Village Kollektiv

Biography

In Poland there is a very little representation of ‘world beat’ music – the fusion of electronics with traditional live music, the vision where the past meets the future. Village Kollektiv, from Warsaw, are a pioneering live band in this genre and they work with the fruits of their own national tradition.

Village Kollektiv formed in 2002. A project involving members of Polish folk/fusion groups: Warsaw Village Band, Masala and others. Music generated by Village Kollektiv is the first Polish fusion of electronics with live sound of original instruments and traditional vocals. The musicians use melodies originating from the Polish Kurpie region and those collected from the people of the Bulgarian Shop region. They incorporate traditional singing techniques; throat singing from Tuva and the yoik of the Sami people. Original melodies serve as an inspiration for their own creation and instrumental improvisation. The Electronic music is a merger of breakbeat, electro, dub and drum&bass as well as punk rock vitality. After four years the band released their debut album "Motion Rootz Experimental 2006".

In 2010, Village Kollektiv were part of the international project „Unite: Gathering of Strangers” an album produced by Transglobal Underground. Both bands played at ‘Days of Contemporary Arts’ in Bialystok, Poland and performed some tracks together on stage. In October 2010 they released their new album ‘Subvillage Sound’.

Village Kollektiv at the Belfast Mela has been kindly sponsored by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland

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