Memento Mori Dance Club
An experimental project straddling the border between the world of traditional music, early music, and the individual musical experience of the band members, exploring the connections between Polish traditional religious singing and the dance music of the past centuries.
The phrases of devotional songs, which until recently have still been sung in the villages of lowland Poland, echo with polonaises and mazurkas which once accompanied dances and later served as musical base for religious texts by poets of varying fame. The Memento Mori Dance Club project explores contexts and circumstances in which these two seemingly contradictory layers of instrumental dance music and contemplative religious texts can coexist.
Members:
Maciej Żurek – violin, singing, artistic director
Antek Hasso-Agopsowicz – violin, singing
Jacek Muża – tuba, soprano saxophone, kaval, singing
Wolfgang Niklaus – oud, cobza, violin
Serhij Petryczenko – double bass, singing
Piotr Piszczatowski – reed organ, violin, singing,
Marek Szwajkowski – baraban, frame drum, singing
Witek Wojciechowski – violin, singing
