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Vocal Varshe & Jacaszek
V 12 | 163 | 2018
The project was inspired by reliefs of the outstanding American abstract artist Frank Stella and pre-war photos and drawings of wooden synagogues. From the crumbs of the world that no longer exists, an innovative work was born, full of ethereal music, mystical emotions and sounds that permeate time. A phenomenal, electroacoustic landscape was created - the musicians combined synagogue compositions, ghetto songs, niguns - Hasidic prayers without words as well as traditional and folk melodies performed in Poland during occasional meetings and the most important holidays in Judaism, with the electronics of Michał Jacaszek and the cello parts of Anna Śmiszek-Wesołowska.
Heaven's Gates is a story leaning behind the veil of history about a world that is gone and universal values that have always existed. Heaven's gates were created especially for the 7th edition of the New Jewish Music Festival with the support of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the premiere took place on April 14, 2016.
In May 2018, the "Heaven's Gate" project won the Grand Prix of the 21st Polish Radio Folk Festival - New Tradition. From July 2018, the band performs under the name Vox Varshe feat. Jacaszek. In October 2018, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews officially premiered the 'Heaven's Gate' album.
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Vox Varshe is a vocal band that creates music derived from the Jewish tradition. The band was established to bring listeners closer to forgotten music - often available only to a small audience in the walls of synagogues. He performs both traditional Jewish a cappella music and submits synagogue pieces to musical experiments, looking for his own sound and interpretation key.
Vox Varshe cooperates, among others with musicians such as Adeb Chamoun - an outstanding Syrian drummer, Michał Jacaszek - one of the most original creators of electroacoustic music, or Bester Quartet - an excellent band creating music that is the magical assimilation of classics, jazz and ethnic sounds inspired by klezmer music.
The band's original designs were performed at numerous concerts and festivals, among others Night of Sacra Cracovia in Krakow, New Jewish Music in Warsaw, East of Culture - Another Dimension in Bialystok, Non Sola Scripta in Wrocław, Warsaw Assisi, XXVI International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Polanica Zdrój, Czesław Miłosz Festival in Kiejdany, Kalwaria and Vilnius ( Lithuania), the official celebration of Hanukkah candles by the President of the Republic of Poland at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Festival of Music of Ethnic and National Minorities of the Republic of Poland, Days of Jewish Music in Szczecin, 23rd International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Wolsztyn, 11th International Festival of Chamber Music in Kalisz , 54. International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Szczecin, Night of the Temples at the Nożyk marriage Synagogue in Warsaw, Orient colors at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 2019, the band took part in the 'Marcin Masecki and Philip Glass for the 82nd Birthday of Dwojka' project organized by the Polish Radio.
In May 2018, the Heaven's Gate project, created together with Michał Jacaszek, won the Grand Prix of the 21st Polish Radio Folk Festival - New Tradition. In October 2018, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the premiere of 'Heaven's Gate' album, issued by Requiem Records.
In 2019, the album "Gate of Heaven", released by Requiem Records, was among the finalists of the Polish Radio Competition for Folk Phonogram of the Year 2018.
