Kury

Kury is a Polish post rock group. The band was brought to life in April 1992 by Ryszard Tymon Tymański, a former member of the experimental art performing Totart community (1986-1989) and a later co-founder of the so called yass music scene. Kury played experimental rock music and their style evolved in time towards a more electronic direction. Their first album "Kablox - nieslyna histaria" was recorded in 1994 in Polish Radio Szczecin studios. It contained post rock songs inspired by Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Skeleton Crew and Art Bears. In the following years the band toured Poland, sometimes performing as a quintet with the addition of yass clarinet player Jerzy Mazzoll. In the summer of 1996 Tymanski got together with his long time friend Olaf Deriglasoff, a Tricity based singer and songwriter, to cooperate on the production of a new Kury album. The illustrious P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S., released in 1998, was a strong compilation of pastiche songs deriding the condition of Polish popular music. The recording sessions lasted throughout the springtime of 1997, with a lot of renowned yass and alternative Tricity luminaries participating. The record was very well reviewed and marked a considerable breakthrough for the band. After phenomenal drummer Jacek Olter's suicide in January 2001, the band continued to record and tour, putting out the third regular record entitled "100 lat undergroundu". The album, more oriented towards rap and electronics, contained previously recorded Olter tracks and featured a guest performance from a Sunderland based DJ and musician DJ Scissorkicks aka Anthony Chapman. Without Jacek Olter, Kury strived to survive as a live act with Jacek Stromski (former Apteka), Rory Walsh (former Medicine Jar) and Kuba Staruszkiewicz (former Pink Freud) on drums. The last tour took place in December 2003, after which Tymański disbanded the group. In 2011 and 2012 the band played a couple of concerts and went back into a limbo. In autumn 2023 the Gdynia based S7 record label reissued remastered P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S. on vinyl, CD and cassette which was received with a wave of wide acclaim. Kury once again returned as a touring act, this time announcing its fourth official album to be issued by the end of September 2025. Modern Kury perform as a quintet with Tymon Tymanski and Olaf Deriglasoff handling bass, guitars and vocals altogether, Szymon Burnos singing and playing keyboards and Alan Kapolka playing drums. The widely acclaimed and lately successfully reissued P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S. won a 1998 Fryderyk in the Alternative Album of the Year category and a Machiner '98. As of now, many critics and fans still regard it as one of the most outstanding Polish music achievements of the colorful 90's era.