Ethno-jazz

Chłopcy kontra Basia

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Fot. Piotr Kołata

The band’s name translates as "Boys Against Basia" and features wordplay around the double bass (kontrabas). As Basia puts it herself, this is a band that lives in a "modern reality but is fascinated by disappearing sounds".

The band made their debut in April 2010 during prestige Polish Radio Folk Festival "The New Tradition", where at the start they won one of the most important awards on folk stage – second place in the contest. One year later it was first award of Open Stage of Mikołajki Folkowe Festival in Lublin (2011) and at the beginnig of 2012 victory in plebiscit on the best song of world music trend "Battle of Bands" organised by World Music Network. In 2013 band produced album "Oj tak!" and was nominated to Fryderyk Award in debut of the year category. They were also made known to broader audience by taking part in "Must Be the Music" programme (finalist of 3rd edition).

The band is also well-known in theatre milieu due mainly to music composed for E. Marciniak’s performances. For Teatr Śląski they did music and songs for "Morphine" from Sz. Twardoch prose. They were also nominated to Golden Mask Award and were given prize for music presented at Polish Contemporary Play Staging Contest.

They have been inspired by a traditional Polish forms such as mazurek, oberek and kujawiak, but they compose their own music, also mixed it with jazz, trip-hop or rock.