Cheap Czad

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The band CHEAP CZAD was formed by polish artist RAFAL CZUPRYNIAK at the end of 1999 in Brooklyn, NY. Here, he had a chance to come back to his passion for music which goes back to ‘81 where he began playing drumms in many different punk-rock and new wave bands. He also performed as a one person music group experimenting with various “anti-musical” surfaces as: bikes’ wheels, sheets of metal, sounds of engines, voices from street to create his compositions. Interestingly, during the same time around 1984 there were artists in Europe, like Blixa Bargeld in Germany (Einsturzende Neubauten) who had been creating a soundscape similar to Rafal Czupryniak’s attempts with music. At that time Poland was still deeply involved in socialistic practices. He had been playing on borrowed six-track synthetizer (like almost everyone involved in building up a band) and started to be amazed by power of paints which finally won...till November 1999. In May 2000, The CHEAP CZAD released its first record called Germans Are Coming. There are nine compositions on this CD. The titled song includes sampled Adolf Hitler as a singer (his presence is rather a joke than any actual notion of sympathy). Rafal Czupryniak was always under a big influence of German culture as an entity, by what he describes as its schizophrenic essence. Of course, one song is about capitol of Germany, West Berlin 1980. Rafal remembers when they entered the city in the late night and the main street of the city, Kurfürstendam

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