A hoarse voice from under the feet teases like a hangover; It's a Ford Mercury Model 56 with a cracked exhaust pipe, a muffler that punched something. It's the bouncer's scream as the bar closes, it's a voice from New Orleans.

It's Tom Waits!

Tom Waits is a cult figure: singer, poet, composer, instrumentalist, arranger, actor - born in the United States in 1949. Permanent Residence - Los Angeles, California.

 

Tom Waits is a symbol of the American tramp, a legend of the world underground, a lover of Bourbon and women, but also an eccentric way of being and cutting language.

Waits' music is a special sound space in which you can not only hear but also feel - smoke, dust, alcohol vapors.

It is music full of dirt, random noise, and yet appreciated by serious music critics. It is music in which rhythm and blues influences constantly mix with jazz with Weill's ballad, theater music, vaudeville music and sometimes even circus music.

Kazik Staszewski is a cult figure: singer, poet, composer, instrumentalist, arranger, actor - born in Poland in 1963.

Permanent address of residence - Warsaw, Poland.

Kazik Staszewski - is the most outstanding artist of the Polish rock scene, a bard of the young Polish intelligentsia.

Kazik arranged, rhythmic and enriched the unbridled, intimate and dark work of Waits. His arrangements gave Waits' ballads a more dynamic character, a more rock-like sound, saturated with instrumentalisation. To face the legend of Tom Waits would seem like a daunting task. However, Kazik Staszewski managed to do it.

The assessment of the clash of these two strong creative individuals - Tom Waits and Kazik Staszewski - was hailed by journalists and fans of both bards as a real musical event!

“The arrangements of all eighteen pieces played that evening have been very carefully and precisely prepared. They did not overturn the originals.

The wild, unbridled, ascetic in form and wandering songs by Waits were rather arranged (...)

Perhaps they lost the typical Waitsian psychedelia and "cacophony", but gained a more balladic character, new sounds, and sometimes even denser melodies (...)

“The biggest differences were, however, in the way Staszewski sings.

Waits gives the text "with withdrawal", its color is saturated with pub spine at four in the morning at the last turn, he feels a characteristic anxiety, apparent boredom, or tiredness full of resignation. Kazik, on the other hand, attacks every phrase and is heavily involved. Always on the attack. (Gazeta Wyborcza)

“It was obviously a different Waits. Instead of his characteristically hoarse voice, we heard Kazik's vibrating voice with varying intensity succumbing to the ballad discipline. " (Republic)

For the first time, Tom Waits gave permission for his songs to be translated.

Their selection is a review of the most famous works by Waits, for the first time officially and with the consent of the author translated into Polish.

Tom Waits and Kazik Staszewski

Two extraordinary personalities. Two very distant places on Earth. Two artists of different generations. Two incomparable poetics. Two separate music styles. Individual stage creations ...

So what do these artists have in common? - Independence.

Independence as a value superior to all other values. Independence as the meaning of life, the meaning of creativity. This extraordinary meeting resulted in an extraordinary album - a story about modern times, in which independence is constantly entangled in a network of tragic addictions.

Tracklist:

Bourbon fills me up

1. Bourbon fills me up 

2. Bourbon fills me up - the conclusive version 

3. God went on business - another version 

4. Bourbon fills me up - version I 

5. Waiting for yesterday 

6. Bourbon fills me up - home version 

7. Come on clap! - Miras Kolaba's version 

8. Bourbon fills me up - version II 

9. Telephone from Istanbul 

10. Bourbon fills me up - version III 

11. God went on business - Yass version 

12. Bourbon fills me up - mix 22 

13. Right outside my window - extra version

14. Bourbon fills me up - single version

Innocent when she sleeps:

1. Innocent when she dreams - for radjuff

2. Innocent when she dreams - karaoke, but with friends

3. Innocent when she dreams - from New York Piotr Milewski - Radio Zet

4. Innocent when dreaming - the stale version

5. Innocent when she dreams - von Jungingen's version

6. Innocent when she dreams - skinny version

7. Innocent when she dreams - Dr. Deraf Oligarchssow name day mix

8. In the deep bottom - 35mm version

9. Innocent when she dreams

Despair flows in a river through the world:

1. Despair flows in a river across the world - radio version

2. Despair River Flows Through the World - Japanese Version

3. Waiting for yesterday - version with intro4. Underground - a version with a himeric wind section

5. God went on vacation - hamond version

6. Telephone from Istanbul - bar version

7. Celina

DVD music videos

1. Singapore

2. Despair flows in a river across the world

3. Bourbon fills me up