Gold Collection


The rigid Asian Pal was created in 1986 in Chrzanów. The founders were guitarist and songwriter Jarosław Kisiński and keyboards singer Leszek Nowak. More musicians joined quite quickly: bassist Paweł Nazimek, drummer Janusz Deda, conga player Zbigniew Ciaputa and guitarist Andrzej Turek. The group was founded to... go on holiday to the sea and play on the streets. However, the musicians sent a cassette to the competition of the Jarocin Rock Musicians Festival and qualified them. At the time, the career of the Asian Rigid Pal took on lightning-fast pace as he was a party sensation finding his place in the "golden ten" (unofficially second place). Anti-system song Our reggae, with the already legendary chorus "You must not soar too high..." today, was one of the anthems of the most independent party of the 1980s. The rigid Pal of Asia then became a big star, capturing listeners with unpretentious though often metaphorical lyrics and songs on the borderline of rock and pop music, sometimes played with punk feisty and sometimes resembling a student song.

And that was the band's debut album Europe & Asia, which came out in... three different covers. It was originally published by the 'Together' Record Club, organised by the popular '80s 'Together' monthly, which brought together five thousand randomly selected readers. However, the record's release was just over six thousand as the surplus was... a payment for the band. The 'Together' Record Club resold the license to Wifon, who released it on cassette and disc, and provided both labels with two different covers. It was a unique record, one of the best of the 1980s, and more than half of the songs became hits. The Biggest - Encounter with... and The Tower of Joy, the Tower of Loneliness, which reached the very top of Marek Niedźwiecki's prestigious Programme III Charts in those years, becoming one of the most popular Polish songs in the history of the list for many years. Saxophonist Ryszard Wojciul, another member of the band, already participated in the recording

By 1988, the Asian Rigid Pal had rolled almost all over Poland performing at the most important festivals (including Rock Opole, Brodnica and of course Jarocin), as well as being a flagship representative of the National Youth Stage and under this banner did several long tours.

The second album Looking for a New Self did not repeat the success of the first, but brought the big hit I will not change the world, which also reached the very top of Marek Niedźwiecki's list. After recording the album, Nazimek left the group (then played in Boys from Plac Broni, and from 91 in T. Love), Wojciul and Deda, bassist Zbigniew Heflich came, but the band's ratings began to fall. Subsequent albums Emotions and Deviations for the holidays brought neither hits nor publicity, coming across transitional times in Polish phonography related to nascent capitalism. The 1986-1994 collection did better, where the band decided to re-record their best songs. This is where Our reggae made its phonographic debut (previously it was only known from the radio version). However, after recording the album, one of its pillars - Leszek Nowak , as well as Heflich - left. Kisiński took the place behind the microphone, Grzegorz Kłeczek became the bass guitarist, and the group occasionally toured and spent little. The only manifestations of activity were the recording of music for the film Sara directed by Maciej Ślesicki and the charming song Ty co dnes today, which appeared only on the Merry Christmas compilation (96) and which you will also find on the album... while you are young in us.

Leszek Nowak returned to the Asia Rigid Pole in 2000. It also featured guitarist Waldemar Koterba (for a few months) and bassist Mariusz Ginalski. Already a year later, another album Szpal with Song for B was released, dedicated to the memory of Bogdan Łyszkiewicz, the singer of Boys from Plac Broni (with whom Kisiński played in the second half of the 1980s), tragically died in 2000. The group began to be heard again, in June 2001 in their hometown of Chrzanów the band organized a concert on the occasion of their 15th anniversary. It was attended by former band members and musicians friends (Jerzy Styczyński from Jam and Henryk Baran from Lombard), and in September he went to the United States with concerts. For the next three years he played in the country and began preparing another record.

In 2004, on the day before entering the studio, the roads of Nowak, Ciaputa, Ginalski and Kisiński diverged, and the first three decided to continue under the old name. Koterba became a new member of the Asian Rigid Pala. 2005 the group spent working hard playing autumn tour and preparing for recordings.          

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