Wiano received the III Folk Recording of the Year Award. In the jury’s justification we can read:
This trio combines poetry, theatre and musicality into one fascinating and stunnigly original whole. They sing with such lightness, they swiftly manoeuvre around each other, exchange and meet with their voices, and create such intimacy and playfulness that reveal their virtuosity. Intoxicating and hypnotic. Pure genius.
With one voice
Do not be afraid Maniuchna, Maniuchna do not be afraid / The first night Jasio will let you be / But the second one he will not give way / So you can say he does not respect you / The third you will feel worse / Because he will raid you everywhere / Hands, legs, back / Saving the best for last [...]
Their voices intertwine in such a perfect way that it becomes impossible to recognize one from the others – and that is the idea, that the listener cannot decipher exactly whose voice is spinning this string of the song. ‘We are a tightly braided plait, like fabric’, Basia Songin explains, who is fascinated with Lithuanian and Polish polyphonic songs sung mainly by women – sutartines. The inspiration for the name of their musical ensemble. It means to be in concordance, in agreement. The girls do not change the traditional songs, although each of them sings with their own sensitivity and understanding of the lyrics. ‘Music is something very close, very intimate for us. It is a dialogue with the past. Traditional songs were and still are a part of everyday life, kitchen life’, said Kasia Kapela. Basia Songin added:
We talk about what was important for our ancestors 100, 200 years ago. About girls who would comply with their parents’ wishes, about sadness, the unfairness of one’s fate, about first love or heartbreak. Polish songs are all about what we seek in life, therefore we tell our own stories too. The audience at our concerts, understands these seemingly archaic lyrics, and catches the irony and humour infallibly.
In May 2017, Sutari’s second album came to life: Thistles (originally: Osty) shows the artists seeking traditional melodies from Kuyavia, Greater Poland and Mazowsze. They accomplished this by the help of Polish Radio archives, as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences and Oskar Kolberg’s ethnographic works. Alongside this research, the artists perform their own compositions inspired by folk poetry; the album contains Lithuanian kanklės, violins and other traditional instruments. In her review of Thistles, Kaśka Paluch highlights the multi-faceted nature of the album: