Singing from the meadow, bass from the city: How Swada is reinventing traditional Slavic music

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Singing from the meadow, bass from the city: How Swada is reinventing traditional Slavic music  At the crossroads traditional music, electronic beats and a language that is still only spoken in villages, Swada x Niczos is bringing Slavic folk traditions into the present day.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/28/singing-from-the-meadow-bass-from-the-city-how-swada-is-reinventing-traditional-slavic-mus  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00Polish duo Swara and Nichos are bringing a new beat to traditional Slavic music.

00:05Using white singing, a traditional vocal technique from the Podlasia region in eastern Poland,

00:10they aim to show that tradition does not have to be left in the past and that it can evolve into the modern day.

00:16We recorded a teledysk on the beautiful Podlasian, in the Lonce,

00:21I remember about the sun.

00:23We liked it so much that we started to explore this topic.

00:27This is music from the whole world, which we explore here,

00:31and the Podlasian songs, a place in our local culture.

00:37When I was a very small girl, then I was taught to be a blue song.

00:43We also met in the Lodowy group, so this type of song is not a choice.

00:49I always loved it. It's a beautiful tradition and culture.

00:54It's a beautiful song.

00:58It's a beautiful song.

01:00The traditional song is very powerful and very strong.

01:04It's a great song.

01:06It's a very melodic song.

01:08It's a very plastic song, so you can say it a lot.

01:10And on the other hand, I feel that I can distance myself,

01:13singing not in the first language, but in the first language,

01:16which I learned from the years.

01:20In the middle of the world, I think, all of us speak in this language.

01:23We at home, in the city, in Bielsk, it's not so much.

01:26But in the middle of the world, all the babies,

01:29and where are they?

01:30And where are they?

01:31And where are they?

01:32And where are they?

01:33Exactly.

01:34And here is another thing that's always useful and still uses this to be used.

01:37As it appears, they like dancing to bass,

01:41and the people that are already above the years but also,

01:45I think that their children're passing their children's children,

01:47and they has to also hate the children.

01:50Soare and Nichos reach for the musical roots of the past

01:53and gives them a contemporary form.

01:55the very borderlands they come from, geographical, cultural, and generational.

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