Kajoki / The Kajoki
This combination of intellectual and physical rigour (pure trance!) with creative freedom (the theme here is merely a pretext for fractally endless improvisation) is hard to find in folklore recordings from other regions of Poland. Experts claim that the strength and originality of Kajoki music (from a handful of villages in the western Radom region) stems from its archaism. Paradoxically, though, one can also hear here a riotous modernity, reminiscent for example of the harmolodics of Ornette Coleman.