Rau – “The specific entertainment” – cgm.pl

The deadly independence rookie.

The fact that Thomas “Rau” Rałowski is Man-Orchestra, we have already convinced. For a long time, the manufacturer remained, however – as is often the case in Poland, with manufacturers – in the shade. He took care of the soundtrack in some television programs. He played in bands, which remained in a deep underground. When he went to a major label, Alkopoligamii, first as the author of sleepers for other performers (This type of Mes, Zetenwupe), and later as an independent contractor. In the end, it’s time to solo. Very etosową, he created one hundred percent independently from the cover, the music, and the lyrics and performed the ending.

This last decision not to decide on any cooperation, it was as much courage as risky. In the end, like Rau it recorded popular music, but it’s hard to imagine that broke it wider. Primers, of course, have the potential. And I do not mean only the potential of a dignified tasteful snob, though perhaps to such a group this material eventually will. The thing is that the bits in the singles – “I do not sleep because I keep level” and “paper Manie” – would appeal to even less wprawionemu ear. The first combines a clear pulse of the club dance floor with doped atmosphere of the toilet in the same club. When the chorus are pressing synthesizers and vocals decreases, the man knows that such a brutal it was from the very beginning of written language. “Paper Man” is lighter, California. That kind of DJ Quik? But what immediately squander nickname known only to selected? Suffice it to recall even the “Party” Beyonce.
   
   
   
   

Who thinks that, in accordance with the title of this type of entertainment numbers will debut Rau’s more, this will feel satisfied to a certain extent. True, “Part Time No Life” and “Bic funny” is another alternative hits. But this is actually the end. Even “The enormity of pogrom” signals another, more serious side of the album. Here, the host does not care only about the specific entertainment, but also raises a number of specific questions – about the global processes of social ecology. It happens that teaches coffee on the bench, as in “Earth” or more enigmatically says ( “Big Evil”, “Poison”).
   
   
   
   

   
   
   
   

I appreciate the commitment, although not really hear them. Dispassionate, even bored vocals Rałowskiego as-tako works in zabawniejszych numbers. Then you may be a little flashy, urban observer in the style of Taco Hemingway (which, by the way, is divided indifference in his voice), and a little clown in the style of Small Towns (this road, but I do not recommend), but his phlegmatic style, and so in the end kills the pugnacity these recordings. When, however, becomes more seriously, it falls grotesquely. Tracks catch weight, the host at all can not carry. The topics under which his workshop is not tailored.
   
   
   
   

Finally, “The specific entertainment” leaves with the feeling that these bits could be used better. Invite colleagues from the label, and everyone (well, almost) would have a greater purpose – or at least wrote the chorus more interesting than most here (trio “The enormity of pogrom”, “Mieczyslaw Fog” and “Dekadentysta” cries to heaven for vengeance). I am sorry, because from the side of the producer is a really fantastic job. Manifest themselves wide horizons host sensitivity to detail and the ability of selection. It is a pity that prevailed ambitions and the desire to record fully independent material.