A sublime set from this hip Polish ensemble – a group who got their start in funky fusion, but who really stretch out here in a more sophisticated space too – mixing some of their electric elements with these really beautiful horn passages – arranged at a level that's full of ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Association PC —
In A Life Machine ... CD GAD/Chickadisc (Poland), 1972. New Copy 2CD ...
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Fantastic unreleased work from this legendary electric combo – a group led by keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof, and one who famously recorded for MPS during the 70s – where they helped push the boundaries of fusion at the time! The lineup here is even bigger than on some of their other ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Zespol Perkusyjny Jerzego Bartza —
Ostryga Pustyni ... CD GAD (Poland), 1969. New Copy ...
Just Sold Out!
A heavily percussive set from the Polish scene at the end of the 60s – music that appears here for the first time as a commercial release, and which has a mix of drums and different instruments that would have been right at home as a late 50s Living Stereo album from RCA! The music has a ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
An obscure Polish date from the great Gustav Brom – the Czech bandleader known for his great grooves for MPS and Supraphon! The styles here are something of a mixed bag – with some tunes that are straight swinging big band, mixed with a few others that show more of the jazz rock ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Fantastic 60s material from the great Gustav Brom – an artist who famously recorded for the MPS/SABA label, but who's already taking off wonderfully here! The album's not the jazz mass you might expect, and instead it really has Brom breaking from some of the straighter styles of his earlier ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Circus —
Movin' On ... CD GAD (Poland), 1977. New Copy ...
$16.9922.99
Killer prog from an overlooked group – one who recorded on the Swiss scene of the mid 70s, but who easily rival some of the greats on the UK scene of the time! The vibe here is nicely unusual – as singer Roland Frei has a quality that's maybe as distinct as that of Peter Hammill – ... (Rock) read moreCD
Krzysztof Cugowski first got his start in the group Budka Suflera, and then worked in a variety of other settings too – so that by the time of this late 70s solo debut, he'd really developed a wonderfully unique vocal style! There's this very offbeat approach to the way that he sings – ... (Rock) read moreCD
The cover looks a bit pastoral, but the grooves here are totally great – funky sound library material from 70s Poland – originally created for a very unusual format! The music here was originally issued only on cassette, as a daily soundtrack for Polish drivers – groovy tunes ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
A killer set of funky tracks from 70s Poland – music that's much hipper and groovier than you might expect – both from the cover art, and from your expectations of that scene at the time! Henryk Debich penned the music, which is then served up by the Polish Radio Orchestra in this ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Very groovy work from the Polish arranger Henryk Debich – sounds that are every bit as funky as his classic String Beat album from the time – and done in a mode that often mixes some of the cooler soundtrack styles of the 70s with a range of styles that move between thoughtful ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Henryk Debich & Orkiestra PRITV Lodz —
Rajd ... LP GAD (Poland), 1980. New Copy ...
About November 30, 2024 (delayed)
Jazzy disco grooves from Henryk Debich and his long-running broadcast orchestra – a group who were well-schooled in jazz modes from years past, and were very able to soar with upbeat rhythms in the latter half of the 70s! The tunes here echo some of the best sound library modes of Western ... (Sound Library) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Jazzy disco grooves from Henryk Debich and his long-running broadcast orchestra – a group who were well-schooled in jazz modes from years past, and were very able to soar with upbeat rhythms in the latter half of the 70s! The tunes here echo some of the best sound library modes of Western ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Krzystof Duda —
Ostinato ... CD GAD (Poland), Early 80s. New Copy ...
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If you like 80s keyboards, you'll find plenty to love here – as Krzystof Duda works on a whole host of classic keys – Arp Axxe, Micromoog, Korg Polysix, Solina String Ensmeble, Hohner Clavinet, and even a bit of Fender Rhodes – used mostly on tunes that just feature Duda himself, ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
A really cool set of electronic work from the Polish scene of the 80s – tracks that were originally only released on cassette, and work in this hip space that's somewhere between keyboard-driven sound library music and some of the better sounds of the ambient underground! The work is more ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Poland's Ergo Band are a tight combo with a great ear for a groove – sometimes funky in sort of an Average White Band way, sometimes a bit harder jamming, like some of their Eastern Bloc contemporaries! And here, they're joined by singer Grzyna Lobaszewska – who sings on a good number ... (Jazz) read moreCD
A killer from the Czech scene of the early 70s – and a set that clearly draws its inspiration from the sound of mid-60s London – especially artists who mix jazz and soul, like Georgie Fame or Zoot Money! The core combo is totally great – with a very R&B-drenched vibe – ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Some of the fiercest work we've ever heard from this legendary Czech fusion outfit – a previously-unreleased live performance from 1980, and one that may well blow away some of their classic studio records from the 70s! The tunes are long, and have a sense of darkness that we're not sure we'v ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Some of the fiercest work we've ever heard from this legendary Czech fusion outfit – a previously-unreleased live performance from 1980, and one that may well blow away some of their classic studio records from the 70s! The tunes are long, and have a sense of darkness that we're not sure we'v ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Maybe the most ambitious album ever from this legendary Czech jazz combo – a set that expands on all these new ideas cooked up by leader Martin Kratochvil, who really opens up the sound, while still keeping all the best fusion elements in place! There's a quality here that's a real evolution ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Wojciech Kilar is posing with an acoustic bass on the cover – and while that instrument is definitely featured here at the bottom of the arrangements, there's also a nice mix of reed instruments that flesh out the sound with all these melancholy tones and colors! The music is partly jazz-base ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Krzysztof Komeda —
Kraksa ... CD GAD (Poland), 1956/Mid 1960s. New Copy ...
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An incredible lost slice of work from the great Krzysztof Komeda – early Polish soundtrack material that resonates perfectly between his modern jazz experiments and some of his more widely-circulated work for film! There's definitely a jazz approach to all of these tracks – that ... (Jazz) read moreCD
A never-issued live set from the legendary Polish pianist Krzysztof Komeda – two long tracks that are very much in the spirit of his groundbreaking album Astigmatic! As with that record, the set features bold trumpet work from Tomasz Stanko – at the time easily one of the most ... (Jazz) read moreCD
One of the greatest modern jazz musicians on the European scene of the 60s – heard here at a moment when his talent was really beginning to burst forth! Pianist Krzystof Komeda is maybe known best to folks on our shore for his soundtrack material – but back in Eastern Europe, he was ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Very moody work from Polish keyboardist Wladyslaw Komendarek – an unreleased album from 1990, and one that features a whole host of Korg, Casio, and Yamaha Keyboards – all creating a dark soundscape that's very much in keeping with the image on the cover! This isn't playful robot music ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Totally groovy sounds from a top-level Polish cop show in the 70s – one that certainly didn't make it to our screens back in the day, but which definitely had a soundtrack to match some of the best American programs of the time! In fact, the style here is maybe more late 60s/early 70s than ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
A weird and wonderful lost soundtrack from Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski – done for a movie that was essentially a children's story, but with a great array of unusual sounds and very cool 80s keyboards! The music is very much in par with some of Korzynski's other classics – and ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Andrzej Korzynski —
Bestia ... CD GAD (Poland), 1978. New Copy ...
Temporarily Out Of Stock
A lost 70s soundtrack from the great Andrzej Korzynski – one that's not nearly as spooky as you might guess from the cover and title – although we can say that it's certainly got some of the keyboard-heavy horror scoring modes that were beginning to crop up on the American and Italian ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Andrzej Korzynski —
Kochaj Albo Rzuc ... LP GAD (Poland), 1977. New Copy ...
Temporarily Out Of Stock
Andrzej Korzynski composed these wonderful tracks for a successful Polish film issued elsewhere under the title Big Deal – but the sounds within are so great on their own, they don't even need a movie to stand as a testament to Korzynski's genius! The composer was easily one of the most ... (Soundtracks) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Music that's a definite "sekrety" to most of us western listeners – as the set brings together some rare and overlooked soundtrack material from the great Polish composer Andrezj Korzynski – served up here in a range of modes that really show him going strong well into the 80s! ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Some of the coolest work we've ever heard from Polish film composer Andrezj Korzynski – material from an important movie from the early 70s, presented here in two different sections of the soundtrack, which were each made for different chapters of the film! The style is wonderfully hard to ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
One of the most haunting scores you'll ever hear for a vampire film – a soundtrack that's moody, open, and extremely evocative! Henryk Kuzniak uses a range of instruments and sounds here – sometimes more familiar elements like vibes, other times more abstracted with effects and ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Henryk Kuzniak —
Seksmisja ... CD GAD (Poland), 1984. New Copy ...
$14.9919.99
Wild work from a Polish comedy of the 80s, but a set that offers way more than you'd expect – sounds that are very different than other European comedic modes of the period! There's a space setting for the film, which allows for some cool electronic bits – but not in the thin, keyboard- ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Henryk Kuzniak —
Seksmisja ... LP GAD (Poland), 1984. New Copy ...
$25.9929.99
Wild work from a Polish comedy of the 80s, but a set that offers way more than you'd expect – sounds that are very different than other European comedic modes of the period! There's a space setting for the film, which allows for some cool electronic bits – but not in the thin, keyboard- ... (Soundtracks) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Never-issued work from one of our favorite Polish jazz musicians of the 60s – vibist Jerzy Milian, an artist whose modern sounds were almost as much an important part of the scene as the piano of Krzystof Komeda! Here, Milian works in two different small groups – one a quartet with the ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Jerzy Milian —
Nemesia ... CD GAD (Poland), Late 70s. New Copy ...
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Some of the funkiest work we've ever heard from the great Polish jazzman Jerzy Milian – working here in the late 70s, and with a larger ensemble too – all in a level that's often got plenty of cop/crime soundtrack influence in the grooves! Milian's vibes are still in the mix somewhere, ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Jerzy Milian —
Nemesia ... LP GAD (Poland), Late 1970s. New Copy ...
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Some of the funkiest work we've ever heard from the great Polish jazzman Jerzy Milian – working here in the late 70s, and with a larger ensemble too – all in a level that's often got plenty of cop/crime soundtrack influence in the grooves! Milian's vibes are still in the mix somewhere, ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Over a decade's worth of music done for a cool Polish cartoon – one that's got the jungle theme that you see on the front, which often results in songs that have a bit of a tropical or bossa vibe! Instrumentation is a mix of acoustic elements and keyboards – often used in these spare, ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Wlodzimierz Nahorny —
Z Tamtej Strony Teczy ... LP GAD (Poland), 1972. New Copy ...
About November 30, 2024 (delayed)
A film soundtrack, but one that represents the pinnacle of Polish jazz experiments at the time – given that the music was composed by the great arranger Wlodzimierz Nahorny, and performed by a group led by the inventive jazzman Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski! The music moves effortlessly between ... (Jazz) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A film soundtrack, but one that represents the pinnacle of Polish jazz experiments at the time – given that the music was composed by the great arranger Wlodzimierz Nahorny, and performed by a group led by the inventive jazzman Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski! The music moves effortlessly between ... (Jazz) read moreCD
Waldemar Parzynski —
Pejzaz Polski ... CD GAD (Poland), 1973. New Copy ...
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Rare soundtrack material from Waldemar Parzynski – maybe best known as the music director for the groundbreaking vocal group Novi Singers, but even more stunning here in an instrumental setting for an obscure documentary! The tracks are all very long – more musical suites than shorter ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Soaring Polish instrumentals from the 70s – sound library work, but very aware of the disco changes taking place in the American mainstream of the time – all of which makes for tunes that often have a sort of funky cop/crime soundtrack vibe overall! The group have clearly heard some of ... (Sound Library) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Poznanska Orkiestra Rozrywkowa PRITV —
Butik (plus bonus tracks) ... CD GAD (Poland), 1976. New Copy ...
Temporarily Out Of Stock
Soaring Polish instrumentals from the 70s – sound library work, but very aware of the disco changes taking place in the American mainstream of the time – all of which makes for tunes that often have a sort of funky cop/crime soundtrack vibe overall! The group have clearly heard some of ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Sweet funky grooves from 70s Poland – material by a radio/TV orchestra, but one who've clearly learned a lot from Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra and some other great American acts of the time! Keyboards, basslines, and tight drums really set the stage for the tunes – so that ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Poznanska Orkiestra Rozrywkowa PRITV —
Magma (with bonus tracks) ... CD Polskie Radio/GAD (Poland), 1978. New Copy ...
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The magma here is plenty hot – cooked up with a blend of funky rhythms and soaring strings – all with a mighty strong nod to disco styles of the time! Yet the music is also a bit more diverse, too – bringing in soaring soundtrack modes, almost creating a cop/crime TV show vibe on ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
Funky sound library instrumentals, done for Polish radio at the end of the 70s – which means they've got a fair bit of disco and club influences thrown into the rhythms for good measure! In fact, there's plenty of tracks here that would be great to drop on a disco dancefloor – although ... (Sound Library) read moreCD
A really cool set from the Polish scene at the start of the 80s – one that's definitely got some of the disco elements promised in the title, but sometimes with an offbeat vibe that's pretty unique! About half the tracks have some familiar disco-styled charts, done at an instrumental level ... (Soul) read moreCD
Soaring sounds from SBB – an all-instrumental session for Polish Radio, and one that really shows off the more fusion-heavy side of their music! All tracks are nice and long – and there's more of a power trio formation in the group – really freewheeling guitar lines that are ... (Rock) read moreCD
(Includes bonus tracks.)
SBB —
Jerzyk ... LP GAD (Poland), 1977. New Copy ...
$26.99About November 30, 2024 (delayed)
Seminal funky rock from 70s Poland – recorded by a hard-jamming group who also had plenty of fusion in the mix! The guitars are clearly in the lead here – strutting out next to some tight and frenetic work on drums – but the album's also got a fair bit of keyboards too, including ... (Rock) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Seminal funky rock from 70s Poland – recorded by a hard-jamming group who also had plenty of fusion in the mix! The guitars are clearly in the lead here – strutting out next to some tight and frenetic work on drums – but the album's also got a fair bit of keyboards too, including ... (Rock) read moreCD
If you're looking for true 70s prog genius, you might well look no further than SBB – a Polish trio who cut records like this, to rival the bigger-known artists in the western European scene! The album's a masterpiece of jazz-inspired creation throughout – three long tracks, all filled ... (Rock) read moreCD
The final sound library set from this legendary Polish group – a hard-hitting prog trio who maybe deliver the goods more here than some of their more commercial contemporaries! As with the rest of the best from SBB, the sound here is as much fusion as it is progressive rock – stretched ... (Rock) read moreCD
SBB —
Przebudzenie ... CD GAD (Poland), 1975/1976. New Copy ...
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Rare radio work by SBB – a legendary Polish trio who easily rivaled the biggest jazz rock groups on the British and German scenes of the 70s! SBB have this great lean sound that's part fusion, part rock – with searing guitar work from Apostolis Antymos, driven by heavy drums from Jerzy ... (Rock) read moreCD
SBB —
Renia ... LP GAD (Poland), New Copy ...
About November 30, 2024 (delayed)
A never-heard live set from the rock/fusion trio that shook the world from behind the Iron Curtain in the 70s – a mostly-instrumental performance recorded for Polish Radio in 1977! We say "mostly", because keyboardist Jozef Skrzek uses some occasional mouth organ next to his usual ... (Rock) read moreCD
(Includes bonus tracks.)
Zdzislaw Szostak —
Pokusa ... CD GAD (Poland), 1960s/Early 1970s. New Copy ...
$14.9919.99
Very obscure film music from Polish composer Zdzislaw Szostak – and very wonderful as well – music that follows a similar stretch to some of the period in which the Czech new wave was really taking off – and delivered with a style that has an equally striking mix of modern modes ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Very obscure film music from Polish composer Zdzislaw Szostak – and very wonderful as well – music that follows a similar stretch to some of the period in which the Czech new wave was really taking off – and delivered with a style that has an equally striking mix of modern modes ... (Soundtracks) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Orkiestra Wojciecha Trzcinskiego —
Muzyka Dla Ciebie ... CD Polskie Nagrania/GAD (Poland), 1977. New Copy ...
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A dreamy set of easy listening from the Polish scene of the 70s – served up by pianist Wojcieh Trzcinski in a nicely varied set of orchestrations! Many of the tunes here have a laidback style that's a warmed-up 70s take on mellow easy modes from the late 60s – orchestrations that are ... (Now Sound) read moreCD
A set that not only features an amazing and well-recorded live set by the early version of Weather Report – but one that also features them joined by a few great European jazz musicians as well! The core of the album has the quintet at their finest – playing in the TV studio featured ... (Jazz) read moreCD
An 80s animated feature from Poland, and one that gets some very cool electronic sounds here – a mix of playful numbers and more eerie tracks that work together perfectly – sometimes with more of a song-based approach, other times a lot more open and abstract! There's a bit of vocals ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
Wislanie 69 —
Skad My Sie Znamy ... CD GAD (Poland), New Copy ...
About November 20, 2024 (delayed)
Really cool music for a bunch of short, animated cartoons – all of them from a single studio in Poland, and done with these sublime sounds that really move past the familiar! These aren't always the whimsical melodies you'd hear in a Warner Brothers cartoon – and there's elements of ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
There's lots of wild electronics here, and plenty of other great sounds too – served up in a host of very cool tracks from a range of short animated features from Poland – not kiddie cartoon music, but work that's often got a very spare and spacey sort of vibe! The set's awash in ... (Soundtracks) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
There's lots of wild electronics here, and plenty of other great sounds too – served up in a host of very cool tracks from a range of short animated features from Poland – not kiddie cartoon music, but work that's often got a very spare and spacey sort of vibe! The set's awash in ... (Soundtracks) read moreCD
A huge amount of work from a festival of music in early 60s Poland – sounds from a time when rock was coming onto the scene, but when jazz also still held on strongly too – all of which makes for a very unusual mix of styles in the music! The vibe here is very different than UK or US ... (Rock) read moreCD