Hańba!
Punk did not arise in British clubs during the noisy seventies: it did in blue-collar suburbs of the Polish Krakow in interwar period! At least so claims the fiction used for the creation of Polish street rebels who perform under the name Hańba!.
03. February 2016
The band Hańba! was started by musicians with experience in folk, klezmer, punk, indie-rock, metal, and even electronic formations. The genuine genre set is completed with the unusual instruments the band plays. The four pals produce their folk-punk using drums, banjo, accordion, clarinet, and tube; while three of them stand behind the microphone. Their lyrics are based on the works of Polish interwar poets. Last year, they performed at OFF, one of the largest Polish festivals. Here, they caught the ear of KEXP, the well-known US radio station, which started shooting a series of videos on Polish bands with them.
Hańba! sing songs about the artistic flowering of the Second Polish Republic and are the mouthpiece of its ills: an unprecedented level of corruption, authoritarian tendencies at the expense of democratic values, widening social inequalities... Well, given a second thought, do Hańba! sing about historical or contemporary problems? Some things obviously need be constantly reminded of; the energizing form in which these Krakovians present their art is ideal.