Filip Żółtowski Quartet / Pokusa /// From Bikiniarze to Hipsters

As part of the 9th edition of the From Bikiniarze to Hipsters Festival, the following will perform:

• Filip Żółtowski Quartet
• Pokusa

Filip Żółtowski Quartet

Filip Żółtowski Quartet mixes traditions of jazz playing with modern sounds and singable themes, also drawing from Polish folk. It is a fusion of often highly improvised jazz with electronic tones inspired by producers better known from pop or EDM scenes (e.g. Flume, Medasin), as well as hip‑hop beats in the style of James Yancey (J.Dilla). The main element uniting this genre fusion is jazz, inspired by the styles of Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Theo Crocker and Brad Mehldau.

Lineup:

• Filip Żółtowski — trumpet
• Szymon Zawodny — saxophone
• Wojtek Wojda — keyboards
• Mikołaj Stańko — drums

The quartet debuted on the jazz scene with the album Humanity (2021), which was warmly received in Poland and abroad. The band played on major stages and festivals such as Jazz Jantar, Batch Festival, Śledź Młody Jazz, Sopot Molo Jazz and Biedowo Music Fest.

In 2024 the band's second album BiBi (Alpaka Records) was released, marking a turn toward richer electronic sounds and an acoustic‑electronic synthesis. BiBi received excellent reviews and brought the quartet to stages including True Tone Festival, Cesky Rozhlas Jazz Fest, Slot Art Festival, and clubs Jassmine and Żak. In 2025 an EP GEN-RE was released, continuing the ideas from BiBi — a free blending of genres and blurring boundaries between jazz, electronics and beat music.

Key achievements:

• 3rd place at the Blue Note Competition in Poznań
• a distinction from the JazzPoPolsku foundation at Jazz Juniors in Kraków
• participation in the JAZZ.PL concert series broadcast on Program Two of Polish Radio
• the debut material was featured on the 2666 – Art of Listening channel and reached over 100,000 plays within four months.

POKUSA

POKUSA — jazz, friendship, experiment. The band, founded in 2012, draws its sound from the uncompromising nature of free jazz, combining it with influences from electronic, experimental and hip‑hop music. The first album ZERO was released in 2013 on Casablanca Studios, the second EINZ in 2018 on LADO ABC — with that album the trio toured Germany and Belgium and performed at festivals such as OFF Festival, Jazz Jantar, Jazz nad Odrą, Inne Brzmienia and Unsound. In 2020 a cassette in the Live at Pogłos series (DREAMLAND SYNDICATE) was released. The third album D.W.A. was recorded in summer 2020 at Zolton/Morton studio and released in 2021. After a break the musicians developed projects outside the band and soon returned with new material.

Pokusa lineup:

• Tymek Bryndal — bass guitar
• Natan Kryszk — baritone saxophone
• Teo Olter — drums

About the festival

From Bikiniarze to Hipsters is an interdisciplinary event presenting the most important trends of Polish counterculture of the 20th century. Since 2017 it has introduced key genres and aesthetics of Polish counterculture. Previous editions featured, among others:

• Osjan
• Dezerter
• Tymon Tymański
• Pokahontaz
• Nocna Zmiana Bluesa
• Lotto
• Nurt
• Przemysław Dyakowski
• Grupa w Składzie
• Krzysztof Knittel
• Maleo Reggae Rockers
• 1984
• Pornografia
• Księżyc
• RongWrong
• Za 7 Górą
• JUDE
• Qou Vadis
• Decadent Fun Club
• Psychoformalina
• T’ien Lai
• Wieloryb
• Sza/Za
• Wędrowiec
• Chino
• Der Mother
• Oranżada
• Naczynia
• Ścianka
• Hatti Vatti

Tickets:

• Price: 35 / 45 zł
• Tickets link: Link do biletów

How to get here:

Event page/directions: Event page/directions
We encourage using public transport or a bicycle. Limited parking spaces.

• Trams: 10, 23, 24, N45, N95
• Buses: 184, 197

Organization:

• Organizer: Wolskie Centrum Kultury and the Association of Creative Initiatives Third Wave
• Series curator: Łukasz Strzelczyk
• Support: ZAiKS