tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8211085746565504004.post5248494536492352140..comments2024-02-25T13:05:50.077-07:00Comments on Unencumbered Music Reviews: Sfinx - Lume Alba + Sfinx (EP). 1974-1975 RomaniaPurple Peak Recordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215603944746407312noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8211085746565504004.post-77093194123348605382016-08-07T15:55:52.431-06:002016-08-07T15:55:52.431-06:00You could be right; keep them happy with a few scr...You could be right; keep them happy with a few scraps. Or perhaps they just weren't very consistent. I was reading the liner notes from one of the Niemen box sets where he mentions he was banned from the Opole festival in 1970 (only to perform to a packed audience at the same venue the next day, haha). But then they allowed him to go to the US a few years later to record three albums in English!<br /><br />Certainly in the case of Niemen his popularity could also have played a role. If they'd come down too hard on him, who knows what would've happened...<br /><br />And I was just thinking: Niemen regularly used poems from the 19th century Polish greats (Norwid, Słowacki) on his later albums, which must've scored him some brownie points for patriotism, although I'm sure that wasn't his goal :-)bas janssenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000121768325740491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8211085746565504004.post-30434911418988031492016-08-04T16:21:26.384-06:002016-08-04T16:21:26.384-06:00It definitely makes you want to cry knowing full w...It definitely makes you want to cry knowing full well that Eastern Europe would have been a waterfall of great music during that era, if it not for the "ever present authorities". And the GDR were one of the worst. But, yea, there seemed to be a few artists they let slide, like Niemen in Poland, Modry Efekt in Czechoslovakia, and Stern Meissen (who they even procured a mellotron for!). I always figured it was a "Sergeant Schultz" type effect (if you get the reference from Hogan's Heroes), where a little food, drink, and other luxuries were used to distract/bribe.Purple Peak Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06735592038872524224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8211085746565504004.post-13724169782739534352016-08-04T14:13:09.183-06:002016-08-04T14:13:09.183-06:00To quote my own comment on the Baumann/Koek post: ...To quote my own comment on the Baumann/Koek post: "Think of all the great music that was never recorded, let alone released, for financial reasons..." We can now add "for political reasons" to that.<br /><br />Sometimes I'm surprised, though, by the things people got away with. Take Stern Combo Meissen's Die Sage for example. Thinly veiled (and I mean wafer thin) criticism of the oppressive regime. How on earth did that get past the GDR censors? OK, they called it a saga/legend, but surely nobody fell for that one, did they?bas janssenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000121768325740491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8211085746565504004.post-32987217490334372312016-08-04T08:37:34.018-06:002016-08-04T08:37:34.018-06:00Hi Sosgotcha - This is not a download site. Just r...Hi Sosgotcha - This is not a download site. Just reviews here. Thanks for reading though!Purple Peak Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06735592038872524224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8211085746565504004.post-58508577817504050972016-08-04T04:29:06.926-06:002016-08-04T04:29:06.926-06:00Hi please could you send me the link at :
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