KLAWO (PL)

“Their debut LP, released in July, is brilliant, bursting with terrific melodies. It occasionally calls to mind the young UK jazz scene, with its pulsating funk sound, but also boasts arrangements that would have been right at home in the golden age of Polish radio and TV. The group’s dense sound; their interweaving of electronics with wind instruments and flutes; and their undeniable groove make them one of the most promising young groups on the scene.” Jakub Knera, Bandcamp Daily

Klawo are seven young adventurers from Gdansk, Poland, brought together by their love of music, coffee and frisbee. Strongly rooted in the lineage of the seventies, when genres like funk, soul, fusion, and psychedelia were still relatively new, with the boundaries blurred between them, Klawo are spicing things up by adding the modern hip-hop and electronic oriented sounds to the pot. Taking equal influence from classic funk acts as from the obscure DIY songwriters, emerging from a vivid and diverse scene of Gdansk, having played over 50 gigs in 9 countries, Klawo is considered one of the most promising new bands on today’s Polish scene. Their sound, driven by three keyboard players, powerful rhythm section and melodic horns, gets compared to the contemporary UK jazz acts, seventies Polish funk, as well as experimental hip-hop productions of the LA scene. And the truth probably lies somewhere in between.

Klawo’s eclectic self-titled debut LP (2022, Coastline Northern Cuts), as well as highly energetic live shows, granted them a place in line-ups of some of the major Polish and European festivals

(Eurosonic/Noorderslag, Off Festival, Fusion Festival, Tauron Nowa Muzyka among others).

In March 2023, Klawo, as the only Polish act, became a finalist in the HEMI Music Awards programme, an initiative to help artists from Central and Eastern Europe in international export. In July of the same year they won the first prize in the Jazz in The Park Competition held in Cluj-Napoca (RO). In August 2023 the first live album by Klawo was released by Coastline Northern Cuts, “Live!” – recorded on April 15th ‘23 at Sea You Tricity Music Showcase. The band’s second LP is on the way, with the release planned for the second half of 2024.

Klawo are:

Konstanty Kostka – keys, percussion, vocals

Jakub Krzanowski – drums

Malina Midera – keys, percussion

Tomasz Rafalski – keys, percussion

Alicja Sobstyl – flute, vocals

Artur Szalsza – bass, guitar

Karol Tchórz – trumpet

Date: 12th of October, Saturday, 21:00

Venue: Háromszék Dance Studio

Duration: 75 minutes

Ticket prices: 30 / 15 lei

Full-price tickets can be purchased online at Eventim.ro from the 4th of October.

In person at the Municipal Ticket Office, full-price and discounted tickets can be purchased from 7 October, exclusively by cash payment.

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