Breakout (Band)
Breakout was a Polish blues - folk-rock band.
History
Breakout was founded in 1968 in Rzeszów by the members of the band Blackout. Just one year later Breakout landed with the song " Gdybyś Kochal, hey " ( "Love Did you think ... ") on the first place in the Polish charts. The song was recorded in the folk-rock style and attacked simultaneously influences of Polish folk music. The braiding folkish elements was to make in the former People's Republic of Poland to the popular trick, officially known as "imitation western lifestyle " frowned upon rock music for the censorship acceptable. Among other things, the band Skaldowie and the singer and multi- instrumentalist Czesław Niemen availed themselves of this solution.
The musical style of Breakout was influenced predominantly by the frontman Tadeusz Nalepa and was based on a mixture of blues and folk music with influences of rock music. In addition to a distinctive guitar playing of the music Nalepa was unmistakable by the voice of the singer Mira Kubasińska. Significantly to the artistic sense picture of the band contributed to the evidence adduced in Polish lyrics of the poet Bogdan Loebl. Besides trivial love songs and rhymes based on folk music the texts of Loebl sensitive issues such as environmental degradation treated ( " Takie moje miasto jest " ), corruption, emigration. The text author Loebl has been consistently listed on all LPs of Breakout as a band member.
By 1970, after only one published LP, Escape became the basis of the open non-conformist life and clothing style of the musicians as well as because of the supposedly " pro-Western stance " in the criticism of the communist regime and was occupied for several months with radio and banned from performing. As early as 1971, however, the band released a successful album " Blues".
Breakout published irregularly LPs on the official market of the Republic of Poland and toured internationally including in the GDR and USSR, but also in the Netherlands.
The band broke up officially in 1982. Tadeusz Nalepa continued his solo career continued until his death.