KRIWI is a Belarusian newFolk and clubEthno band. The band name means "a person belonging to the East Slavic tribe of

Kryvian The Krivichs (Kryvichs) ( be, крывічы, kryvičý, ; rus, кри́вичи, p='krʲivʲɪtɕɪ, kríviči) were a tribal union of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 12th centuries. It is suggested that originally the Krivichi were na ...

s". KRIWI uses a variety of European folk instruments (

zurna The zurna (Armenian language, Armenian: զուռնա zuṙna; Classical Armenian, Old Armenian: սուռնայ suṙnay; Albanian language, Albanian: surle/surla; Persian language, Persian: karna/Kornay/surnay; Macedonian language, Macedonian: з ...

balalaika The balalaika (russian: link=no, балала́йка, ) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the thir ...

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a vio ...

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Nor ...

cimbalom The cimbalom (; ) or concert cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box on legs with metal strings stretched across its top and a damping pedal underneath. It was designed and created by V. Josef Schunda in 1874 in ...

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

s, reeds, percussion) and mixing them with modern technology of synthesizer and samples, video-WJ InterFilmWostok and with vocals of Veranika Kruhlova (Veronika Kruglova) Вероника Круглова, Waléra Kanischtscheff-creator since 1996 : worldwide producing & booking of the „KRIWI“, official mail: kriwiby_aol.com

Discography

Studio albums

* Kriwi made in Belpunkt (1996) * Hej-Loli (1997) * Musica Vitale Di Grine Kuzine-Kriwi-Zollitsc (2000) * Minsk-Berlin (2002) * Live in Berlin (2004) * KRIWI Live — homevideo (2005) * InterFilmWostok fest — KRIWIvideo concert minsk (2006) * Traukamurauka (2013) * Pojdsem (2020) * Kriwi-InterFilmWostok compilation (2022)

Singles

KRIWI KRIWI is a Belarusian newFolk and clubEthno band. The band name means "a person belonging to the East Slavic tribe of Kryvians". KRIWI uses a variety of European folk instruments ( zurna, balalaika, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, cimbalom, flutes, reed ...

(2000) *

(2008)

References

External links

Official home page

actual info

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books 3
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