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Here You'll find CDs with rock (progressive, ethno, blues, metal) and jazz music from Poland, South America, as well as many albums from ex-YU countries.
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METUS "New dawn"

Poland 2007
Lynx Music, LM 24CD
Total time: 51 mins / 11 tracks

Metus is one man band, driven by Marek Juza. His second album reminds me some dark, melancholic songs of Deine Lakaien, especially because of the lead male voice, which sounds like the clone of Alexander Veljanov. Inspired music, although some listeners could find it monotonic...

HELMUT NADOLSKI "Meditation"

1974
Veriton, SXV-786
Never released on CD

Completely improvisated and intuitial music, created by the avantgarde double-bass player (known from Niemen's album "Marionetki") with the participation of Czeslaw Niemen on Moog, Andrzej Nowak (ex Niemen) on church organ and Olgierd Lukaszewicz (recitation). Recorded live in St. George Church in Sopot. Unusual, mystical work of incredible force.

ZBIGNIEW NAMYSLOWSKI "Winobranie"

Poland 1973 / 2004
Polskie Nagrania, PNCD 933
Total time: 42 mins / 5 tracks

One of the few record from the most impressive period in the carreer of Namyslowski, one of the top Polish saxophonists. Jazz of incredible power and truely rocking drive.

NIEBIESKO-CZARNI "Rock Opera: Naga"

Poland 1972 / 1995
Muza, PNCD 286
Total time: 74 mins / 22 tracks

The first Polish rock-opera, which were also for many times performed on stage of the Music Theatre in Gdynia. Psychodelic rock with rhythm'n'blues, blues and soul roots, full of great guitar and organ parts, with brilliant brass section of leading jazz musicians.

NIEMEN "Enigmatic"

Poland 1969 / 1996
Muza, PNCD 356
Total time: 36 mins / 4 tracks

The most famous of the great Niemen's works and the first really progressive rock album in Poland. Monumental suite with bells, organ and great choir parts on the side A and three long, progrock songs with strong jazzy and soul influences on the B side. With the participation of famous Polish jazz musicans.

NIEMEN ENIGMATIC "Czlowiek jam niewdzieczny"

Poland 1971 / 2006
Polskie Radio, PRCD 336
Total time: 76 mins / 11 tracks

The creative development of the ideas from the formerly album. Continuation of the trip into the progressive avantgarde, but the jazzy and jazzrock note is also to hear. This record is also known as "The red album".

NIEMEN ENIGMATIC "Marionetki"

Poland 1972 / 2006
Polskie Radio, PRCD 337
Total time: 70 mins / 8 tracks

Double album with all the SBB musicians as the Niemen Group. Mostly improvisated avantgarde based on the progressive rock. Contains near 20 minutes long free jazzrock improvisation with unbelievable double-bass player Helmut Nadolski.

NIEMEN "Aerolit"

Poland 1974 / 2006
Polskie Radio, PRCD 338
Total time: 39 mins / 5 tracks

Progressive rock with extended keyboards and synthesizers solos. Niemen's first step into the electronic sound, but the music is still powerful and variegated.

NIEMEN "41 potencjometrow pana Jana"

Poland 1974 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 1012
Total time: 41 mins / 1 track

For the first time out on record the legendary live recording from 1974. From almost 80 minutes were chosen about 40, featuring Niemen's quintet at his best. Fantastic jazzrock music with many improvisations, underground mood and some avantgarde touch.

NIEMEN "Katharsis"

Poland 1975 / 2006
Polskie Radio, PRCD 339
Total time: 40 mins / 10 tracks

The first Niemen's full authors work. Singing and playing on electronical equipment is He the only one musician on this album. The result ist very unique electronic music, total different to the keyboard wizards of that time, sometimes combinated with gloomy choral chant, without doubt in His own musical style.

NIEMEN AEROLIT "Idee fixe"

Poland 1978 / 2006
Polskie Radio, PRCD 340 - 341
Total time: 104 mins / 23 tracks (two records)

Brilliant mixture of pure electronic sound and progressive jazzrock. Niemen on keys together with the group Aerolit again. Includes one bonus track.

NO TO CO "So what"

Poland 1970 / 2004
Polskie Nagrania, PNCD 760
Total time: 40 mins / 14 tracks

The album with the best songs of this folkrock band, this time with English words and more psychodelic sound. Inludes two international hits: old blues "See see rider" and the long version of Steve Winwood's "Give me some loving"; with two tracks from single as the bonus.

NURT

Poland 1972 / 2003
Muza, PNCD 758
Total time: 37 mins / 9 tracks

The most legendary album in the history of Polish rock. Progressive underground music, powerful hardrock sound and some jazz influences. The first CD reissue on Digiton label contains the radio versions of the songs, the second Muza release is with the "right" tracks as on original vinyl album.

OSSIAN

Poland 1975 / 2006
Milo Records, MR 111
Total time: 42 mins / 6 tracks

The group were founded by two members of Anawa band. Their intuitial, experimental music, strong influenced by folk tunes and far east meditation, played on various traditional and modern acoustic instruments, created really meditative and mystical atmosphere.

OSSIAN

Poland 1978 / 2005
Milo Records, MR 109
Total time: 38 mins / 3 tracks

Live album with the participation of the best Polish trumpet player and one of the best jazzmen ever - Tomasz Stanko. Great underground folk with some jazzy touch.

OSSIAN "Ksiega chmur"

Poland 1979 / 2005
Milo Records, MR 110
Total time: 40 mins / 5 tracks

The second regular album of the band. Not so mystical and more sophisticated than the first one, but also very interesting, with improvisating experimental folk.

OSJAN "Roots"

Poland 1982 / 2003
Milo Records, MR 101
Total time: 35 mins / 2 tracks

Later album, but still in the band's style. Underground folk with mystical atmosphere and this time subtle touch of more rockin` music.

PAKT "Nagrania radiowe z lat 1969 - 2000"

Poland 1969 - 2000 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 1965 - 66
Total time: 145 mins / 44 tracks (two records)

Very interesting 70s band, personally connected with the legendary group Romuald i Roman. Psychodelic rock with strong folkrock influences; the first Polish "hippie rock" band. Short and simple, but very nice songs with soft psychodelic folkrock arrangements. The original radio recordings from early 70s and - as the special bonus tracks - few live compositions from 1969 and three songs from 2000, after the band's reunion.

PARADOX "Drifting feather"

Poland 1971 / 2004
Polskie Nagrania, PNCD 926
Total time: 43 mins / 7 tracks

Great acoustic jazz with the elements of rock, folk and flamenco music. The brilliant guitarist Slawomir Piwowar became in the late 70s the member of SBB group.

KRYSTYNA PRONKO & KOMAN BAND "Deszcz w Cisnej"

1978
Pronit, SX 1625
Never released on CD

The first side of this album, with several soul and soulrock songs, is maybe not very interesting. But the side B contains: over 13 minutes long great psychodelic rock suite, beautiful song for voice and hammond organ only and interesting, a bit funky title track. The album were never out on CD, but the longer, best track, called "Trawiaste przywidzenia / The dreams of grass" is to hear on the CD sampler: Krystyna Pronko - Osobista kolekcja vol. 3 (PRCD 359, 2003).

ROMUALD I ROMAN "Nagrania radiowe z lat 1968 - 1976"

Poland 1968 - 1976 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 1039 - 40
Total time: 132 mins / 32 tracks (two discs)

This double compilations contains all the radio recordings of the legendary Polish 70s underground rock band, including already known songs from the formerly (now unavailable) CD on Digiton label and many newly discovered tracks from the radio archives; inbetween also fantastic live jamming. Recommended!

RSC "Maraton rockowy"

Poland 1994 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 828
Total time: 59 mins / 13 tracks

The compositions for this album comes from 1984, but were re-recorded after 10 years. They are just artrock songs with violins as the solo instruments, many guitar and keyboard parts. Nice songs, but the realisation is not that great... This release comes with few bonus tracks from the rare album released in 1984 on cassette only.

RSC "Czas wodnika"

Poland 1996 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 836
Total time: 71 mins / 14 tracks

On this album RSC turns into the more progressive rock music, with more instrumental solos, longer tracks and good sound.

RSC "Parakletos"

Poland 1997 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 837
Total time: 68 mins / 8 tracks

The last album until yet, with good progrock compositions and nice instrumental solos.

GRUPA ORGANOWA KRZYSZTOFA SADOWSKIEGO "Na kosmodromie"

1971
Pronit, XL/SXL 0748
Never released on CD

Sadowski is without doubt the best Polish jazzy hammond virtuoso. The music on this album is also jazz and jazzrock with some progressive touch, based on the hammond organ sound; with the over 20 minutes long title suite including dreamy vocal and flute parts. On the B side are to hear few jazzy tunes with more free character.

SBB

Poland 1974 / 2007
Metal Mind, MMP CD 0567 DG
Total time: 155 mins / 11 tracks(two records)

The first album of the famous band, recorded live. Progressive free rock with many jazz, blues, avantgarde, classical influences. Long, improvisated tracks, very powerful sound with mighty bass, fuzzed guitar and amazing synthesizer solos. One of the milestones of Polish rock. This release contains for the first time full material recorded on this concert and four additional bonus tracks.

SBB "Nowy horyzont"

Poland 1975 / 2005
Metal Mind, CDDG 0321
Total time: 39 mins / 5 tracks

Their second album, a bit quiter and more ingeniuos, but still full of improvisations, which were always most important in the SBB music. Amazing mixture of progressive rock, jazz, avantgarde and classical piano sound.

SBB "Pamiec"

Poland 1976 / 2005
Metal Mind, CDDG 0322
Total time: 39 mins / 3 tracks

The third album of the band, closer to the mainstream progressive rock and dominated by the electronic keyboards of Jozef Skrzek. But the Slavonic roots of their music are always to hear.

SBB "Freedom - live Sopot 78"

Poland 1978 / 2002
CD Silesia, CD 002
Total time: 72 mins / 4 tracks

One of the numerous live shows of SBB in the 70s. The band was here really perfect, they played mainly two long suites from the great album "Follow my dream", which was an interesting compromise between the artistic ambitions of the band and the requirements of Western producer. Free progressive rock with many fantastic parts on electronic keyboards, but more disciplined and arranged. Really fantastic music!

SBB "Memento z banalnym tryptykiem"

Poland 1980 / 2005
Metal Mind, CDDG 0329
Total time: 42 mins / 4 tracks

For many fans the best of the SBB albums. Two epic works of Jozef Skrzek - 10 minutes long on side A and over 20 minutes long on the B side, with the legendary guitar solo at the end of the track - and two instrumental jazzrock songs composed by the other group's members.

SBB "Live in Marburg 1980. The final concert"

Poland 1980 / 2007
e-silesia.info, ESCD 003-4
Total time: 101 mins / 10 tracks (two CDs)

The last effort of the band before they disbanded for many years in 1980. Almost total improvisating, instrumental music with some influences of Weather Report sound (the bands played live at the same stage at that times). This time Slawomir Piwowar on guitar, Apostolis Anthimos on bass, while Jozef Skrzek played mainly Fender piano. The jazzrock side of this famous trio.

SBB "Trio live - tournee 2001"

Poland 2001 / 2002
CD Silesia, CD 001
Total time: 56 mins / 5 tracks

First album with the new drummer Paul Wertico (ex Pat Metheny). He determined the music of the trio as the powerful jazzrock, almost driven by the drums. The album is not bad, but the new face of the famous progressive Polish band is hard to accept by the old fans.

SBB "The Rock"

Poland 2007
Metal Mind, MMP CD 0558 DG
Total time: 71 mins / 11 tracks (two CDs)

The new album of the legendary prog band, the first one with the new drummer Gabor Nemeth from Hungary (ex Skorpio). Long awaited come back to the best prog years, with rocking drive, heavy drums rhythm, wonderful guitar, moog and organ solos. Remarkable is the new version of the Niemen's song "Pilgrim", which were played by SBB with Niemen in 1972.

ZBIGNIEW SEIFERT "Kilimanjaro"

Poland 1978
Poljazz, AN 206 - 8
Total time: 80 mins / 6 tracks (two records)

Live album of the legendary Polish jazz violinist (ex Tomasz Stanko), recorded 1978 in Krakow with the members of the groups Extra Ball and Laboratorium. Great modern jazz and jazzrock. The album includes also the interview with the artist.

SKALDOWIE "Od wschodu do zachodu slonca"

Poland 1970 / 2002
Yesterday, 830988029-2
Total time: 38 mins / 10 tracks

After few nice beat and psychodelic albums in the 60s the first step into the land of progressive rock. Great hammond organ and piano parts, beautiful songs arranged as the true prog works and ingenious idea of the whole album created one of the best Polish record. This CD release comes with the formerly band's album from 1969.

SKALDOWIE "Krywan, Krywan"

Poland 1972 / 2002
Yesterday, 830988031-2
Total time: 35 mins / 5 tracks

The band's Opus Magnum. The amazing title suite on the side A brings brilliant hammond organ and violin solos, improvisated avantgarde parts, influences of Polish mountain folklore and also excerpts from the works of great classical composers. On the side B are to hear four very good progrock songs. This CD release comes with another Skaldowie prog album from 1976.

SKALDOWIE "Stworzenia swiata czesc druga"

Poland 1976 / 2002
Yesterday, 830988032-2
Total time: 39 mins / 5 tracks

After four years the next brilliant album based on the same idea - the long, symphonic suite on the A side with four rock songs on side B. This time the title suite is more complicated and closer to avantgarde, while the songs are more quiet and delicate. This CD issue comes with the best album of the band - "Krywan" from 1976.

SKALDOWIE "Skaldowie dzieciom"

Poland 2002 / 2007
Autoproduction
Total time: 44 mins / 13 tracks

Songs for children, recorded in 2002, but released just now by the band. The words and melodies are really designed for children and first of all easy for listening, but most of them are just gems with their softly, beautiful music. Recommended for all the true fans of the band.

JOZEF SKRZEK "Ojciec chrzestny Dominika"

Poland 1980 / 2005
Muza, PNCD 997
Total time: 39 mins / 2 tracks

From all the SBB leader's solo work this one is the most progressive album. Two long, epic tracks with church organ, choirs, bells and all the rest of instruments, on which plays the only one Artist. As good as the best SBB records, but closer to the symphonic sound.

JOZEF SKRZEK "La Tempete"

Poland 2007
e-silesia.info, ESCD 001
Total time: 79 mins / 7 tracks

His last solo album, includes improvisating electronic music, performed on analogue Moog synthesizers. Recorded live at Silesian Planetarium.

SKRZEK & SKRZEK "Dwa braty"

Poland 2008
e-silesia.info, ESCD 005
Total time: 72 mins / 9 tracks

Interesting result of the interesting meeting. Bluesy feeling, voice and piano playing of Jan Skrzek together with the progressive-symphonic keyboards of the older brother, Jozef. The songs from the repertoire of both.

TOMASZ STANKO QUINTET "Music for K"

Poland 1970 / 2004
Polskie Nagrania, PNCD 922
Total time: 36 mins / 5 tracks

Sophisticated cool jazz, dedicated to the Krzysztof Komeda.

STRESS "Nagrania radiowe z lat 1972 - 1979"

Poland 1972 - 1979 / 2008
Polskie Radio, PRCD 1089 - 90
Total time: 93 mins / 21 tracks (two records)

The true legend among the Polish hardrock bands from the 70s, for the first time on any record. The first CD contains the songs from 1972 and 1973, very interesting underground heavy rock with flute, vibes (Jerzy Milian!) and, in the songs from 1973, violin parts. The later songs are closer to progressive rock; nice, but not interesting so much.

TAJFUNY "Nagrania radiowe z lat 1964 - 1966"

Poland 1964 - 1966 / 2008
Polskie Radio, PRCD 1080
Total time: 74 mins / 30 tracks

For the first time on CD the radio recordings of this group, who played instrumental beat as the Shadows or the Ventures. The album contains also 12 live songs from late 60., when they plays as the accompanying band with various vocal soloists.

TEST

Poland 1974 / 1992
Muza, PNCD 184
Total time: 61 mins / 16 tracks

The first true classic hardrock Polish band. They played many hardrock hits of western heavy groups, but the first and only one album contains their own songs, including also few easy rock ballads. The issue contains also five bonus tracks, including "Smoke on the water".

TRUBADURZY "Bedziesz ty..."

Poland 1973 / 1998
Muza, PNCD 410
Total time: 42 mins / 10 tracks

The band recorded few not very interesting, poprock albums. But this one brings unexpectedly rock and progressive rock songs with many really interesting hammond organ, guitar and flute parts and - last but not least - true rock expression.

MICHAL URBANIAK "Live recording"

Poland 1971 / 2004
Muza, PNCD 924
Total time: 39 mins / 6 tracks

The exciting album of the best jazzrock band from early 70s, recorded live at Jazz Jamboree 1970. Interesting combination of free jazzy improvisations and true rock expression.

MICHAL URBANIAK CONSTELLATION "In concert"

Poland 1973 / 2005
Muza, PNCD 1036
Total time: 42 mins / 5 tracks

The live effort of this legendary band again. This time closer to free rock avantgarde, with some sound experiments and unbelievable voice of Urszula Dudziak.

TADEUSZ WOZNIAK "2. (Odcien ciszy)"

Poland 1974 / 2002
Yesterday, 830988045-2
Total time: 37 mins / 8 tracks

After the first LP with beautiful folk songs and ballads Wozniak recorded their second album as the trip into progressive folkrock. The arrangements with leading electric guitar and Fender piano, sophisticated compositions, including near 15 minutes long title track, and some particular kind of trance in hearing of this music place the record among the best Polish progressive albums. This CD release contains also His first album.

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Discorama"

Poland 1970 - 1971 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 1009
Total time: 76 mins / 23 tracks

Two rare vinyl samplers from 1970 and 1971 now for the first time out on one CD. Including many rare beat and rock songs of Dzamble, Halina Frackowiak & Grupa ABC, Breakout, Czerwone Gitary, Portrety, Waganci and others...

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Srebrne dzwony"

Poland 1975 / 2007
Polskie Radio, PRCD 830
Total time: 53 mins / 13 tracks

This album presents the music from folkrock musical, where few Polish famous folk and rock artists (Marek Grechuta, Maryla Rodowicz, Stan Borys...) features the songs of Katarzyna Gaertner and Ernest Bryll. The most interesting are two long 1975 songs of Czeslaw Niemen, discovered newly in radio archives, added as the bonus tracks.

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