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The Irish Connection group – Dowspuda 2002 Celtic Festival

I played with a Polish band called The Irish Connection for five years. Below are some recordings from one of the festivals in Poland: Dowspuda 2002 (I play mostly in the background, sometimes solo).

Dowspuda ([dɔfsˈpuda]; Lithuanian: Dauspuda[1]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raczki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[2] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) south-east of Raczki, 15 km (9 mi) south-west of Suwałki, and 99 km (62 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok. […] Around 1815–1821, Ludwik Michał Pac invited about 500 people from Scotland to the village, who were to teach the locals modern agriculture and various other crafts. The Scots founded a settlement called Szkocja and separate folwarks: Covenlock, New York (today Pruska Wielka), Longwood (Ludwinowo), Linton, Berwick (Korytki) and Bromfield (Józefowo). The Scots taught the local population how to switch from three-field system to crop rotation, encouraged the cultivation of potatoes and keeping them in mounds, as well as horse and sheep breeding. In 1816, under the supervision of Scottish engineers, various facilities began to be built: horse mill, water wheel, seed drill, plows, threshers, sifters for flour and grits. A brewery, vodka distillery, tannery, starch factory, and oil press were also opened. It was the third such oil press in the whole country (previously there was only one in Zwierzyniec, owned by Stanisław Zamoyski, and another in Antoni Trębicki’s estate in Łomno). After the departure of Ludwik Pac, a large part of the Scots who had come here also left, but even today there are some Scottish descendants in the village. In 1996-2004 and in 2007, the Celtic culture festival Dowspuda was held in the palace ruins. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowspuda)

The Irish Connection were Scottish ballads, then there were Meltrad punk Celtic songs. Unfortunately, the first group fell apart and professional matters didn’t allow me to play with Meltrad, with whom I still sometimes play (for which I thank them very much, but I don’t have any recordings with them).

The Kesh Jig

Dirty Old Town

Spancil Hill

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Selected recordings from Celtic Music Festival Dowspuda 2002, recordings straight from the console so their quality is not the best?

Etno ambient

After I finished working with the band The Irish Connection, I started playing independently in small music clubs in Warsaw. It was improvised ad-hoc music.

Wypieki Kultury Club – November 2013

Wypieki Kultury Club – August 2013

PracoVnia Club – December 2010

I was a regular at this club between 2006 and 2011, and for a period my Sunday concerts were held here every month; here is one of them, the only one recorded in its entirety (time: 90 minutes):

PraCoVnia Club 2006 – music background for poems Sen Proroka

Monika Gąsiorek poems, Witt Wilczyński recitation

Diuna Club Warszawa 2004 – flutes and synthesizer

These are recordings from typical for me improvised club concerts played with invited guests. Among them were: Maciek Cierlinski ([[hurdy-gurdy]]), India Czajkowska (vocals, voices), Miriam Walewska ([[viola]], voices), Wojtek Mazurkiewicz ([[tabla]]).

Improvisations

A few songs that didn't catch on anywhere? ;)

PraCoVnia Club 2006 – flutes and sampler

Videos this time, unfortunately to download to disk and play (they are large files).

Electronic – (1998 – 2003) – synthesizer

In the years 1998-2003 the songs were created at home with the help of the keyboard and synthesizer, then “to drawer”. They were created under the influence of many different emotions (which is easy to recognize ;)). I decided to “dig them out” because I thought they should see the light of day and each of us has our own emotions and can easily match them. They are all extremely different but they all have one thing in common: each has a constant, rhythmic, more or less trance background and one, main, improvised melody line. So you can listen to it in a completely random way from case to case and every track is different.

1998/1999

1999/2000

2000/2001

2001/2002

2002/2003

(all songs to be downloaded together as one ZIP archive ZIP 250MB)

Ethnotrans – music and pictures from Scotland

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