Kroke (band)

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Kroke
Tomasz Lato (left) and Tomasz Kukurba at a concert in Mieres / Spain in 2009
Tomasz Lato (left) and Tomasz Kukurba at a concert in Mieres / Spain in 2009
General information
Genre (s) World music
founding 1992
Website http://kroke.com.pl/start.html/

Kroke ( Yiddish for Krakow ) is a Polish world music band.

history

The three long-time friends and graduates of the Cracow Music Academy Tomasz Lato, Tomasz Kukurba and Jerzy Bawoł founded the group in Cracow in 1992. The group performs internationally, mostly within Europe, and works on album productions and concerts with various guest musicians.

The first album Trio - Klezmer Acoustic Music from 1996 still showed the original intention to be recognized as a contemporary Klezmer band . Over the years, collaborations and other album releases, the fundamental openness of the band towards European jazz ( Seventh Trip 2007), classical music ( Feelharmony , 2012) and Balkan folk rhythms in addition to the klezmer roots came to fruition. Although a pure instrumental band without vocalists, singers were brought in from time to time, like Edyta Geppert for the production Śpiewam życie - I Sing Life from 2007. For the tenth album called Ten from 2014, the band won the Polish music award Fryderyk Nominated in 2015.

occupation

On the album The Sounds Of The Vanishing World , Kroke worked with Dariusz Grela in 1999 (vocals, drum programming, sampling), who in turn was involved in the production of the album Ten (2014) with his Kraków recording studio as a producer. With Tomasz Grochot (drums, percussion) there has been a collaboration on three albums since 2004. On the album East meets east and at concerts (also in 2009) Nigel Kennedy played on violin and electric violin with Kroke. A cooperation took place in 2007 with the singer Edyta Geppert and the jazz pianist Krzysztof Herdzin . Since the album Out of Sight , Kroke has concentrated more on the original trio line-up, where Grochot was no longer part of the line-up for the first time.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
East Meets East (with Nigel Kennedy )
  DE 84 06/30/2003 (6 weeks)
Śpiewam życie (with Edyta Geppert )
  PL 11 42/2006 (5 weeks)
Avra (with Maja Sikorowska)
  PL 15th 11/2011 (6 weeks)
Feelharmony
  PL 22nd 43/2012 (3 weeks)
Traveler
  PL 24 13/2017 (3 weeks)
  • Trio - Klezmer Acoustic Music (Oriente 1996)
  • Eden (Oriente 1997)
  • Live at The Pit (Oriente 1998)
  • The Sounds Of The Vanishing World , awarded the German Record Critics' Prize (Oriente 1999)
  • Ten Pieces to Save the World (Oriente 2003)
  • East meets east , with Nigel Kennedy (EMI 2003)
  • Quartet - Live At Home (Oriente 2004)
  • Seventh Trip (Oriente 2007)
  • Śpiewam życie - I Sing Life , with Edyta Geppert (Oriente 2007)
  • Out of Sight (Oriente 2009)
  • Feelharmony (EMI 2012)
  • Ten (Oriente 2014)
  • Cabaret of Death: Music for a Film (Oriente 2015)
  • Rejwach (Oriente 2019)

Outside of Germany the following were also published:

  • Avra , Maja Sikorowska & Kroke (EMI Poland 2011)
  • Live in Førde - Tindra & Kroke (2011, published in Norway by ta: lik; available as a download album in Germany)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Academy of Phonography Award “Fryderyk - 2015” in Roots music category , Nagrody Akademii Fonograficznej 2015
  2. ↑ DE PL