Jarek Adamów has been championing traditional Polish folk music for some 25 years. His albums have received mixed reviews in Songlines and Adamów was perhaps hedging his bets by releasing these two simultaneously. Forgotten Tunes collects 15 folk songs performed by the Nadbużanie choir. The singing is spirited and the arrangements uncomplicated, only accompanied by a little percussion and Adamów’s accordion. If Forgotten Tunes is unadorned and accessible, Sabbath of the Witches goes to the other extreme in being experimental and impenetrable. The album is comprised of just three tracks. ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ is a series of exhalations on the kaval (I presume), while ‘Neverending Story’ is a pleasant clarinet tune. Sandwiched between these two instrumentals is the titletrack. ‘Sabbath of the Witches’ drones on for 36 minutes. I’m not sure if Adamów’s hurdy-gurdy makes the drone effects but it sounds, to all the world, like a f ield recording of lawnmowers and chainsaws, and what it all has to do with witches’ sabbaths remains a discordant mystery.