Królówczana Smuga (PL)
A one-man song-and-dance ensemble by Adam Piętak, an artist from Biłgoraj in eastern Poland. His music emerges through distorted guitar sounds that seem to echo from forgotten, dust-covered instruments—like relics discovered in an attic or unearthed from a hidden forest grave. His voice—far from traditional “white voice” singing—resembles that of a weathered wanderer: raw, unpolished, and deeply evocative.
At its core, Królówczana Smuga is about reviving silenced, uncomfortable, or long-lost memories—rooted in the cultural soil of Biłgoraj. Yet this is not an act of ethnocentric nostalgia. Biłgoraj serves rather as a point of departure, an invitation for listeners to seek out their own “lost truths” buried within the landscapes of their personal or ancestral homelands.