Ode to Venus explained

Ode to Venus
Type:	Album
Artist:	Czesław Niemen
Cover:	Ode to Venus Niemen.jpg
Released:	1973
Length:	41:06
Label:	CBS (LP)
Prev Title:	Strange Is This World
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Niemen Vol. 1 and Niemen Vol. 2
Next Year:	1973

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