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Bart\u0142omiej Pa\u0142yga plays many instruments from various cultural areas. He started his career in the Yerba Mater band, which performed improvised music from India and Persia. In 2003, he won the New Tradition Festival organized by Radio Poland with this band. Ten years later, he won the Grand Prix of the same Festival, this time with the band Cicha & Sp\u00f3\u0142ka. Additionally, he was awarded with an individual award, the Golden G\u0119\u015ble, for the best instrumentalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Pa\u0142yga is a musical experimenter, performing both Polish and Middle and Far Eastern music. He plays the cello, suka, kamancheh, s\u0101rang\u012b, talharpa, kobyz, Jew’s harp and flutes and drums from various traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s performed and recorded music with such famous artists as Maria Pomianowska, Gendos, Masala, Village Kollektiv, Karolina Cicha. He conducts workshops and programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He arrived at the Sybir Memorial Museum by car filled with instruments from the countries of Central Asia, where nomadic nations once created a special musical idiom. The largest collection was associated with Tuva, a South Siberian republic that is part of the Russian Federation; the musician went there years ago. \u2014 At the beginning of the 21st century, as it sounds today\u2026 \u2014 he laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pa\u0142yga presented, among others: the igil, a two-stringed Tuvan musical instrument with a sounding board covered with leather, with a long neck crowned with a horse’s head \u2014 The horse is very important to the Tuvan people, thanks to it they can survive in difficult conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instrumentalist also brought the Mongolian version of this instrument, i.e. morin khuur \u2014 the wooden one with a stronger sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also played the byzaanchy, an instrument with four strings made of hair, between which the bristles of the bow are inserted. This allows you to achieve the effect of doubling the sounds. \u2014 It seems that we hear two musicians \u2014<\/a> said Pa\u0142yga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also played the jewfish and the Kazakh kobyz with an open sound bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuvan music is a reflection of their animalistic beliefs, traditions and way of life. It captures the sounds of nature: the thunder of a horse, the whistle of the wind, the \u00a0gurgle of a stream. \u2014 Their songs also talk about this \u2014 said Pa\u0142yga. \u2014 If not about the lost land, then about the joy of riding through the steppe, the wind, life. They are poor people, they didn’t have much before Russia conquered them, and they didn’t get rich even under Russia \u2014 said the musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, what impressed everyone the most, were the different types of throat singing presented by Bart Pa\u0142yga: khoomei, sygyt and kargyraa and their varieties \u2014 borbangnadyr, chylandyk and ezenggileer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having wanted to learn these techniques he once went to Tuva with a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 It was July, we were prepared for Siberian summer heat. There it was 10 degrees. When we reached the manager of the community center recommended to us and asked to get us in touch with local musicians, we heard that they were all… in Europe. Because it’s summer and they went to earn money. There was one left, from Ensemble Tuva, because his wife was pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They met with \u017benia and introduced their skills to him. \u2014 Oh, it’s nice to sing here in Poland, he said \u2014 Pa\u0142yga reported. Because that’s not how Tuvans sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was not easy to learn anything from \u017benia. \u2014 We got him so riled up with questions and wanted him to explain it to us. But he couldn’t. Because no one taught him, it was just his grandfather, father, and himself who sang. This is our European way of thinking \u2014 go to a specialist, to a master so he can explain it to us \u2014 Pa\u0142yga said. \u2014 But in the end he told us: \u2018You have to swallow the sound.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 It was the only information we received on this trip, but we were not disappointed. Because it’s true, in order to sing overtones, you have to swallow that initial, strong sound in some way \u2014 he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Sounds like a camel! \u2014 someone from the audience called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bart Pa\u0142yga talked about how difficult and time-consuming it is to learn overtone singing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 When the Huun-Huur-Tu band was in Poland, my friend and I went to the dressing room with a gift. They are hospitable people, we spent a few hours there. I sang to them as best I could. One of them said, \u2018You’ll be good in 10 years.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since then, Bart Pa\u0142yga has been practicing all the time. \u2014 I can produce three sounds at the same time, the masters can produce four \u2014 he admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 I was fascinated by sound, then I became interested in that culture. Today we can learn a lot without leaving home, thanks to the Internet. I started with two cassettes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked by the audience how he learned to play so many instruments, he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 As my wife says, people are divided into self-taught and uneducated. If there is passion and enthusiasm, you will learn. I didn’t do it for the money \u2014 he laughed, pointing to his instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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