Sutari
Although the repertoire of Sutari contains primarily folk songs, the range of instruments they use in their performance includes Brazilian drums, jew’s harps, and ordinary kitchen utensils. Aside from experimenting with their sound, the band also employs a range of different singing techniques: blending more traditional singing with soul, whispers with roars. Although somewhat fantastical in nature, the works of Kasia Kapela, Basia Sogin, and Zosia Zembrzyska explore our tangible reality. The group makes broad use of folk sensibilities and a form rooted in tradition to tell tales of the modern world seen from the female perspective.
Kapela, Songin, and Zembrzuska met a couple of years ago at the Gardzienice Academy for Theater Practices. All three were already involved with music, theater, dancing, and film. In 2014, the trio released the Sutari debut LP, “Wiano,” which made considerable waves on the local folk scene and beyond. Later that year, the band appeared at Warsaw’s Cross Culture Festival and in 2015 the group played at the WOMEX World Music Expo and at the OFF Festival in Katowice. Also in 2015, Sutari recorded a session at KEXP, one of the most iconic radio stations in the world. Last year, the band released their sophomore effort, “Osty.” The title, which translates to “thistles” in English, emphasizes the multidimensional nature of the band’s music--thorny weeds on the one hand, thistles can also be used for medicinal purposes.
During the Silent Movie Festival, the band will perform a live score to Ernst Lubitsch’s “The Mountain Cat” starring Pola Negri.
“The Wild Cat” | Sat, Apr 21, 2018 | 2pm | Kino Iluzjon
