Kalemegdan Disk - ROCK FROM EASTERN EUROPE

Tracklist

Side A

1. Simple Story 3:25
2. Mentalny kot 2:40
3. Lucciola 4:23
4. Dobranoc Albert 4:00
5. Przerwa na papierosa 3:26

Side B

1. Nowy przewodnik 2:43
2. Kreon 3:22
3. You or Me 4:26
4. Kowboje o.k. 4:12
5. Lipstick on the Glass 3:04

Full album at YouTube

Warner Music Poland Release Information

Maanam’s fourth studio album maintained at the highest level and was closing the band’s first classic period. The hits from this album, such as “Simple Story”, “Lucciola” and “Lipstick on the Glass” are melodic, “smoother” and more unpretentious than they were before. There is also room for the relaxed, light instrumental track “Przerwa na papierosa” (Cigarette Break), which gives the impression of a polished jam session piece.

The “Mental Cut” album was created under difficult conditions – the musicians were constantly on the move between Cracow and Berlin. Some tracks, such as “Simple Story” and “You or Me”, were recorded in English, while others are in Polish. But, paradoxically, this captures the specific atmosphere of the time. A time when the communist system was coming to an end and slowly everyone realised that change was coming, a new order that would turn everything upside down.

Guitarist Marek Jackowski: “Those were the days of our trips to Berlin. I remember all the commotion, standing at the border for hours on end, the anxiety over our passports: would we get through or not... This album was influenced by purely personal circumstances, as well as deadlines that simply couldn’t be missed. You could say that, of all our albums, this one is the least polished...”