste of your young dreams
and the dampness of the earth under bare feet
and how the poppy blooms
remember dew and silver puddles
remember the sunshine
and how joy awakens lightly
and illuminates the world
remember daughter, remember smart
how the wind dances with the forest
though the strand will tangle, it is your strength
a beautiful pattern will weave
Lullabies For The World are made of beautiful encounters.
We weave a song, we chase away evil, we call for peace.
This is a video from our rehearsal with KURBASY, captured just before we enter to the recording studio.