The name of the ensemble referred to the Jewish cemetery (kirkut), located near Socha’s house. This place was a starting point for him to consider work, identity, faith, culture, memory and Polish-Jewish relations. Socha formulated the philosophy of the ensemble in the spirit of conceptual art - referring to a special kind of palimpsest: the interpenetrating layers of cultures, times, styles, languages ​​and fashions.

Socha and Franczyk started creating together in the era of declining Polish People's Republic, that is, during geographic and cultural isolation, general apathy, dullness and the collapse of old social structures. Without any musical education, they learned music by listening to recordings broadcast by radio, on CDs and on tapes. They were fascinated by everything: radio plays, rock, jazz, classical, folk, experimental and avant-garde music.

The band's songs were initially created as a result of group improvisations during rehearsals - all band members were involved in developing their instrumental parts. However, most of the compositions were composed by Socha (who also wrote most of the lyrics) and Franczyk. The music of Kirkut-Koncept was formally and stylistically varied: rock expression and motor skills met the dadaist cabaret, ballad poetry with dirt and noise, experiment with banality and a musical joke with ritual - going from quasi-songs and naive melodies through multi-part instrumental compositions, to group improvisations. At concerts, the band used all these forms. The most important concert programs of the group are: "Piknik na kirkucie" (1987–1988) and "Kamień na kamieniu" (1988–1989). The last concert of the Kirkut-Concept took place on May 16, 1989 in Lublin. For the next two years, Socha tried to reorganize the band and record new material, but due to the lack of interest on the part of the audience and organizers as well as personnel changes - he finally suspended the band's activity.

Kirkut-Koncept was short-lived, but it was an important experiment in Polish rock music. Although the band has no direct followers so far, it is worth noting that with their ideas, "kirkuts" were ahead of their time, being - with all proportions - precursors of playing known much later, e.g. from the Radical Jewish Culture series in the USA or the new Jewish scene centered around Raphael Rogiński in Poland. These songs still have a lot to say.

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