Style
Her repertoire consists of difficult, not easily-accessible interpretations of poem texts. Since her songs are often based on poems of greatly appreciated "classical" poets like Polish writers Julian Tuwim and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński or non-Polish, like Goethe, Mandelstam, Rainer Maria Rilke or those of avant-garde writers like Miron Białoszewski, the genre that Demarczyk is associated with is sometimes called sung poetry.
Her songs convey strong emotions, partly associated with the counter-culture movement in Poland during the 1970s and 1980s, when the country was under communist rule. Because of censorship, her songs are not ostentatiously anti-communist or political. Nevertheless, through subtle means of imagery, symbolism and metaphors that implicitly refer to concepts of freedom, in some of the songs she has expressed the general discontent with the authoritarian rule of the period. Many other of her songs deal with existential topics.
In her performances, she unites both dramatic theatrical expression and vocal art (she is a graduate of both a drama school and conservatory, where she studied piano). Every song she performs is in fact a short musical drama of enormous intensity.
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