Klawo (PL)

Klawo (pron. /klʌvɔ/) are seven young adventurers from Gdansk, Poland, brought together by their love of music, coffee and frisbee. Strongly rooted in the lineage of the seventies, when genres like funk, soul, fusion, and psychedelia were still relatively new, with the boundaries blurred between them, Klawo are spicing things up by adding the modern hip-hop and electronic oriented sounds to the pot. Taking equal influence from classic funk acts as from the obscure DIY songwriters, emerging from a vivid and diverse scene of Gdansk, having played over 50 gigs in 8 countries, Klawo is considered one of the most promising new bands on today’s Polish scene. Their sound, driven by three keyboard players, powerful rhythm section and melodic horns, gets compared to the contemporary UK jazz acts, seventies Polish funk, as well as experimental hip-hop productions of the LA scene. And the truth probably lies somewhere in between.

Klawo’s eclectic self-titled debut LP (2022, Coastline Northern Cuts), as well as highly energetic live shows, granted them a place in line-ups of some of the most important Polish festivals (Off Festival 2024, Tauron Nowa Muzyka 2024, Jazz Around 2023 among others) and international showcases, including the legendary Eurosonic (NL). In March 2023, Klawo, as the only Polish act, became a finalist in the HEMI Music Awards programme, an initiative to help artists from Central and Eastern Europe in international export. In July of the same year they won the first prize in the Jazz in The Park Competition held in Cluj-Napoca (RO). In August 2023 the first live album by Klawo was released by Coastline Northern Cuts, “Live!” - recorded on April 15th ‘23 at Sea You Tricity Music Showcase. The band’s second LP is on the way, with the release planned for the second half of 2024.