Slavyk built “Ko Peva Zlo Ne Misli” around a Jewish melodic theme and a Serbian proverb that translates roughly as “the one who sings means no harm.” The track opens that idea up across three languages: Serbian, Polish and Silesian, with Julia Lewandowska and Ana Vrbaški trading vocal lines over Łukasz Malok‘s guitalele, accordion and double bass while Marko Dinjaški drives the rhythm entirely through body percussion.
The quartet is two duos. Alice in WonderBand, the Serbian body music duo founded in Fruška Gora in 1998 by Vrbaški and Dinjaški, and CISI, the Silesian duo of Lewandowska and Malok. The four came together through an international music theatre project.
As the track builds, the proverb repeats and tightens, Serbian into Polish into Silesian, until it narrows to a single shouted “Ja!” and all four voices land on the same line. Malok recorded it in his own studio, acoustic and close, the claps and chest-hits sitting right next to the strings.
“Ko Peva Zlo Ne Misli” opens Slavyk’s debut album, 11 Songs of Love and Suffering, due in 2026 on CPL Music, the German folk and world music label that already carries Alice in WonderBand on its roster.
Listen to the single HERE