Oberkas Travel - Oberkas Travel (2025) [Hi-Res]

The debut album by the Oberkas Travel quartet reimagines the traditional music of Central Poland, transforming the archaic oberek into a contemporary psychedelic and trance-like experience. The band members, drawing from backgrounds in jazz, electronics, and folklore, merge authentic 19th-century Polish rhythms with global musical influences from Asia and Africa. Featuring folk singer Maria Siwiec, the recordings are grounded in years of ethnographic research within the Radom–Opoczno region. The album dissolves temporal boundaries, presenting a local dance form as a universal element of the global dance lexicon while creating a unique ritual based on improvisation and complex rhythmic structures.

Mateusz Niwiński — Stroh violin
Piotr Zabrodzki — synthesizers, piano
Piotr Domagalski — basolia
Jan Emil Młynarski — jaz
featuring Maria Siwiec — vocals (2,6,7,10)

Tracklist:
1-1 Oberkas Travel - Kmita [4:27]
1-2 Oberkas Travel - Domaniów [4:06]
1-3 Oberkas Travel - Sanniki [3:27]
1-4 Oberkas Travel - Zalew Domaniowski [4:59]
1-5 Oberkas Travel - Brogowa [2:50]
1-6 Oberkas Travel - Owczarek [3:11]
1-7 Oberkas Travel - Bogusz [3:43]
1-8 Oberkas Travel - Skiba [4:34]
1-9 Oberkas Travel - Zdunków [3:39]
1-10 Oberkas Travel - Wieniawa [5:12]
1-11 Oberkas Travel - Jaźwiec [5:13]