Punk folk

Hańba!

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Fot. Kamil Piotrowski

In 1931 in the Cracovian quarter of Podgórze a new street band came into being. Far from ordinary, it was a group of defiant musicians who decided to use their song to denounce the corruption, violence and iniquity of interwar Poland, a reality far more complicated than one could imagine today.

The Rebellious Street Band Hańba! ("Disgrace") is a musical and literary fiction, designed to convince the audience that punk-rock was not born in the noisy seventies on the British Isles, but goes way back to the Second Polish Republic, a period marked by extraordinary cultural, artistic and economic growth, but also systematic destruction of democracy, the authoritarian rule of Sanation and its imperialist impulses. With the support of street instruments (banjo, drums, accordion, tuba) and a bunch of interwar poets (Tuwim, Brzechwa, Broniewski), four Cracovian performers impersonate imaginary characters and combine musical inspirations (punk, folk, klezmer) to tell their own tale about the most poetic period in the history of Poland.

Their debut long-play album released in a CD and a vinyl format on 7th of February 2016 (or 1936, as they would say) was produced by a legendary Polish independent record label Antena Krzyku in cooperation with Karoryfer Lecolds. In summer 2017 "Hańba!" comes back with another full studio album "Będą bić!" ("Beatings are coming!") which sends the listeners to Poland in 1937 and the tense atmosphere of those times.

During the last three years Hańba! has played at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad, like Euroradio Folk Festival 2015, Off- Festival 2015, Pohoda Festival 2016, Primavera Festival 2017, Open'er Festival 2017, SXSW 2017, Colours of Ostrava 2017, Spring Break Festival 2017. Hańba! toured throughout United States, Spain, Czechia and Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands.