Akurat is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 band formed in November 1994 in Bielsko-Biała

Bielsko-Biała

-Economy and Industry:Nowadays Bielsko-Biała is one of the best-developed parts of Poland. It was ranked 2nd best city for business in that country by Forbes. About 5% of people are unemployed . Bielsko-Biała is famous for its textile, machine-building, and especially automotive industry...

 district. 'Akurat' is Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 for 'exactly' or 'yeah right'. Music of the band can be credited as a fusion between punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, reggae

Reggae

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, ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

 and pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

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Current members

• Piotr Wróbel - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocalist
• Wojciech "Yellow" Żółty - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocalist
• Ireneusz Wojnar - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Przemysław Zwias - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Bartłomiej "Barthezz" Pawlus - drums
  Drum kit
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Former members

Former members of the band are: Tomasz Kłaptocz, Krzysztof Krupa, "Yoyo", Marcin Stroński, Dariusz Wilk, "Mróva", Jarosław Bandzul, Piotr Fuchs.

Studio albums

• Pomarańcza
  Pomarancza
  Pomarańcza is Akurat's first album released on January 29, 2001.-Track listing:Titles in brackets are translated from Polish.# "Hahahaczyk"# "Espania "...
  
  (2001)
• Prowincja
  Prowincja (album)
  Prowincja is Akurat's second album released on October 1, 2003.-Track listing:Titles in brackets are translated from Polish.# "Scena po scenie" # "Wiej-ska" # "Jestem tym"...
  
  (2003)
• Fantasmagorie
  Fantasmagorie
  Fantasmagorie is an album by Akurat, released on May 31, 2006.-Track listing:# "Tylko najwięksi"# "Fantasmagorie"# "Słowa mają mnie"# "Kiedy wrócę tu"# "Demo"# "Sama śmietanka"# "Szerzej"# "Garb"# "Kiedy bliżej z tobą będę"...
  
  (2006)
• Optymistyka (2008)
• Człowiek (2010)

Singles

• "Droga długa jest"
• "Hahahaczyk"
• "Lubię mówić z tobą"
• "Do prostego człowieka" - based on Julian Tuwim
  Julian Tuwim
  Julian Tuwim , sometimes used pseudonym "Oldlen" when writing song lyrics. He was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, of Jewish parents, and educated in Łódź and Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University...
  
  's poem under the same title
• "Wiej-ska"
• "Fantasmagorie"
• "Tylko najwięksi"
• "Czy to już"
• "Żółty Wróbel"
• "Język ciała"
• "Piewcy"
• "Godowy majowy"
• "Ale człowiek song"
• "Nie fikam"