Grupa Organova Krzysztofa Sadowskiego - Na Kosmodromie (Pronil 1971)

First post here is a nice little find i did on a recent trip to Poland. This is Krzysztof Sadowskiego's group "Grupa Organova" with the LP entitled "Na Kosmodromie" from 1971.
Heavy spaced out cosmo-jazz on the title track that stretches over 20 minutes and occupies the whole A-side. The piece starts out with dreamy, haunting vocals, flutes and some really nice hammond playing from Krzysztof himself and when you least expect it, the whole thing burst out in a heavy jazz-funk jam. The B-side kick off with another killer tune entitled "Alfa Centaura", heavy backbeat driven funk with trumpet, sax and hammond solos and the psyched out high pitched vocals adds a nice vibe to the theme. Rest of the B-side is more straight jazz style but there's no really weak tracks on this LP.
No reissuies as far as I've seen. Highly recommended!

Wykonawcy:

Krzysztof Sadowski - Hammond organ
Liliana Urbanska - vocal, flute
Eddie Engels - trumpet
Wlodzimerz Nahorny - alto sax, piano
Pawel Dabrowski - bass guitar
Josef Gawrych - conga
Tomasz Butowtt - drums



Here's Krzysztofs own words about the LP from the back sleeve:

The title piece of this album is a 20-minute long suite dedicated to the Earth and to the Cosmos. It consists of six parts, each one having no beginning and no end; but all of them make a homogeneous whole. The mighty and still so mysterious Universe is illustrated by the melody full of peace, inner order and dignity. The opening of the piece brings the dreams and endeavours of a contemporary human being; dreams of escaping the earth. The middle part of the composion is dedicated to the Earth that keeps us all together with our troubles, anxiety and ignorance, with our life full of questions, strain and tragedies. Our Earth is a Cosmodrome from wich we will take off to search for new worlds and better future...
Every one of the soloist participating in this session aimed to express his own ideas. I belive we got on quite well. Therefore Liliana Urbanska's flute part displays a strong feeling of lyricism; the solo of the Dutch reumpeter Eddie Engels is loaded with stormy dynamics, and Wlodzimierz Nahorny's improvisations reveal that the absurdity and sort of aimless of our attempts to escape from the Earth to the Cosmos, wich is stillunknown, but..could it really be better than the Earth?
This cosmos is also illustrated in my improvisations in wich I utilize all the sound possibilities offered by my Hammond organ. The bridge between the first part of the and its B-side is a tune entitled "Alpha Centauri", a "cosmic" piece - both in its title and character. Then follows Wlodzimierz Nahorny's "You Feel Like Laughing But I Don't", a number known from the Jazz Jamboree '70. The next piece is a composition by our Dutch guest Eddie Engels entitled "Straight Life". The two final tracks of the record were composed by me: "Dalarna" (Dalarna is the name of the Norwegian (Swedish; editors note) province wich brings us a lot of memories), and well known "Blues X" in a new arrangement with all the sound tricks of Hammons organ and miscellaneous electronic devices. So here is my new record.

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