OSSIAN / OSJAN

Indo-Prog/Raga Rock • Poland

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The origins of Osjan (the name derives from a fictional character from a poem by Bolesław Leomian. The musicians slighly changed spelling to 'Ossian' but when they later found out there was a scottish band of the same name then they returned to the original spelling) date early 70s when two former members of ANAWA (a band mostly known from playing with Marek Grechuta), namely Jacek Ostaszewski and Marek Jackowski, met with Tomasz Hołuj. At the beginning the band was highly influenced by indian music. You could also trace some avant-garde and folk touch. In 1975 Marek Jackowski abandoned the band in order to form a rock band Maanam with a percussionist Milo Kurtis who was later invited by the remaining members of Ossian to work for the band.
In 30 years time span the lineup and instrumentarium frequently changed. The band also collaborated with many guest musicians like prominent polish jazzmen Tomasz Stańko and Paweł Jastrzębski, Apostolis Anthimos from SBB, legendary trumpeter Don Cherry, a shaman from the Cheronee tribe and others.
Osjan's music is combined of elements of musical cultures from many parts of the world such as aforementioned indian music, african, arabia, far east and south american indian folklore which meet with jazz and classical music influences.
But the factor that occupies the central place in Osjan's music is rhythm - the most primordial and present in every musical culture element.
Ossian is regarded the pioneer of so called world music in Poland but in reality the music of Osjan doesn't explore nor utilise any ethnicality. It simply stands beyond any ethnicality, stylistics or genre affinity because the goal of all Osjan's searches were always the most basic and universal elements of music.

Current lineup (January, 2007): Jacek Ostaszewski (flutes, vocals), Wojciech Waglewski (guitar, vocals), Radosław Nowakowski (drums: conga, bata), Milo Kurtis - (drums, Jew's-harps, vocalisations).

DISCOGRAPHY:

OSSIAN: OSSIAN
LP 1973 Poljazz Z-SXL 0545a PL

OSSIAN: OSSIAN (Księga Deszczu Plus, live)
LP 1975 Polskie Nagrania - Muza SX 1279 PL
CD 1999 Pomaton EMI / Scena FM 5 24316
CD 2007 Milo Records MR111 / 5907513047254

OSSIAN: OSSIAN (with Tomasz Stańko)
LP 1978 Poljazz Z-SX-0689 PL
CD 2005 Milo Records MR109 / 5907513047223 (with a different cover)

OSSIAN: KSIĘGA CHMUR
LP 1979 Polskie Nagrania - Muza SX 1777 PL
CD 2003 Yesterday 830988 054 2 PLread more

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Ossian
1973
4.50 | 2 ratings
Ossian (with Tomasz Stańko)
1978
4.00 | 2 ratings
Księga Chmur
1979
3.50 | 2 ratings
Roots
1982
2.00 | 1 ratings
Głową W Dół
1992
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Po Prostu
2008

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3.50 | 2 ratings
Ossian (Księga Deszczu)
1975 		not rated
Ossian
1980
3.00 | 1 ratings
Rytuał Dźwięku I Ciszy
1988
4.33 | 3 ratings
Muzyka Fruwajacej Ryby
1998 		not rated
Księga Liści/Drzewo Osjan
2005

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