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Czeslaw Niemen   05/09/1974

Riviera-Remont Club, Warsaw, Poland
Media CD-R   1 disc
Notes is filler on Sublime - 08-17-95
Tech Notes NIEMEN - 41 potencjometr?w Pana Jana
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Tracks
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1. 41 potencjometr?w Pana Jana (41 potentiometers of Mr Jan)
Running Time: 41'58"

Location
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Live at Riviera-Remont club, Warsaw, Poland, May 9, 1974

Quality
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Very good FM recording

Conversion
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FM sampled @ 32 kHz/16 bit -> slight denoising and resampling
to 44.1 kHz using SF6 -> CD-R -> EAC (secure) -> WAV -> FLAC

Band line-up
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Czeslaw Niemen: mellotron, clavinet, moog, voice
Piotr Dziemski: percussion
Jacek Gazda: bass guitar
Jan Bledowski: electric violin
Slawomir Piwowar: guitar

Covers
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included, 300 dpi JPEGS in Polish and English language versions.


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Note
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Czeslaw Niemen (1939-2004) - without any doubts the most important
personality of Polish (so called "popular") music scene. He was here
from the very beginning of rock music in Poland (for political reasons
called "big-beat" in 60-ies) and never stopped looking for new ways of
expressing his creativness. Niemen died this year after long fight
with cancer.

His music came a long way from latino-american cover songs sang with
guitar, through pop-rock, through progressive, jazz-rock and even
experimental music with various groups, to his personal electronic
music played solo with his own "robotestra". But one thing was always
recognizable: his amazing voice.

So if you haven't heard about Niemen yet, here's your chance. "41
potentiometers of Mr Jan" is one long progressive - experimental -
jazz - rock suite with lots of improvisations (and actually with not
that much of Niemen singing, but you'll hear his voice in nice scat
part of the composition). It's never been released and (afaik) never
recorded in studio - version here was recorded live and then edited in
Polish Radio III from over 80 minutes of music (unfortunately recorded
mono). Broadcasted probably only twice in history.

Try it and if you like what you hear, buy some of Niemen's regular
works (probably the most recommended set to start with is: "Strange is
this World", "Ode to Venus", "Marionetki", "Aerolit", "Mourner's
Rhapsody", "Idee Fixe", "Katharsis", "Enigmatic", "Czlowiek jam
niewdzieczny").

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