GR v.1
This lineup recorded the LP with a soundtrack for the film " Na calosc " (All The Way"), released by Poljazz in 1986 and sold in a few dozen thousands of copies.
GR v.2
This lineup recorded an unreleased session for Polish Radio Channel 2 .
Never mind a dark shade of post-marshall law reality in Poland and rejection by the mainstream predominated jazz establishment, the band managed succesfully by Edwin Malecki and led by visionary and experimenting keyboardist and composer/producer, broke the limits of jazz idiom and, which is now more evident, preceeded world wave of acid & hip hop jazz, mixing freely ethno, free jazz, funk, hip hop, dub and even...punk rock.
An extensive drum machine programming, interactive use of a huge MIDI controlled synthesizer & module system, ecstatic solos of keyboards, electronically transformed trumpet and saxophone, profound vocals, trance of ethnic drums ( check JC 20 - a suite in memory of John Coltrane ), onomatopoeic rap of an avantgarde poetry (Miron Bialoszewski) as well as deep and creative mixing by Wojtek Przybylski and the leader made the sound of Green Revolution unique and fresh. Heavy, dark bass riffs on detuned bass guitar with metal like guitar solos appeared here ( check "Niebieska apokalipsa" ) - years before Laswell’s experiments in 90- ties!!!
The most mature and creative recordings of the group were done for Polish Radio channel 2 and became sensation shortly after being presented on air - also abroad, when brought by British manager Michael Stoneman to English label - Virgin. Unfortunately, it was not possible to overcome red tape in the rotting communist state’s reality of that time and, despite a great interest, the session has not been released until now.
Finding no support or even a tolerance and facing numerous problems, the group was dismissed/suspended in early 90-ties by the leader who took on composing other genres of music such as ambient, piano solo, contemporary classical and film then... ____________________________________________________________ __________ TRACK INFO
Tracks 1-5 were recorded by GR v.2 in 1987 at M1 studio of Polish Radio, Warsaw.
Track 6 "Niebieska apokalipsa" ("Blue Apocalypse" - here on Myspace as a bonus) was recorded by GR v.1 at Polish Radio Studio Szczecin, 1986 for the film "Na całość" (directed by F.Trzeciak). The entire soundrack was released in 1986 as a LP by Pojazz.
Personnel:
Andrzej Przybielski- tp (1,2,3,4,5,6)
Mariusz Stopnicki-tp (6)
Bronisław Duży-tb (6)
Marek Kazana- as, bs (1,2,3,4,5,6)
Aleksander Korecki- as (6)
Mateusz Pospieszalski-as (6)
Michał Kulenty- ss,ts (3,5)
Wojciech Konikiewicz- keyb, p, drum machine, programming (1,2,3,4,5,6)
Krzysztof Szmigiero- g (1,2,3,4,5,6)
Zbigniew Heflich- b (1,2,4)
Marcin Pospieszalski- b (3,5,6)
Wojciech Czajkowski-double bass (6)
Michał Zduniak- dr (1,6)
Jorgos Skolias- voc (1,2,3,4,5)
All compositions, arrangements, samples, synth & drum machine programming by Wojciech Konikiewicz
Lyrics by Wojciech Konikiewicz (except no.3 -"Sharanagayama" - lyrics by Miron Białoszewski)
sound engineer - Wojciech Przybylski
manager - Edwin Malecki
Polish Radio manager - Ewa Michalowska
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