“Feel” worked hard and Kupicha had the audience wanting more as he did a couple of interaction numbers...
By Raymond Rolak
DETROIT - Next stop for "Feel" will be Chicago. After a standing room only concert in Hamtramck, the rock-pop band from Katowice, Poland will showcase at The Club in Burbank, Illinois on Saturday. Lead vocalist Piotr Kupicha wowed with a two hour plus set and energized with his audience interactions. It was obvious that his on stage presence connected with the crowd as “Feel” went through their repertoire of Polish hit songs.
The evening was a showcase as local Polish-American rapper Dze Jo-Pisze started with a warm-up set and then Magda Kaminski got things really moving along. Kaminski did a few numbers from her CD, “This is Me.” The PNA Concert Hall in Hamtramck lent a good platform as Marcin Kindla showed off his warm attraction vocals with some softer stylings. He also really connected with the crowd in front of the stage.
“Feel” worked hard and Kupicha had the audience wanting more as he did a couple of interaction numbers. Before the concert he had told me music was in his in his heritage as his grandfather, also Piotr, was a professional musician in Silesia. “Dza-Dza was a violinist,” said Kupicha. “So strings are in my bloodline,” he added smiling.
While relaxing in the ready room the songwriter had questions about the Detroit Red Wings as most of the group knew about the local long time NHL ice-hockey success of this area. Group spokesman, Wojtek Grzesiok, told of the time a few years ago that former Polish hockey icon Mariusz Czerkawski got Kupicha to play in a celebrity ice-hockey game in Poland. “No one expected Piotr to be so fast,” added Grzesiok. “Just like on the guitar, Piotr skated fast.”
In one of Kupicha’s songs he reached the audience with a soft staccato feel, “Listen-Listen,” he sang in Polish. It was colorful and touching to the audience. Offerings from their new CD “Feel-3” were front and center throughout the sets. An old favorite, "And When the Dusk Comes" got the crowd really moving (A gdy jest już ciemno).
The only wrinkle in the evening was that the very popular Sebastian Riedel popped a disk in his back and was trying to recuperate at the band’s hotel. He won’t be able to perform in Chicago either.
Grzesiok said they had been looking forward to the Detroit date as it was the first time for “Feel” to play in this area. After this performance it won’t be the last. Local promoters from Telewizja-Detroit and Kozi Vodka had the small concert ballroom set just right. On this tour, “Feel” had previously played in New Britain, Connecticut, Brooklyn, New York and Passaic, New Jersey.
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FEEL - Piotr Kupicha - Lead Vocals and Guitar, Łukasz Kożuch - Keyboard, Michał Nowak - Bass, Michał Opaliński - Percussion, Paweł Pawłowski - Guitar
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