HOBOUD
HOBOUD
Agnieszka Symolon-voc
Marcin Drabik-vln,nyckel,voc
Marcin Ruminski-mand,el.guit,voc
Maria Ruminska - pn,meloton,voc
Michal Jaros-db
Slawek Przytula - ac.guit,voc
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Songs

traditional lyrics/music Marcin Ruminski
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  • country:Poland
  • region:Central Europe
  • 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 (voc)
  • Marcin Drabik (vln, nyckelharpa,voc)
  • Marcin Ruminski (mandolin, voc)
  • Maria Ruminska (pn,meloton, voc)
  • Michal Jaros (db)
  • Przemek Nagadowski (dr)
  • Slawek Przytula (acoustic guitar, voc)

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Musical-cultural project started between 2008 and 2009 by Maria and Marcin Ruminski in Olsztyn, Poland. 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.

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."

"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."