Czesław Niemen - Mourner's Rhapsody

Illustration by Niemen.
© 1993 N&N Records

Originally released in 1975, this is the first release on a CD.
But tracking order has been changed. Tracks 8 & 9 are bonuses not on original LP release.
Additionally the title composition (Mourner's Rhapsody) has been reconstructed as follows:
Original composition on LP has been shortened (15:00 -> 12:35) by cutting an instrumental part (~1'30") in organ, and a part (~1'15) sung by a choir with dramatic rhythm by drums out. Track 1 (Prelude) is a newly created music with sythesizers but used the cut choir part from track 2.

Mourner's Rhapsody is based on a poem by one of the Greatest Polish poets Cyprian Kamil Norwid.
At the beginning of the title composition there is a part sung by a choir in Latin language.

Track 2 (Mourner's Rhapsody) is a new and an English language version of the composition entitled Bema pamięci żałobny – rapsod (Threnody in the memory of Bem) on Niemen's album called Enigmatic (1969). This original composition is the whole A side of the original Polish LP release.
Track 4 (I Search For Love) is an English language version of the song Cztery ściany świat (Four Walls are the World) originally released on Niemen's Aerolit album (1975). The original song is the A1 on LP release of Aerolit album.

Digital mastering by Czesław Niemen, N.AE. Studio Warsaw 1993
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