Makaruk – TABOO FOLKTALES (pl. Erotyki Ludowe) is a music concert project, which connects polish traditional music with modern arrangement and jazz composition.

Concerts of taboo folktales band are filled with illustrative sound impressions, magic, traditional mysticism and trance. However, often the music switches into
humorous vocal and music jokes full of spontaneous energy and instrumental improvisation, which reveals the spontaneity and freedom of polish traditional and jazz music together. The concert repertoire includes songs about love, betrayal, affection but also it contains ballads. songs about death, impermanence. The spectrum of emotions played during the concert is very wide.

The sound of the band is an innovative and mixture of interesting jazz arrangements, classical sounds, colorful polish traditional texts and traditional melodies as well as wide and deep electronics.

The totality is fulfilled by the appearance of the award-winning polish traditional female choir, singing in an exceptional timbre, typical for East-European folk music (Singers Ensemble of Ruda Solska) and a special guests – Michal Urbaniak, Tymon Tymański, Antoni Gralak and Wlodzimierz Kiniorski – renown polish jazzmen.

The band promotes the record “Erotyki Ludowe” (FTABOO FOLKTALES), released on the 8th of October by Karot Kommando label. The album features: Michal Urbaniak (a world class jazz violinist and composer), free-jazz guru Tymon Tymanski, Tuvan khoomei throat singer and shaman Gendos, and others.

The album includes 13 tracks, amongst them: melodic ballads, lullaby, funeral song, romantic and humorous joke songs.

The concert performance is approx. 60 minutes long.