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Monsters crawl out of their burrows – 2009
Can children know the nature of life and death? Are their ”little” problems, experienced almost daily, as difficult as those of the adult world? Is it worth leaning into children’s fear, but also humour and energy? A loud, bold ‘YES’ can be heard on the album by Joszek Beard and the band Dzieci z Broda.
Joszko Broda invited Polish musicians to join the project – Wojciech Waglewski (guitar), Arkadiusz Skolik (drums), Cezary Paciorek (accordion), as well as the Hungarian Róka Szabolcs (eight-stringed bagpipe) and the German Loka Richter (bass guitar). Joszek’s ethnic instruments were also in evidence. The children’s lively singing along with the lively music can make you dance to the rhythm of the oberek, mazurka, krakowiak, tango, polka and waltz. When needed, the sweet harmony and warm words you hear at bedtime from your mother’s lips will lull the biggest troublemaker to sleep.
Just as children know how to sing, musicians know how to play music, Debora Broda has once again shown that she knows how to write lyrics. It is she, who has always been associated with the world of children, who has written all the words and who has also written the melodies of some of the songs. She masterfully infuses the poetry for the youngest with the prose of their lives. Among the fairy tales, the non-syllables, we find no ‘lamb’ but ‘untamed and utterly wild’ monsters. All ends well, because “Ninety-nine/ It’s not a hundred yet/ Don’t be afraid!/ In the world, evil will not prevail”. Joszko Broda himself emphasises in an interview with ‘La Salette’: “We wanted to show the direction for a healthy society, where a child needs parents, siblings, where boys and girls are different and have a different role to play in life, where children make a mess, clean up and then listen to a lullaby, where a person is convinced that Heaven is waiting for them after death.”
The fifth album by the Bearded Children is a wonderful combination of a deep message with childlike carefreeness and madness; music inspired by mature folk, rock and jazz with lyrics that everyone can understand. A great addition to the fun here or a pretext for serious conversations with children who, like us adults, want to embrace the ‘land that doesn’t fit in the head’.
