Katy Carr releases Polish WW II album
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Peter Gentle
18.09.2012 12:34
Acclaimed Polish-British singer-songwriter Katy Carr has released her fourth album in Poland this week, which is inspired by Poles’ experiences during WW II.
The album Paszport (the Polish spelling of ‘passport’) is dedicated to “the Polish WW2 experience and plays homage and salutes those brave Polish people who fought for an Independent Poland and for their courage, loyalty, honour and defiance in the face of absolute adversity," the singer says on her web site.
The singer, with her band the Aviators, was nominated for the 2012 London Music Awards, alongside Kate Bush and Arctic Monkeys.
The release date of the album in Poland, 17 September, was 73 years ago, to the day, that the Soviets invaded Poland at the beginning of World War II.
Paszport will be released in the UK in November.
The album is not the first to be inspired by her Polish roots.
The single Kommander's Car is inspired by Kazimierz Piechowski’s daring escape from the Auschwitz death camp in June 1942.
Piechowski escaped from Auschwitz along with three other prisoners dressed as members of the SS, in a stolen SS staff car, in which they drove out through the main gate.
Carr also produced a documentary about the heroics of Piechowski in the documentary, Kazik and the Kommander's Car, directed by British film maker Hannah Lovell. (pg)