HOBOUD
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Hoboud
Warmian traditional hause

Songs

I WILL FIND ME A HUSBAND
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  • country:Poland
  • style(s):Folk, Fusion
  • label:not signed
  • type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
  • gender:male, female
  • instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
  • artist posted by:Polish Folk Management

Line up

  • Agnieszka Symolon (vocals)
  • Edward Cyfus (narration)
  • Marcin Drabik (violin, electric violin, nyckelharpa, vocals)
  • Marcin Ruminski (mandolin, electric guitar, vocals)
  • Maria Ruminska (piano, vocals)
  • Michal Jaros (double bass)
  • Przemyslaw Nagadowski (drums)
  • Slawomir Przytula (acoustic guiltar, electric guitar, vocals)

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Hoboud /Kobold - in the local dialect of Warmia/

The need to know their cultural roots and the history of the region of Warmia and Masuria, together with the people who lived there long before them, prompted Maria and Marcin's search...and in the old songs written down in the nineteenth century they found Hoboud.
Hoboud was reborn at the beginning of 2008 as an idea for a music project. After the thought occurred to Marcin and Maria Ruminski (as they are the originators of the project) they briefly arranged the first songs and started to look for other musicians to form their band. The people who joined them are versatile musicians, proficient in a couple of musical genres, with one thing in common - interest in folk music.

In their own words:
"We quite easily found songs that would fascinate and inspire us. The local dialect used in the lyrics though was a bigger challenge as the language is practically out of use now and so very difficult to verify and reproduce. A native speaker of Warmia dialect, raised in a home with strong Warmian traditions, lent us a helping hand and, enchanted with the idea of the project, joined us and became in charge of 'the literary side'. Edward Cyfus, the man in question, apart from translations of literary works into the local dialect, is well known in the region as a vernacular story-teller."

Since their first official rehearsal in the community centre of the Free Artists Association ("Wolna Grupa Tworcza" the band has been accompanied by constant attention of the Mass Media and the music scene. Within less than two months from the day Hoboud set up their Myspace profile, the site was visited the record number of times - 12 thousand - from all over the world and the uploaded 4 demo tracks were played over 9 thousand times
Their World Premiere Show was staged on 21 March 2009 in the Stefan Jaracz Theater in Olsztyn on the inaugural night of the XVII Olsztyn Theater Festival (XVII Olsztynskie Spotkania Teatralne). So many people wanted to see Hoboud's first ever concert that a double show had to be organised (the tickets for the concert had been sold out within less than two days).
The local Olsztyn insert issue of one of the main national quality newspapers in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza, features the following review:

"The performance absolutely came up to the expectations of those who had heard Hoboud's music in the Internet. The band's charisma was even stronger live. The energetic playing together with the beautiful singing of Maria Ruminska and Agnieszka Symolon carried the audience away to another world. The new songs presented for the first time turned out to be as interesting as the ones already known."

Hoboud's music consists in modern new arrangements of the original traditional songs of the Warmia region, the part of Poland where the local culture has been forgotten almost completely..
All the lyrics are sung in the original local dialect and the correct pronunciation is controlled by Edward Cyfus, the famous in the region native speaker and active propagator of the Warmian culture in Poland and abroad.