condition (record/cover):  NM / EX (small tag on back) 

The only LP by the Polish band Reportaż, recorded 21 February 1987 at the Polskie Radio studio in Poznań and released the following year (1988) on the state label Tonpress as SX-T 129. Reportaż is one of the more remarkable records to emerge from the Polish underground at the very end of the People's Republic: a fully realised RIO-adjacent statement with serious jazz and free-improvisation roots, recorded under conditions that made such music almost impossible to issue.

The album moves between experimental rock, art-rock and free improvisation across both sides, with strongly compositional songwriting against a backdrop of free-jazz-derived ensemble interplay. The lyrics, in Polish, treat themes of social and historical witness (the band's name itself translates as "Report" or "Reportage"). Tracks include "Zmartwienie" ("Worry"), "Titanic" and others, the album moving between contemplative passages and more confrontational ensemble outbursts.

The original vintage Tonpress Polish pressing on SX-T 129. Tonpress, the Warsaw-based subsidiary of the state publishing apparatus, occasionally issued surprisingly adventurous music at the edges of its mostly mainstream catalog: Reportaż is one of the more striking examples, slotting alongside the Brygada Kryzys LP, the Variété debut and selected Tomasz Stańko sides as evidence of how serious Polish music was operating in 1987-88.