Daj Ognia at Strefa

Archaic instruments, old songs, no-longer-so traditional rhythms, regressive dark folk, longing for an imaginary village built from imaginings and romantic phantasms that have grown up somewhere between Poland and Scandinavia – this is how the members of the Daj Ognia band describe their music. In their rich instrumentation, there is room for Scandinavian string lyres, bagpipes, Middle Eastern cymbals and a variety of percussions. As they emphasise, they ‘delight in heavy themes and difficult sounds, and their repertoire is invariably intended for the feet and reveries of people living under thatched roofs and asbestos tiles’. Thanks to them, the evening at the Strefa Nowa club, Kraków’s most folky address, will become an energetic and, at the same time, trance-like encounter with the “music of an imaginary village”.