Ode to Venus

Ode to Venus
Studio album by Czesław Niemen
Released	1973
Studio	Musicland Studios
Genres	Experimental rock art rock
Length	41:06
Label	CBS (LP)
Producers	Czesław Niemen, Rüdiger Waldmann
Czesław Niemen chronology
Strange Is This World (1972) Ode to Venus (1973) Niemen Vol. 1 and Niemen Vol. 2 (1973)

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Ode to Venus is the second full-length album recorded by Niemen. It was released in Germany by European part of Columbia, and was created with notable help of Reinhold Mack and SBB.

Track listing

1. "Ode to Venus" - 6:37 (lyrics: Czesław Niemen)
2. "Puppets" - 4:38 (lyrics: Cyprian Kamil Norwid)
3. "From the First Major Discoveries" - 9:33 (lyrics: Leszek Aleksander Moczulski)
4. "What Have I Done" - 5:43 (lyrics: Bolesław Leśmian)
5. "Fly Over Fields of Yellow Sunflowers" - 4:02 (lyrics: Paweł Brodowski)
6. "What a Beautiful Woman You Are" - 4:20 (lyrics: Brodowski)
7. "A Pilgrim" - 4:09 (lyrics: Norwid)
8. "Rock for Mack" - 2:04 (instrumental)

• All Polish to English lyric translations by Paweł Brodowski.

Personnel

• Czesław Niemen - vocal, flute, keyboards
• Józef Skrzek - organ, electric piano, bass, clavinet, harmonica, violin
• Apostolis Anthimos - guitar
• Jerzy Piotrowski - drums

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