To celebrate the end of the Kolberg Year, the Masovian Cultural Institute [Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury] published a CD, Z Kolbergiem po Afryce I Azji. Multi Culti Orkiestra Marii Pomianowskiej. Make music not war. This album contains materials gathered by the multi-instrumentalist Maria Pomianowska during her tours of Africa and Asia between 2011 and 2014. This project linked musicians from Algeria, China, Egypt, Korea, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, Senegal and Tunisia in performances that highlighted links and similarities in the folk traditions spanning three continents.
A few samples of the 12 tracks on this CD are available for listening and downloading on the Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury website: www.mik.waw.pl. They include Kolberg’s tunes from his volume of folk melodies from the Radom area combined with Arabic music from Lebanon. Other tracks on the website include the fusion of the famous tune Oj Chmielu with the Algerian melody Marheba, and examples of polka and oberek from the Sandomierz region juxtaposed with Korean music in triple meter.
Although this recording is not for sale, copies of it can be obtained from the offices of Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury at 12 Electoralna Street in Warsaw. Music presented on this recording will also be featured in a July 2015 concert in a historic wooden church in Mariańskie Porzecze, about 50 miles south of Warsaw.
[Source: mik.waw.pl]