Maanam is a popular Polish rock band, formed by Marek Jackowski, Kora and Milo Kurtis in 1976. Originally an acoustic outfit, the band went electric in 1980, and since then has recorded some of the best selling singles and albums in Poland over the past 25 years.
During the first half of the 1980s Maanam featured a highly energized, guitar-centred post-punk sound. Kora's vocal gymnastics rivaled or bettered other iconoclastic international female pop vocalists of the time, and showcased the consonant Polish language as one perfectly suited to jagged rock sounds. In 1984 Maanam's "Sie ?ciemnia" became the first Polish music video to air on the international MTV. Maanam's sound in the 1980s could be considered a cross between Nina Hagen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Blondie.
Unfortunately for New Wave music fans in the English-speaking world, Maanam recordings are difficult to obtain outside of Central and Eastern Europe.
In the 1990s Maanam acquired a more melodic, and equally catchy, sound.
Discography
- 1980 Maanam
- 1982 O!
- 1983 Night Patrol
- 1984 Nocny Patrol
- 1984 Totalski No Problemski
- 1984 Kminek dla dziewczynek
- 1985 Wet Cat
- 1985 Mental Cut
- 1987 The Best Of...
- 1988 Live
- 1989 Sie sciemnia
- 1991 The Singles Collection
- 1991 Derwisz i anio?
- 1992 The Best Of - Czerwie?
- 1992 The Best Of - B??kit
- 1992 The Best Of - Fiolet
- 1992 The Best Of
- 1992 The Best Of Kora & Maanam - volumne I & II
- 1993 Maanamania
- 1994 Ró?a
- 1995 Ballady
- 1996 ?ó?ko
- 1997 Rockandrolle
- 1998 Klucz
- 2000 Hotel Nirvana
- 2000 Live
- 2004 Znaki szczególne
External links
Polish musical groups
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