Fire In the Mountains, Vol. 1 - Polish Mountain Fiddle Music

Fire In the Mountains, Vol. 1
Polish Mountain Fiddle Music
The Karol Stoch Band
Yazoo 7012; Ordering Information; Volume 2

"Demonstrates the musical style of a community
essentially lost to the modern world." - Sing Out
"The songs and stories of Tatra mountain music are
exceptionally compiled here...invaluable."
- Rhythm Music

Mountain music has a soul of its own, no matter where the mountains might be. Centuries ago, fiddlers in southern Poland's isolated Tarta Mountains developed a singularly rough, though sophisticated, dance and vocal music of their own. Some of these musical highlanders were shepherds whose fiddles were carried from the villages to the mountain peaks each spring, where the shepherds played for themselves as their sheep grew fat. Karol Stoch was an exceptional Tatra Mountain fiddler who migrated to Chicago in 1926. Soon he was making the records which would preserve traditional highlander music for generations to come. His performances have since been cherished studied and emulated from is time to our own.


Karol Stoch


1. Z POD GIEWONTU (From under Giewont) 2. ZAKOPIANSKA PIOSENKA (Song of Zakopane) 3. SPIEW Z GUBALÓWKI (Song from Gubalówka) 4. SABALOWE (Song of Sabala) 5. PIOSENKA STAREGO BACY (Song of the Old Head Shepherd) 6. Z PORONINA (From Poronin) 7. KOSCIELISKA (Koscielisko (song)) 8. SPIEW JUHASA (Song of the Young Shepherd) 9. OSTATNIA NOC JUHASÓW W TATRACH (PART 1) (Shepherd Boys' Last Night in the Tatras) 10. OSTATNIA NOC JUHASÓW W TATRACH (PART 2) (Shepherd Boys' Last Night in the Tatras) 11. KROLOWA TATR (Queen of the Tatras)	12. PIESN ZBÓJNICKO (Song of the Brigand) 13. PRZEWODNIKA (Mountain Guide's Song) 14. KONDRACKA 15. OSTATKI NA PODHALU (Last Days before Lent in the Mountain Pasture) 16. TANIEC W KARCZMIE (Dance in the Stone Tavern) 17. MARSZ GÓRALSKI (Górale March) 18. NA LYSEZ POLANIE (On Lysa Polana (Bald Clearing)) 19. DOBRA NOC WESELNO (PART 1) (Good Wedding Night) 20. DOBRA NOC WESELNO (PART 2) (Good Wedding Night) 21. POSZEDL JASIEK NA ZBÓJ (Jasiek Went to Steal) 22. PO COS DZIEWCE POWIEDZIALA (Girl, Why Did You Tell?)