TYMON & THE TRANSISTORS

TYMON & THE TRANSISTORS got together in Olecko in the picturesque lake district of Mazury, where Tymanski held his annual guitar workshop. The initial line-up consisted of bassist Radek Skrodzki and Galazka brothers, Marcin on guitar and Filip on drums, the sons of a local poet and bard Marek Galazka. In April 2003 Skrodzki was substituted by Tomasz "Kvajah" Szymborski, the member of Sopot's BIAFRA and THE PLEMNIORS. In June 2006 TYMON & THE TRANSISTORS' rhythm section joined the newly reactivated legendary BRYGADA KRYZYS, one of the first Polish alternative rock bands. The quartet toured Poland, Germany and Latvia, polishing their early repertoir. In July 2003 they entered Tymanski's studio to record Wojtek Smarzowski's "The Wedding" soundtrack, illustrating one of the most important movies of the new decade. The songs from the album of the same title were a conceptual sybling to KURY's "P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S", being a miscellaneous collection of mock-wedding repertoir ranging from 60'-like pastiches, absurd rock'n'rollers, vernacular ballads and robust bedtime crooners, the music covering the whole span of styles from the Beatles and the Clash to Beck. The movie, in which Tymanski played a role of a bandleader, tells a story of a dramatic wedding night; the heroes drown their petty-mindedness, cunning, bigotry and parsimony in hectoliters of vodka against the setting of raw, blood-sucking early-capitalist landscape. "The Wedding" was broadly commented and lavishly awarded with lots of trophys (6 awards of the Gdynia Film Festival and 7 awards of the Polish Film Academy). The record featured a few Polish prominent alternative scene artists including Lech Janerka, Robert Brylewski (BRYGADA KRYZYS, IZRAEL, ARMIA) and SCIANKA's Jacek Lachowicz, the latter one playing the role of the keyboardist in the movie. At present TYMON & THE TRANSISTORS are working on their next album called "Don't Panic! We're From Poland", to be published by BIODRO RECORDS in December 2006. The music will be totally serious this time. Brutal hard rockers dominate the new record; two numbers are reggae-oriented, the oher two songs are intimate ballads. Almost half the collection is sung in English, a recuperating tendency in Tymanski's lyrics. The very interesting work has been performed by Piotr Pawlak, one of the most charismatic producers in the Polish alternative music circle.