Hańba!

10 Polish composers of contemporary music and 10 poems by Grzegorz Uzdański. One Hańba!, which the Warsaw Autumn Festival invited to undertake a task that is both banal and exceptional – performing songs.

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Hańba! was originally conceived as a fictitious street band

whose protagonists / members used poetry and itinerant urban-type lineup to stigmatise evil and hatred in the world they inhabited – that of the 1930s and 40s.

At the start of the band's second decade, however, it is already hard to distinguish fiction, poetry, and the historical costume from a tale about the sad and ugly face of modernity.

Hańba! members are recipients of the Polityka Passport Award “for the surprising effects of musical-literary-political reconstruction that creatively revives the folk and punk formulas while at the same time accurately describing conflicts and threats in today's Poland.”