AMAROK

The Polish cosmic proggers have transformed themselves from a studio project to a live act with aplomb.

JM

Polish art-proggers Amarok are a band that have been reborn not once but twice. Originally formed in Warsaw in 1999 by guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Michał Wojtas and guitarist Bartosz Jackowski, the band released three albums before calling it a day in 2003. And then, after a 12-year break, Amarok were resurrected by Wojtas with a new line-up that saw him team up with his wife Marta and finally play live while enlisting the help of some familiar names in the studio. “In 2016, I decided to in the direction that I wanted to go – to play with Marta and that was fantastic,” says Wojtas. “I asked Camel’s Colin Bass and Mariusz Duda from Riverside to sing on the Hunt album, but playing live, we discovered that we needed faster,…

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