From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V8 #17 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, February 24 2003 Volume 08 : Number 017 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Perfect ["K. S." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:11:57 +0000 From: "K. S." Subject: Re: Perfect Hello, Finally I have found some time to translate an article about Perfect that Leslie found quite a long time ago. There are quite big rumour on the list considering Basia's appearance on Perfect and Alibabki albums. I can say that she was saying in one interview on polish TV that she considers Alibabki to be her school of life as a singer. That she has learnt everything there, how to make a make-up, sing in choirs in harmony, although she was not singing to long time there she says she liked it very much and she thinks that group was very proffessional. They had a rehersals and were always well prepeared, she joked that it was a kind of scout group. While she was in Alibabki the group was giving many concerts firstly in Eastern Germany and than in USSR. Sometimes they were giving two concerts a day and as I said she finds it to be very good school of singers life. I may search something in articles that I was cutting out of newspapers during 1994 and 1995 when she came with Sweetest Illusion World Tour and there was quite loud about her. Below article. Cheers Krystyna The group was established in 1977 in Warsaw. Initially the group were: drummer Wojciech Morawski (before in Breakout), Zdzislaw Zawadzki  bass, vocalists: Basia Trzetrzelewska and Ewa Konarzewska, Pawel Tabaka  keyboard. Soon singing guitarrist Zbigniew Holdys Joined the group. The first steps of Perfect were playing in pubs / restaurants in Warsaw and USA  for American Polonia at name that was telling very much"Perfect Super Show And Disco Band". First Rock compositions  What happened with Magda K.?, He is not here or There is no tomb of Rock and Roll Perfect has recorded at the end ot the 70, but they apperared on a longplay only just 10 years later. Vocalist at that times were Holdys, Grzegorz Markowski took his place at the microfone in Autumn 1980 (before he was singing at Theater Na Targowku and Warsaw hotels Victoria and Europejski). The turning point in Perfects biography was year 1981. The group was giving concerts in all Poland, and appeared on festival in Jarocin, Rock Areena in Poznan and Rock Jamboree in Sala Kongresowa (name of concert hall) in Warsaw. They have published their first record and on it between others: We want to be ourselves, Something is happening in my poor head, Bla bla bla, Dont cry Ewka. At the end of 1982 the group published record Live, and all Poland was listening to Autobiography. This song became the hymn of Rock youth that is singing it until today (I can say it is truth, almost everybody in Poland knows this song). At the top of its fame the group finished the activity. It was March of 1983. Than Holdys was trying to achieve success in other groups, Markowski was establishing his own bands  both of them without any significant result. As Perfect they enterd again to the scenesin 1987. They have given 3 big very good concerts. On the last on  in Warsaw  tickets confirmed with certificate for concert in 2000 were given, but this was never realised... Another resurection of Perfectwas in the 90, firstly still with Holdys, than without him. The group was giving quite many concerts abroad, in Poland during concerts there were sometimes appearing Czeslaw Niemen or Krzysztof Cugowski. 20 years after their first record  titled Perfect  the group has published album Perfect  symphonically, with Polish Radio Orchestra. There is also another album ready  titles Stairs, 13 premiere songs. Serious, nostalgic, bitterly  joyfull, perfect  this is what Grzegorz Markowski is saying about Stairs. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V8 #17 **************************