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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 7:52:42 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 7:57:50 GMT -7
I had a record of Marek i Wacek and I was crazy about them as a kid. Still like them.
The years 1981-1982 were for me the beginning of cooperation with the Austrian television ORF. At the beginning of 1982, the very popular band MAREK AND WACEK came to Vienna. The band was accompanied by the most outstanding Polish announcer Lucjan Kydryński. The day before their first concert in Vienna, an extensive material about the band Marek and Wacek appeared on Austrian television, thanks to which all tickets in the most prestigious Vienna concert hall Musicverein were sold out in one day.
Marek i Wacek (Marek and Wacek) was a musical duo of Polish pianists Marek Tomaszewski and Wacław "Wacek" Kisielewski, that performed from 1963 until Wacek's death on 12 July 1986. Formed in early 1960s, the duo debuted in a TV program on March 8, 1963.
Marek and Wacek played the principal roles in the 1966 musical film Tandem.
Exotic Samba music
This today would be excellent Romantic Restaurant background music. It has something from Polanski's Bitter Music movie Vangelis theme song.
I had played this Red record of Marek i Wacek a lot during the eighties on my record Player and later on also in Amsterdam and listened to them every now and then during this century. Sometimes it is to emotional and melancholic for me, because it brings back many old memories of family members and friends from Poland from that Peoples Republic time. When their music plays I see images from Poznań, Warsaw and driving by car and train trough the Polish Peoples Republic. All Polish music of that time brought to me by Polish friends & family members who brought with them records from Communist Poland. Refined, subtle and clear memories, not nostalgic ones, but as it was an slightly melancholic, because there was some heavy melancholy in Communist Poland in my own deeply melancholic memories and nature. The way babcia and dziadeks (grandma and grandpa's) house appartment (1 room) looked, the light of that time, the colours, the interior design and the outside architecture, the furniture in their room and in that of the apartments of uncles and aunts, and the teenage rooms of my 2 cousins. The state hotels Orbis, the state supermarkets SAM, the Bar Mlechny, the Milicja Obywatelska in their grey light blue uniforms and patrol cars. The smell of the delicious food cooked by babcia, the street life on the busy Poznań boulevards with it's trams, public transport busses, the Nysa vans, FSR Tarpan light trucks, Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych "Star" (FSC Star) trucks, old ancient FSO Warszawa cars, the Polski Polski Fiat 125p and Fiat 126 Maluch cars, the FSO Polonez cars, and of course Soviet Lada's, Czechoslovakian Skoda's and some East German DDR Trabant and Wartburg cars. Occasionaly you saw some old West-European Volkswagen Golf, Beattle or Mercedez, Audi or BMW cars. But most traffick was made of East-Block cars and motorbikes. As a kid I was hypnotized by a shining Red Czechoslovakian Jawa 350 motorbike in a showroom in Poznań in the early eighties. Of course I remember the many walks through the city and the many visits to the Zoo and that we went many times to the cinema as kids, because for Westerners the Polish prices were cheap. Also dinners in the state Hotel Orbis or restaurants in the Old town (Stary Rynek). My parents bought quite a lot of art from Polish artists from Poznań. Some of whom were related to the family. The Communist reality but many things that remembered of a different Prussian (Posen) and old Pre-war Poznań in that Poznań of the Peoples republic. We always went to Poznań and to the Sudety mountains, the family holiday house in the country side and once to Warsaw in 1984.
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 9:07:30 GMT -7
A friend of my mother brought a green coloured record of Papa Dance to Vlissingen and gave it to me. My sister and parents got other presents. I have this Papa Dance Album: Poniżej krytyki until to today. I have 3 Polish long play records Marek i Wacek, Papa Dance - Poniżej krytyki and Turbo - Dorosłe dzieci.
Papa Dance
Papa D (formerly Papa Dance, Papa Dance New Sound and Papa Dock) is a Polish synthpop group, founded in 1984 on the initiative of music producers - Sławomir Wesołowski and Mariusz Zabrodzki. Papa Dance was a popular pop music "boy band" in the Polish Peoples Republic. In 1986 the Polish singer Paweł Stasiak (1967) became the lead singer of Papa Dance, replacing Grzegorz Wawrzyszak. With the band released two LP's: Poniżej krytyki (1986) and Nasz ziemski Eden (1988). In 1986 the song Naj story was the number one on the Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego.
The band stopped activity in 1990, and Stasiak has started his solo career under the name "Mr. Dance." He published three LP's: Mr Dance, Pozdrowienia dla Papa Dance and Życzenia.
Group Papa Dance was revived in 2001 with Stasiak as a vocalist. In 2007 the group changed its name to Papa D.I really liked this song as a teenager of 15/16 and played it dozens of times in 1985/1968. I was quite addicted to this song which was quite a modern synthpop song for the eighties. Papa Dance was close to Italy disco and some British New Romantic New Wave Synthpop bands. I was a quite ecclectic teenager who played a lot of Rolling Stones, U2, the Police, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Prince, the Cult rock music and hard rock, heavy metal and New Wave (Joy Division and the Cure) music. But next to that softer music of different styles. The Polish music fitted in that ecc;ectic mix. Also as part of the Polish authors I read an my memories of vissits of the Polish Peoples Republic.TurboTurbo is a Polish heavy metal band. It was started in January 1980, in Poznań, by Henryk Tomczak (formerly in Stress and Heam, both pioneering Polish hard rock groups). Dorosłe dzieci is the first studio album by the Polish heavy metal band Turbo. It was released in 1983 in Poland through Polton. The album was recorded in July, August and November 1982 at Rozgłośnia Polskiego Radia studio in Szczecin. The cover art was created by Alek Januszewski and photographs by Antoni Zdebiak. Turbo has been described as one of the most important bands in Polish heavy metal. Turbo's most famous album is Kawaleria Szatana (Satan's Cavalry), considered an opus of Polish heavy metal. The band is best known for the tracks "Dorosłe Dzieci", "Jaki był ten dzień", "Żołnierz fortuny" and "Wszystko będzie ok". As a teenager i played Turbo a lot next to Black Sabbath, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Slayer and Motörhead and other Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music (Radio hard rock programs, cassette tape recordings from the radio, LP's, 12" records, singles and later during the eighties audio music CD's -albums-).
When I look back I of course was less critical than today, but everything behind the Iron Curtain was interesting for me. From the East-German hot ice skater Katarina Witt, the Czechoslovakian Jawa motorbikes, Polish long play records to driving through the Communist East-Germany and Communist Poland in my fathers Ford Taunus Bravo (driven by my dad) and by train (from the Netherlands to Poland) and enjoying the Polish landscape, nature and natural lakes. I loved to swim and fish in these Polish lakes. I was a good fisherman as a kid, better than later as a teenager in Zeeland.
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 10:14:58 GMT -7
Polish Pop Music of the eightiesThe early 80's brought Poland a multitude of new rock bands and styles. All this happened despite overall low availability of records on the market, difficulties with releasing records and obtaining professional instruments, and most of all, the overall political turmoil (martial law was declared on December 13, 1981, resulting in severe restrictions on everyday life until 1983). The overall attitude toward rock changed for the better, with the Opole festival allowing true rock artists from 1980 on, and the creation of the main Polish rock festival of the decade - the Jarocin festival. The latter one, first held in 1980, was the Polish equivalent of Woodstock, with many top bands making their debut there. In fact, Jarocin was sort of a credibility indicator for rock artists in Poland - reception at the festival was one of the keys to popularity.
The first punk / new wave bands in Poland were Kryzys and Deadlock. Both operated in the underground and did not last long enough to enjoy success, but were an inspiration for many followers. Another pioneer was John Porter; hailing from Wales, after a brief period in Maanam he formed his own band; the first LP by Porter Band ("Helicopters", released 1980), with English lyrics, is widely regarded as one of the first new wave albums in Poland. Among the most prominent Polish new wave artists in the early 80's were Brygada Kryzys (formed from the ashes of Kryzys), early Maanam, Republika, Klaus Mitffoch and the more experimental Aya RL. Polish punk rock found its representatives above all in Dezerter, KSU and Siekiera (the latter, dubbed 'the most extreme band in Poland', later changed lineup and went more in the cold wave direction). Later in the decade new bands and solo artists came into the picture, like Madame, T.Love, Tilt, Lech Janerka (formerly of Klaus Mitffoch), Kult, 1984, Variete, One Million Bulgarians, Rendez-Vous, Moskwa, Armia and Bielizna - all having their own style, but rooted in new wave and punk. Some of them, although already successful in the 80's, would have to wait till the next decade to show their full potential on record (Armia is a good example).
Mainstream rock and pop rock was also developing. The biggest stars were Perfect, Lady Pank, Budka Suflera (their 80's albums are quite different from the progressive works of the 70's), Rezerwat, Lombard, Bajm, Banda i Wanda, Oddział Zamknięty and later in the decade also Sztywny Pal Azji, Obywatel G.C. (alias for Grzegorz Ciechowski, former leader of Republika), Róże Europy and Kobranocka. More electronic approach to pop was represented by Kombi, Klincz, Kapitan Nemo, the more dance-oriented Papa Dance and female singers Urszula and Izabela Trojanowska who both collaborated with Budka Suflera in the early 80's.
Other styles explored included blues rock and Southern rock (Dżem, Tadeusz Nalepa of Breakout, Krzak, Kasa Chorych, Martyna Jakubowicz, Recydywa, Obstawa Prezydenta), reggae (Izrael, Daab), hard rock and metal (Azyl P, Fatum, Hammer, Kat, TSA, Turbo, Wolf Spider), progressive rock (Exodus, RSC) and electronic instrumental music (Marek Biliński, Władysław Komendarek). There were, of course, some artists that could not be easily classified into a genre; a good example is Voo Voo.
The eighties were an incredibly creative period in Polish popular music, impossible to cover at once in a short article. Ironically, when at the end of the decade Poland became a democratic country, this was not reflected in the improved quality of Polish music. It opened, however, new possibilities of development for the artists and the music market.
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 10:16:52 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 11:19:29 GMT -7
Poland had also it's anti-communist Anarchist Punk rock scene, this is a Polish Punk band from the early eighties. It sounds quite similar to British Punk bands of the late seventies and eighties.
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 12:37:05 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 12:39:10 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 15, 2022 12:51:05 GMT -7
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