![]() It featured guest appearances and songwriting credits from members of Collage. In April 1996, at the first festival of Polish prog rock, the group unveiled its eponymous debut, featuring its now classic tracks "Sanktuarium" and "Ptone." Released by the local label Ars Mundi, the album slowly trickled out of Poland and garnered favorable reviews. Quidam's live shows, fronted by the charismatic Derkowska, gained local fame. At this point the name was changed to Quidam, a Latin word meaning "someone" but here making specific reference to a poem by Kamil Norwid. ![]() Songs grew slightly more complex, but the group still wanted to appeal to wide audiences and thus the music developed around the neo-prog axis of IQ, Camel, and late-period Pink Floyd. The arrival of flutist Ewa Smarzynska provided the impetus to shift the musical direction toward a more symphonic sound. ![]() They were soon joined by keyboardist Zbyszek Florek and cycled through a number of singers until they found Emila Derkowska in 1993. In 1991, guitarist Maciek Meller, bassist Radek Scholl, and drummer Rafal Jermakow, then all 18 and 19 years old, formed the hard rock/blues trio Deep River and began to play bars all around Poland. The angelic voice of singer Emila Derkowska and the group's ample use of flute in its arrangements secured it a respectable place alongside Collage and Abraxas in what has been called the '90s Polish contingent of neo-proggers. Photos by Marta Tłuszcz, Paweł Młodkowski, Paweł Nawrot, Grzegorz Kamiński, Wojciech Tymińskiĭuration: 143mins.Hailing from Poland, the neo-prog group Quidam released its first album in 1996 and quickly won both specialized press and audiences over. Sound mix: Robert Szydło with a little help from QuidamĪrtwork by Michał Florczak with Dagny Janowska (photos) and Piotr Gluzicki (assistance) Michał Florczak - visuals on "Alone Together"įilmed & Recorded at "OSKARD" Konin April 18th 2009Ĭameras: Małgorzata Szyłak, Filip Kabulski, Jaromir Dziewic, Szymon Kluz, Michał Rułka, Yori Fabian, Rafał Wieczorek Mariusz Zi?łkowski - bass guitar, 12-string guitar on "Wish You Were Here" Jacek Zasada - flutes, xaphoon, percussion, bass guitar on "Wish You Were Here", backing vocals Maciek Meller - guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals Zbyszek Florek - keyboards, backing vocals Not So Close (including excerpt from "Hush") (10:48) They Are There To Remind Us (including excerpt from "Riders On The Storm") (11:21)ģ. Not So Close (including excerpt from "Hush") (10:48)ġ. They Are There To Remind Us (including excerpt from "Riders On The Storm") (11:21)ġ0. The Fifth Queen Of Everything (including excerpts from "The Fifth Season", "Queen Of Moulin Rouge" and "Everything's Ended") (12:21)Ĩ. ![]() We Lost (including excerpt from "Walkin' Around The Stormy Bay") (11:14)ħ. One Day We Find (including excerpt from "Red") (8:33)Ħ. Similarly to the designs for Alone Together album, the whole artwork has been created by Michal Florczak, a graduate from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UK.ģ. This is truly one of the most beautiful publications of this kind in Poland. The latter, as well as the box set artwork, deserve a short mention of their own. Speaking of the visual side of the production, the live show was filmed in crisp HD using 7 independent cameras and tastefully and professionally edited by Rafal Wieczorek of Rufio Film studio.Īpart from more than 2-hours long live footage, the DVD includes a couple of extras: a short backstage documentary, a photo gallery and the visuals accompanying live version of "Alone Together." Center stage undoubtedly belongs to Bartek Kossowicz who really puts his heart into the vocals carrying across the whole spectrum of emotions - there is a place for melancholy, longing, raw power and even a bit of irony. The longest-serving band members - Zbyszek Florek (keyboards), Maciek Meller (guitars) and Jacek Zasada (woodwind), supported by a fantastic rhythm section (Mariusz Ziolkowski - bass guitar, and Maciej Wroblewski - drums) recreate here their trademark soundscapes with unmatched ingenuity. But the strength of their performance lies not so much in a question of "what?" but "how?" Never before was the band's sound so natural, spontaneous and full-blooded in a truly rock fashion - qualities brought forward by a superb sound production, especially impressive in 5.1. All rendered flawlessly by the ensemble and their talented guests (Tylda Ciolkosz, a barefoot violinist, and Piotr Rogoz, an incendiary saxophonist). A strong title, and an apt one at that, as it accurately pinpoints the quality flowing through Quidam's latest release: a deluxe DVD and double-CD package documenting a truly outstanding live performance of the band's already well established material along with some intriguing musical surprises.
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