Music of Fire and Love / Jacek Hałas

Music of Fire and Love.
Concept: Jacek Hałas

The Western Borderlands, full of “blank gaps”, forgotten stories, unseen landscapes, are a very inspiring area. Its cultural non-obviousness encourages explorations of borderlands of language, art, or memory. The songs of firefighters – the men who have guts and heart, the men who touch the real border between life and death every day – balancing on the border of good taste, a crap and true emotion, are so far from the stereotype of “folk music” that they did not find their place in maps of ethnomusicologists. For us, this real “borderland” of traditions has become a great place of meeting, of fun, and of joy. And only a physical encounter – through singing, through dancing, at the table – gives us a chance of going across the borders of our village, of our country, of our religion, of our nation – to meet the other human being.

Jacek Hałas

photo documentation available: here