(the) Kurws – consisting of Dawid Bargenda, Jakub Majchrzak and Hubert Kostkiewicz – wasvformed in May 2008 as an unexpected result of a ping pong session. Since then they have pursued their own search, not so much in defined genres, but within the very foundations of rock, expression, and sound. It is a workshop where improvisation penetrates composed material, a congealed form of the creation process. Armed with repetitions, recombinations, variations and contrasts, they frolic with memory and expectations. Post punk, krautrock, rock in opposition, funk, no wave – they present modes of playing, motives, and riffs we have heard time and time again in a totally different context, dissected from their original environment, placed side by side, used in a brand new manner, deconstructed and distilled.
Their debut album “Dziura w Getcie” / “Hole in the ghetto” was released in 2011 in Europe in a joint venture by Qulturap (CD), Oficyna Biedota, Trująca Fala, Blinded (LP and MC) and in the US by Bat Shit Records (2013). In the meantime, 2012, they created Pustostany (released on vinyl by Sweet Rot Records in 2017) – an emphemeral band with Maciek Salamon on the vocal. In 2014 a second album of the Kurws, entitled “Wszystko co stałe rozpływa się w powietrzu” / “All that is solid melts into air”, was released on CD by Gusstaff Records (CD) and in Spring 2015 on vinyl (Gaffer Records / Red Wig records & tapes). In the end of 2017 came out their third album “Alarm” released on CD by Gusstaff, and on vinyl by Red Wig / Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu? / Jacob Records.
In autumn 2019 the group's goal is to travel to the UK, which is about to leave the European Union. At the invitation of the Manchester band Handle (and Duds), the winners of the WARTO award (2018) intend to play nine concerts in September (seven in England and two in Scotland). The planned activities with the British are a continuation of cooperation, that dates back to spring of 2018 and concerts in Hamburg and in the Catalan Sant Feliu de Guíxols. The tour includes important cultural music clubs, artistic bars and art galleries, educational, workshop and exhibition spaces. Meeting places that are a kind of generators of exchange of ideas and activities.