12 // Polish Traditional and Folk Music

Listen here: https://audiomack.com/song/jozef-stzef-gwizdala/bloc-radio-episode-12

(Subcity Radio’s playback feature isn’t working properly, so the show recording has been uploaded to a music playback site)

Bizarrely, one of my most popular playlists on Spotify is “Polish traditional music”. So I’ve done my research and filtered it down and hopefully I can make a show about it. I’ve got two playlists here today. One with the songs I’ve used in this episode, and one with a bit of a larger selection. Do check them both out!

The photo above is of my Grandparents who came to the UK during WW2.

Songs in the episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/157hh0ZjnDKv2YWlh6nAZv?si=vB0tB7XkSRyoK3DBbxe_Gg

More traditional songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6P08dr7jVDjqwTKkL2FC9m?si=dsB4Wn2FSVyQOgSbMzeKfw

Follow / contact me here: https://www.instagram.com/stzef/

Video of highlights from the dance troupe I was in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUzwIHvoo-U

Lyrics mentioned in the show:  Two hearts four eyes. Crying all day and all night long. Dark eyes, you cry because we can’t be together. We can’t be together.   My mother told me. You mustn’t fall in love with this boy.   But I went for him anyway and I’ll love him until the end. I will love him until the end.

5 // Pre-Soviet Eastern European Composers

In this episode of Bloc Radio, we’ll be looking at composers from all over Eastern Europe from the time before the Soviet era. There will be a tonne of beautiful piano, smooth orchestras and maybe a modern interpretation of a classical piece thrown in.

Listen to the show here: https://www.subcity.org/shows/blocradio/3fea4

As always, you can listen to all the tracks featured on the show here: https://open.spotify.com/user/11159129299/playlist/0yRvPpxBxE0CBasn5UQE8t?si=XG9ZoSakTge8X0UPiVQXpg

And if you want, you can follow/contact me here: https://www.instagram.com/stzef/?hl=en

Bloc Radio // блок радио – Episode 3 – Polish Hip Hop and Rap

Cześć!!

In this episode of Bloc Radio, we’ll be looking at modern Polish rap and hip hop. We’ll be exploring some mainstream classics, underground tunes as well as seeing what the future holds for the genre.

Listen Here: https://www.subcity.org/shows/blocradio/89cc8

You can follow/contact me here: https://www.instagram.com/stzef/?hl=en

You can view all the tracks featured on the show in a Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/11159129299/playlist/35VwTbvXzTmU0R6Wln8M0T?si=rO73jpsfRPyv7NHcq8o4vA

 

Bloc Radio // блок радио – Episode 2 – Soviet Era Jazz

In this episode of Bloc Radio, we’ll be looking at Soviet era Jazz. Hopefully, I’ll be able to introduce you to Melodia, the USSR state label and help show you the largely forgotten world of Soviet era Jazz.

You can listen to the show here: https://www.subcity.org/shows/blocradio/1e4a5

And you can follow me here : https://www.instagram.com/stzef/?hl=en

Enjoy!!

My First Article Was Published!

Many thanks to Steve Huff!

Film Friday with a Kodak Retinette II and Expired Film By Jozef Gwizdala

An 80 year old camera with 10 year old film

My first film camera was purchased around 3 years ago in an antique shop in Poznan, Poland. After admiring an old-fashioned camera whilst walking down a backstreet in the old city, I decided to enter the shop that was selling this camera (the shop looked as though it had been left unchanged for the past 100 years). As I entered, I was coldly greeted by an old woman who once I expressed interest in purchasing something, lightened up. I had no idea how a camera worked back then so I asked her if the camera worked, which she assured me that it did. I knew that I should probably not trust her but once I found out that it cost 40 Zł (around £8), I decided that it was worth it, even if it didn’t work, due to the beautiful aesthetics of the camera. Once I got back to the hotel room I decided to find out what this camera really was.