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Kroke – A Kraków instrumental ensemble of the world music genre. The band’s name in Yiddish means Kraków.
The band was founded in 1992 by three friends and graduates of the Academy of Music in Krakow. Initially, they were associated with klezmer music with strong Balkan influences. Currently, their work draws inspiration from a variety of ethnic music and sounds of the Orient (especially on the album Seventh Trip), combining these with jazz to create their own distinctive style.
In recent years, in addition to their own projects, KROKE has also recorded albums with artists such as Nigel Kennedy, Edyta Geppert and Maja Sikorowska.

The first official release from KROKE was the 1993 cassette “Klezmer Acoustic Music”. During a promotional concert for the album, the band met Stephen Spielberg, who invited them to perform at the “Survivors Reunion” concert in Jerusalem, Israel and during the Polish premier of the film “Schindler’s List”.
In 1996, the band signed with the German record label Oriente. The first album of material, released the same year, through this collaboration was “Trio”.
Upon the invitation of Peter Gabriel, KROKE made their first appearance at the WOMAD festival in July 1997. As a result, joint recording sessions at Real World Studios with other musicians led to material from the band being subsequently used by Peter Gabriel on his album “Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence”, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. In the same year, KROKE released their second full-length album – “Eden”.

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