Post by pieter on Sept 15, 2006 4:32:28 GMT -7
Since I am not very often in Poland, I do not have a view on present day Poland. As a teenager I got a Polish record of the band Turbo of a friend of my mother, who knew I liked hard rock music. I searched in Poland for records myself too in 1988 and bought a record of Papa Dance (1987; light computerised disco) and Marek & Vacek, who had a modernised version of Cassical music played with modern instruments.
I remember going out with Dutch, German and Dutch-Polish and German-Polish students of the art academy of Arnhem in Kraków in april 2004, and we really enjoyed it there. They had good New Wave music of the eightees (the Cure, New Order, The Pretenders) and other dancable music, some boy's and girls were dressed in the Black new wave stile of the eightees, girls with black hair and black make up (really cool), and the were even older guys dancing on that music. They had (ironically) nostalgic pictures of cars and products of the eventees and eightees hanging on the wall, like the Polish cars of that time ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_car_factory ) and other things. There was really an eightees atmosphere which made me both nostalgic, melancholic and happy. It was the atmosphere I when I went out as a teenager and early student in Amsterdam.
Turbo is a polish heavy/thrash metal band formed in 1980 by Henryk Tomczak. They gained renown after releasing their first LP entitled "Dorosle Dzieci" ("Mature Children"), which was a big innovation on the polish rock scene. Turbo is best known with 2 albums - "Kawaleria Szatana" ("Satan's Cavalry") and "Ostatni Wojownik" ("The Last Warrior). Their early works are classified as heavy metal, but later they shifted to thrash and returned to pure heavy in the end. After releasing the album "Dead End" and a live album "Alive!" the musicians decided to split up and only release "Best Of" compilations. In 2000 the band reunited, released two albums (Awatar ["Avatar"] in 2001 and Tozsamosc[/b ["Identity"] in 2004) but after that they split up again and focused on their individual projects.
www.turbo.art.pl/turbo/servlet/Index
About Marek & Vacek in German; ska-showbiz.de/artists/marek/marek_g.htm
In Polish: www.polishmusic.ca/skok/cds/polskie/grupy/m/marek_wa/marek_wa.html
Papa dance: (In Polish)
www.papadance.nazwa.pl/index1.php
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Dance
I just found this about present day Polish music (after 1989).
Contemporary music in Poland
Poland has always been a very open country to new music genres and even before the fall of the communism music styles like rock, metal, jazz, electronic, and New Wave were well-known. Since 1989, the Polish scene has exploded with new talents and a more diverse style. Contrary to most European countries, pop music is not dominant in Poland. It is completely overshadowed by rock and, to a lesser degree, by hip hop. Alternative music styles, such as black metal, gothic rock, trip hop, EBM, and post-rock, are also popular.
Poland has also two indigenous styles of popular music: sung poetry and disco polo. The latter is completely ignored by the mainstream media, while the former has its own radio stations and TV channels.
Poland is a huge producer of hip hop music, which is usually most popular in large urban centres. Rock is usually more dominant in smaller cities and rural areas, but rock radio stations are by far the most listened to radio stations in Poland. Every year, a huge gathering of young Poles meet to celebrate the rock and alternative music in Jarocin or ?ary. These events often attract more than 250,000 people and are comparable to the gatherings in Woodstock and Roskilde.
Poland has a very active underground Extreme Metal Music Scene. Some of the bands that have heralded and helped the cause are Vader, Behemoth, Yattering, Decapitated, Graveland, Baphomets Throne , and Dissenter. This has paved ground for a large underground movement. One of the biggest record labels of death metal in Poland is Empire Records.
I remember going out with Dutch, German and Dutch-Polish and German-Polish students of the art academy of Arnhem in Kraków in april 2004, and we really enjoyed it there. They had good New Wave music of the eightees (the Cure, New Order, The Pretenders) and other dancable music, some boy's and girls were dressed in the Black new wave stile of the eightees, girls with black hair and black make up (really cool), and the were even older guys dancing on that music. They had (ironically) nostalgic pictures of cars and products of the eventees and eightees hanging on the wall, like the Polish cars of that time ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_car_factory ) and other things. There was really an eightees atmosphere which made me both nostalgic, melancholic and happy. It was the atmosphere I when I went out as a teenager and early student in Amsterdam.
Turbo is a polish heavy/thrash metal band formed in 1980 by Henryk Tomczak. They gained renown after releasing their first LP entitled "Dorosle Dzieci" ("Mature Children"), which was a big innovation on the polish rock scene. Turbo is best known with 2 albums - "Kawaleria Szatana" ("Satan's Cavalry") and "Ostatni Wojownik" ("The Last Warrior). Their early works are classified as heavy metal, but later they shifted to thrash and returned to pure heavy in the end. After releasing the album "Dead End" and a live album "Alive!" the musicians decided to split up and only release "Best Of" compilations. In 2000 the band reunited, released two albums (Awatar ["Avatar"] in 2001 and Tozsamosc[/b ["Identity"] in 2004) but after that they split up again and focused on their individual projects.
www.turbo.art.pl/turbo/servlet/Index
About Marek & Vacek in German; ska-showbiz.de/artists/marek/marek_g.htm
In Polish: www.polishmusic.ca/skok/cds/polskie/grupy/m/marek_wa/marek_wa.html
Papa dance: (In Polish)
www.papadance.nazwa.pl/index1.php
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Dance
I just found this about present day Polish music (after 1989).
Contemporary music in Poland
Poland has always been a very open country to new music genres and even before the fall of the communism music styles like rock, metal, jazz, electronic, and New Wave were well-known. Since 1989, the Polish scene has exploded with new talents and a more diverse style. Contrary to most European countries, pop music is not dominant in Poland. It is completely overshadowed by rock and, to a lesser degree, by hip hop. Alternative music styles, such as black metal, gothic rock, trip hop, EBM, and post-rock, are also popular.
Poland has also two indigenous styles of popular music: sung poetry and disco polo. The latter is completely ignored by the mainstream media, while the former has its own radio stations and TV channels.
Poland is a huge producer of hip hop music, which is usually most popular in large urban centres. Rock is usually more dominant in smaller cities and rural areas, but rock radio stations are by far the most listened to radio stations in Poland. Every year, a huge gathering of young Poles meet to celebrate the rock and alternative music in Jarocin or ?ary. These events often attract more than 250,000 people and are comparable to the gatherings in Woodstock and Roskilde.
Poland has a very active underground Extreme Metal Music Scene. Some of the bands that have heralded and helped the cause are Vader, Behemoth, Yattering, Decapitated, Graveland, Baphomets Throne , and Dissenter. This has paved ground for a large underground movement. One of the biggest record labels of death metal in Poland is Empire Records.