Tag Archives: The Plastic People

A genre-bending and occasionally politically charged Polish rock and roll collective that skillfully navigates the disparate worlds of punk, jazz, fresh influx, psych and very difficult rock and roll, Kult was formed in Warsaw in 1982 around mastermind Kazik Staszewski (saxophone, business lead vocals), Piotr Wieteska (bass), Tadeusz Bagan (guitars), …

Czechoslavakian post-punk group Pulnoc emerged through the ashes from the Plastic material Folks of the World, the renowned underground art rock and roll unit shaped by bassist Milan Hlavsa only weeks following the country’s 1968 Communist takeover. Called honoring the Frank Zappa structure “Plastic material People” — the Velvet Underground, …

The Czech rock group Psí Vojáci is among the major acts that were only available in the underground through the Communist regime and became successful following its fall in 1989. The group is certainly dominated by songwriter, vocalist, and pianist Filip Topol, a charismatic personality who shares commonalities with English …