Ode to Venus
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Ode to Venus - Second Niemen's English-language album recorded in 1973. Album was released in West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 by CBS (European section of Columbia Records
Columbia Records
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). Record was done with notable help of Józef Skrzek
Józef Skrzek
Józef Skrzek – is a Polish multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer, an important figure in Polish rock.-Life:In his early carrier, Skrzek was associated with the groups Ślężanie, Ametysty and Breakout...

 of SBB.

Track listening

  1. "Ode to Venus" - 6:37 (lyrics Czesław Niemen)
  2. "Puppets" - 4:38 (lyrics Cyprian Kamil Norwid)
  3. "From the First Major Discoveries" - 9:33 (lyrics Leszek Aleksander Moczulski)
  4. "What Have I Done" - 5:43 (lyrics Bolesław Leśmian)
  5. "Fly Over Fields of Yellow Sunflowers" - 4:02 (lyrics Paweł Brodowski)
  6. "What a Beautiful Woman You Are" - 4:20 (lyrics Paweł Brodowski)
  7. "A Pilgrim" - 4:09 (lyrics Cyprian Kamil Norwid)
  8. "Rock for Mack" - 2:04 (instrumental)

All lyrics translated to English by Paweł Brodowski.

Personnel

  • Czesław Niemen - vocal, flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Józef Skrzek
    Józef Skrzek
    Józef Skrzek – is a Polish multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer, an important figure in Polish rock.-Life:In his early carrier, Skrzek was associated with the groups Ślężanie, Ametysty and Breakout...

     - organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

    , electric piano
    Electric piano
    An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...

    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , clarinet
    Clarinet
    The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

    , harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

    , violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

  • Antymos Apostolis - guitar
    Guitar
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  • Jerzy Piotrowski - drums
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