Sylwia Świątkowska - violin, suka, vocals Ewa Wałecka - violin, hurdy gurdy, vocals Piotr Gliński - big drums, percussions Paweł Mazurczak - double bass Maciej Szajkowski - frame drum, percussions Mariusz Dziurawiec - live dub mix Warsaw Village Band (Polish: Kapela ze wsi Warszawa) is a band from Warsaw, Poland, that plays traditional Polish folk music tunes combined with modern elements.
Warsaw Village Band was conceived as a response to this trend that would explore Poland's musical traditions and make them relevant to its new capitalist economy.
[4] To this end, in Wykorzenienie (Uprooting), the band traveled throughout Poland to find and record older musicians who still played almost-forgotten styles of music, thereafter incorporating those melodies into new songs and expounding upon them.
The band use instruments rarely heard in modern music: frame drums, the hurdy-gurdy and the suka, a Polish folk fiddle from the 17th century stopped with the fingernails rather than the fingers, similar to the Bulgarian gadulka, the sarangi, or the rebec.
The suka was practically unknown to the Polish people until member Sylwia Świątkowska began to play it in the band's concerts, and, later, on their albums.