Niemen, Czesław
Katharsis

  • Format: LP
  • Band: Niemen, Czesław
  • Title: Katharsis
  • Band's Origin: PL
  • Style: Avant-garde, instrumental
  • Rating: 2
  • Release Year: 2018
  • Recording Year: 1975
  • Production Year: 1975?/2018
  • Record Company: Warner Music Poland
  • Item's Number: 01902 9 57004 4 7 / SXL 1262
  • Color of the Label: blue
  • Edition: 2018
  • Extras: 180 gram vinyl, inner sleeve
  • EAN: 0190295700447
  • Weight: 280 g
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  • Cover: new

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The album “Katharsis” was to sound completely different. It was to be recorded as a duet with the barely 22-year-old percussionist Piotr Dziemski, who had played with Czesław Niemen on the album Aerolit. On 29 March 1975, the young musician died. It was then that Niemen decided to record everything himself and to create a concept-album dealing with the pitfalls of the development of civilisation based on a science-fiction story with strongly philosophical accents.

For the recordings, Czesław Niemen used, among others, Minimoog and Synthi EMS synthesisers and a mellotron. He also used harpsichord, guitar and percussion instruments and flutes.

The author of the lyrics of “Z listu do M.” (From a letter to M.) and “Epitafium” (Epitaph) is Czesław Niemen. The pieces “Planeta Ziemia” (Planet Earth), “Fatum” (Fate) and “Katharsis” provided the musical illustration for Juliusz Słowacki’s play “Mindowe” directed by Bernard Ford Hanaoka.

Tracklist



Side A


1. Odkrycie nowej galaktyki / Discovery of a New Galaxy
2. Mleczna droga / The Milky Way
3. Planeta Ziemia / The Planet Earth
4. Fatum / Fate
5. Pieczęć / The Seal

Side B


1. Z listu do M. / From a Letter to M.
2. Próba ucieczki / An Attempt to Escape
3. Katharsis / Katharsis
4. Epitafium / Pamięci Piotra / An Epitaph / In Memory of Piotr