Matelot | en

Matelot are a Polish folk band performing songs is the celtic style. Members of the band are Paweł Szymiczek (vocals, twelve string guitar, electric guitar, flutes and bagpipes), Wojtek Polesiak (button accordion, keyboard instruments, voice), Tomasz Glinka (bass guitar, vocal), Robert Sopala (drums). .

Matelo Ferret (aka Matelo Ferré, Matelot Ferret, Pierre "Matelo(t) Ferret, Jean "Matelot" Ferret) Before the recordings by Matelo Ferret were issued on CD in 1988, one knew little about the gypsy guitarists from the 1925-1930 Parisian cabarets, caf’conc’, and dance halls, apart from those who played jazz. Some people were of course aware that the young Django Reinhardt – a six-string banjo virtuoso – played Monti’s Czardas brilliantly as well as the legendary gypsy Gusti Malha’s elaborated waltzes, such as La Valse des Niglos. Nevertheless, as few people in those days ventured into the Parisian zone, no one knew that...