Mona Mur – War­saw LP

Beschreibung

In 1989, befo­re the wall came down, Mona Mur and her pro­du­cer Die­ter Mei­er (“Yel­lo”) came to Pol­and. Under the musi­cal direc­tion of Polish rock star Grze­gorz Ciech­ow­ski (“Repu­bli­ka”) and with renow­ned Polish musi­ci­ans, arran­gers and the War­saw Phil­har­mo­nic Orches­tra, she recor­ded her album WARSAW in ear­ly 1990.

“WARSAW deals with the old topic of love as a mar­gi­nal expe­ri­ence. Why does this intri­gue me? Becau­se this is how I expe­ri­en­ced it at a very young age.
The­re is hard­ly a more rele­vant sub­ject for me as an artist, may­be apart from war.
Both con­front you with the pos­si­bi­li­ty of anni­hi­la­ti­on.” Mona Mur

During six months of pro­duc­tion in War­saw, from Sep­tem­ber 1989 to March 1990, Mona Mur obser­ves his­to­ri­cal chan­ges in Euro­pe and the who­le world. The recor­dings take place at Polish Television’s legen­da­ry stu­dio S4 – 10 songs of gre­at inten­si­ty, three of which are given gen­re-rede­fi­ning orchestra­ti­on by renow­ned com­po­ser and con­duc­tor Krze­si­mir Deb­ski. Pro­du­cer Die­ter Mei­er is enchanted.

But WARSAW faces chal­lenges. Its release does not hap­pen as plan­ned. Mona Mur‘s record com­pa­ny back then, Ger­man RCA, feels the album is not main­stream enough. More illus­trious bidders fol­low, inclu­ding Ste­vo Pear­ce of Some Bizar­re, then the album vanishes.

In 2000, four of Mona Mur‘s songs from WARSAW are cover­ed by Polish sin­ger Katar­zy­na Gro­niec on her album “M??czy?ni“ (SONY). Pro­du­cer: Grze­gorz Ciech­owk­si. The album gets high chart ran­kings, the sin­gle with Mona‘s song “Pain­tings“ (polish: “Dzi?ki za mi?o??”) sells over 70,000 copies.

Soon after, in late 2001, pro­du­cer Gze­gorz Ciech­ow­ski dies sud­den­ly at the age of only 44, under tra­gic cir­cum­s­tances. His work as a musi­ci­an, sin­ger, front­man and rock poet is uni­que in Pol­and. An annu­al memo­ri­al con­cert in the medieval city of Tor­un, as well as seve­ral new inter­pre­ta­ti­ons of the „Repu­bli­ka“ hits keep the memo­ry of „Citi­zen GC“ ali­ve. In 2011, Mona Mur is invi­ted to Tor­un, whe­re she per­forms live with Grze­gorz Ciechowski’s band mem­bers. Final­ly, in 2015, Mona Mur’s album WARSAW is released by Mys­tic Pro­duc­tions, but only on CD and exclu­si­ve­ly in Poland.

01. Pain­tings
02. A Sna­ke Gets In Your Eye
03. Mon Amour
04. The Man On The Satellite
05. El Dorado
06. Go Away
07. Illusions
08. Crazy
09. 120 Tage
10. El Dora­do II