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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5462 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 25 of 34 09 March 2011 at 7:26am | IP Logged | ||
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If you're looking for Polish hip hop I wholeheartily recommend K.A.S.T.A.; you might also like DonGuralEsko, who is part of K.A.S.T.A. but also has a solo career.
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5557 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 26 of 34 09 March 2011 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
Actually I'm not usually a hip hop fan, but Fisz is just quality music full stop. Seems to be an area of music where the Poles really shine in. You wouldn't happen to know of some interesting Polish bands would you? Or perhaps some nice singer/songwriter type stuff? - in the vein of say Neil Young, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Thom Yorke etc? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Goracykabanos Newbie Poland Joined 4970 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 27 of 34 10 April 2011 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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You guys should listen to Gosia Andrzejewicz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrA7kZmbtcE)
Lyrics are neither difficult to understand, nor very ambitious (Oh baby baby, I love you) but I like the melody very much. It's worth listening, just for fun ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5169 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 28 of 34 11 April 2011 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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My club commissioner (sexy meganekko)likes "Czeslaw Spiewa" it's some alternative.
I would also reccomend Ewa Farna, nice songs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Miegamice Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie Latvia Joined 4977 days ago 32 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latvian*, English, German, Danish Studies: Norwegian, Swedish | Message 29 of 34 16 April 2011 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love Czerwone Gitary and Seweryn Krajewski most.
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| Perdita Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 4968 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: German, Spanish | Message 30 of 34 26 April 2011 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would also recommend Myslovitz, it's one of my favourite Polish bands. Nowadays I
don't listen to much music in my native Polish, I mainly listen to German music as I use music as "language learning tool," but I still come back to Myslovitz. They have released an album with their best songs in English, so you can listen to a given song in Polish and then listen to its English version. The translations are of course not word-for-word, but rather poetic ones. There is even an MA thesis about Myslovitz's lyrics :) My favourite music genre is "poezja śpiewana." I don't think there is an equivalent to it in other countries. Literally translated it means "sung poetry." From what I know, it's a typically Polish phenomenon. It's basically very soft music, and the text of the song (lyrics) plays the most important role. "Poezja śpiewana" is all about lyrics. Sometimes music is written to the texts of poems by famous Polish poets, and then it's sung, sometimes the singers write the lyrics themselves but the emphasis on the words and their meaning is common to all songs in this genre.Maybe it could be compared to the singer-songwriter genre, but I'm not sure whether lyrics are as important in this genre as in "poezja śpiewana." My favourite artist is Marek Grechuta, you could also try some songs by Czesław Niemen. He was a really talented singer with a wonderful voice. I think he would have been a superstar if he had sung in English :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Haukilahti Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4955 days ago 94 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Polish | Message 31 of 34 26 April 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not a lover of punk or such rock at all, but I was really impressed by an English/Polish documentary I saw about music in Poland from the Sixties till the Eighties, during the Communism, before and after Solidarność. Singers and bands had something to sing about, for listeners it meant hope, radio deejays did their best to play such music on air and to even make it easy to record whole albums from radio.
Concerts and festivals were a very important gathering place, where you could find people with similar ideas than you and listen to alternative versions of the songs. The secret police liked those places as well, as testified by (ridiculous by today's standards) reports on typical concert goers. The documentary started with the historic Rolling Stones concert in 1967 and the aforementioned Czesław Niemen, and continued with the Seventies and Eighties punk rock and bands such as Brygada Kryzys or Maanam with singer Kora. I don't know if the documentary is easily available, but I warmly suggest a musical trip into that time in Poland. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4815 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 32 of 34 16 September 2011 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||
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some of my favorite polish songs :
Anna Prucnal : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKza0ZI-ikY Brodka : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ycOABMpIyE Ewa Demarczyk : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7AxGjN8fNQ Goya : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9bRCy5p5wQ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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