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18 Dec, 2009

Dear Santa….

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast| famous Poles

I just want one CD for Christmas. I know it’s almost a year old, but I’ve only just been told about it. (Yeah, thanks, ‘friends’ for keeping me up to date). And I instantly fell in love with it.
Mieczyslaw Fogg was a very famous Polish crooner, whose career spanned half a century. He first started [...]

This one is for music lovers planning a trip to Warsaw.
To mark the bicentennial of Frederic Chopin’s birth (yes, he was Polish), the Polish capital has published a Chopin audio city guide.
Available in eight languages, the guide will take tourists to some key locations related to the great pianist.
You can download the audio guide from [...]

19 Oct, 2009

Basia is back

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast

Matt Bianco fans have a reason to be cheerful this autumn. Basia, whose voice is familiar to anyone who in the early 1980s danced to Whose Side Are You On?, is back with a new album. (Oh, ok, the album was released a few months ago, but I only just listened to it for the [...]

10 Aug, 2009

Fresh Polish music – Gaba Kulka

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast

So Madonna’s first Polish gig this week in Warsaw seems to be the biggest musical event of the summer (in the pop category at least – Britney’s cancelled, and last week’s U2 gig in Chorzow probably fell into a totally different category altogether). Although when I say ‘the biggest I actually mean the most controversial [...]

11 Apr, 2009

Polish music: Justyna Steczkowska

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast

I haven’t posted any music for a while, but earlier today came across an artist I used to like some time ago, Justyna Steczkowska.
I haven’t heard her latest music, but if the newest video is an indication of her current musical preferences, I don’t think I’m interested.
Her older stuff is much more interesting. Justyna took [...]

02 Mar, 2009

Spotify – now with some Polish music

Posted by: Michał In: cultural beast| links

If you, like me, have become addicted to Spotify, the brilliant new music service which allows you to create and share free collaborative playlists, you may enjoy this.
The link below is the Polski Blog’s ‘Best of Polish Music’ playlist (thanks Kai for the idea) which you can open (using Spotify, of course), listen to and [...]


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