„To dance!“ album by a musical group Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTR gives another reason to believe that the cultural legacy of our ancestors is worthy of further cultivation and not only to be closed up in the museums. As the world is not too interested whether and how we play for example jazz, but the world is interested to know who we are. We find answers to this question in legacy of the past generations, in folklore. Just as L. Janáček found these answers and Moravian folk music became music of the world through his work. Music of Tomáš Kočko confirms the idea that it is worth being from somewhere without feeling ashamed of it. The album „Do tanca!“ contains 11songs, variations and modifications of Moravian folk dances and original pieces by T. Kočko inspired by folk dances or folk songs. He used both traditional instruments - cymbalo, grumle, violin, contrabass, kontry, gajdy, and instruments used in other music genres, such as acoustic guitars, djembe and small percussions played by many good musicians under the name of Orchestr. Although the final music form does not avoid touches with other genres, it still is an essentially Moravian music.
Tomáš Kočko, also called „walachian Pavlica“ moved from the walachian poet Ladislav Nezdařil (albums Horní chlapci, Do kamene tesané or Ondráš) through collections of folk collectors František Sušil and František Bartoš (album Hodovnice) to his original „world music song to dance“.

Sześcioosobowa formacja z Moraw grająca i śpiewająca muzykę folkową "Z drugiej strony gór", a więc jeszcze z charakterystycznymi elementami góralskiej dynamiki muzycznej, które splecione są z wyraźnymi akcentami brzmień węgierskich, a nawet liryką wołoskich ballad.

Lider Orchestry - Tomas Kocko jest autorem polsko-czeskiego spektaklu muzycznego pt. "Cieszyńskie niebo", który z powodzeniem wystawiamy jest w cieszyńskich teatrach po obu stronach granicy. Współpracuje z Jaromirem Nogawicą, komponując muzykę do jego poetyckich tekstów.

Orhestra występowała przed dwoma laty na prestiżowym festiwalu Polskiego Radia "Nowa tradycja", a porywający i niezwykle widowiskowy koncert, który przedstawili przyniósł im zasłużone Grand Prix.



„To dance!“ album by a musical group Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTR gives another reason to believe that the cultural legacy of our ancestors is worthy of further cultivation and not only to be closed up in the museums. As the world is not too interested whether and how we play for example jazz, but the world is interested to know who we are. We find answers to this question in legacy of the past generations, in folklore. Just as L. Janáček found these answers and Moravian folk music became music of the world through his work. Music of Tomáš Kočko confirms the idea that it is worth being from somewhere without feeling ashamed of it. The album „Do tanca!“ contains 11songs, variations and modifications of Moravian folk dances and original pieces by T. Kočko inspired by folk dances or folk songs. He used both traditional instruments - cymbalo, grumle, violin, contrabass, kontry, gajdy, and instruments used in other music genres, such as acoustic guitars, djembe and small percussions played by many good musicians under the name of Orchestr. Although the final music form does not avoid touches with other genres, it still is an essentially Moravian music.

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