PAMIęć

Having reached a point, where their sound had become recognizable and their fame was contstantly on the rise, SBB would move on to one of their most ambitious recordings.As with their debut, the entitled ''Pamiec'' work was recorded at the studios of Polskie Nagrania, apparently during the autumn of 1975, and released ther same year by the eponymous label.

''Pamiec'' contains only three tracks of stretched, Heavy/Psych/Fusion, where the synth experiments of Jozef Skrzek still meet with the vintage sound of the Hammond organ for a highly original and inventive style, played with drumming accuracy and a balanced execution with guitars, bass and keyboards performing in equal doses.The two compositions of the opening side, clocking at around 10 min. each, are both nice examples of SBB's genuine mood with synthesizers and Hammond organ as the leading instruments over the solid rhythm section and the careful guitar work of Anthimos.The music ranges from almost spacey underlines with poetic singing and slow paces to bombastic rhythms, featuring jazzy guitar moves and nervous but mellow synth backgrounds.The influences appear to come from Jazz, Blues and Heavy/Psych Rock, but the overall result is grounbreaking to say the least with a style of its own.The 20-min. long ''Pamiec w kamien wrasta'' on the flipdside is not dissimilar to the previous material.It just gets too long,because the first few minutes are delivered under a hypnotic mood with smooth organ/synth lines and wordless voices to lead into another grandiose offering by the trio, based on dreamy keyboards, including some electric piano, smooth guitar work and crying vocals.After the middle there are plenty of complex instrumental parts with series of changing keyboards and haunting grooves and the atmosphere becomes rather psychedelic with alternating Heavy and Space Rock themes, showered by jazzy, loose solos.

SBB appear to become more mature with each released album.''Pamiec'' finds them in one of their best forms, delivering a nice style with jazzy, psychedelic and Heavy Rock sources of inspiration.Great work, strongly recommended...3.5 stars.