A blurb on the back cover of Underground Masters' reissue of
Krzysztof Klenczon's 1971 epic
Trzy Korony proclaims it "Probably the best Polish 70's rock album!!," and without a Ph.D. in Eastern European psychedelia, it's impossible to confirm or deny such hyperbole. It's equally difficult to find fault with the record itself: a wild and wooly monument to acid-fuzz excess,
Trzy Korony is all the more remarkable given that it was created under Communist rule.
Klenczon's
Beatlesque melodies, mind-warping guitar solos, and kaleidoscopic arrangements are the very essence of the anarchy Communism sought to extinguish. ~ Jason Ankeny