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SU 6206LP
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"For the first time since 1968, you can feast your eyes on the original artwork of Olympic's debut album, adorned with illustrations by Jan Antonín Pacák, the band's percussionist. Excellent work was done in this respect by Vrkoslav and Zámostný from Olympic's fan club (the additional pressings were put into universal graphic covers, entirely devoid of the magic of the original title's artwork). The remastered sound corresponds to 2013 standards yet with regard to the original analogue patina. The (printed inner sleeve) presents interesting documents from the archives, including several previously unpublished photos.""
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SU 6063LP
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Featuring founding member Michal Pavlíček. "A re-edition of the 1987 double album, a landmark recording in Czech rock history. The present 2LP set contains the original combination of live and studio recordings and three bonuses to boot. Stromboli proved the effectiveness of blending the echoes of jazz-rock fusion, robustly supplemented with ferocious guitar sounds, spherical, as well as almost metal rock, passages for instruments and vocals, keyboard and guitar synthesisers, supported by translated Morgenstern poems and newly written lyrics. This first item in Stromboli's discography will always remain a living testimony to clearly Czech yet internationally comparable, formally complex but comprehensible to listen to music, replete with instrumental and vocal equilibristics, as well as an undiminished intensity of impression."
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SU 6069LP
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2012 limited vinyl repress of this debut album, recorded/released in 1972. Fully authorized, in deluxe gatefold sleeve. "Flamengo's only album stands as one of the best to have come out of Czechoslovakia. It's progressive jazz-rock somewhere between Jethro Tull, Colosseum, Traffic, and Cream. Their sole album came in the second part of their career, in 1972, once woodwind player Kubik and vocalist Misik arrived and changed the group's sound to a sort of hard-driving brass-jazz-rock. By this time Flamengo was a sextet, and until then, they had been fairly well tolerated by the communist regime even after the crush of the Prague Spring. For some strange reason, the regime eventually banned the album, probably on the account of the lyrical content, which had been written by Josef Kainar and Hynek Zalcyk, both non-members of the group, although the latter was the album's producer."
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SU 5822CD
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2008 release. "An exclusive collection of six landmark albums in Czech rock history! The box set contains a set of celebrated Framus Five works plus numerous bonuses, as well as a wide-ranging interview in which Michal Prokop discusses with Ondrej Bezr the music, the era and the people. The band's lineup, including guests, is a roll-call of the era's finest musicians, rock or otherwise."
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SU 6089CD
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Artists: Emil Viklicky, piano and compositions. Jan Beránek, violin. Lubos Andrst, guitar. Frantisek Uhlir, bass. Milan Vitoch, drums. "Emil Viklicky, joined by four renowned Czech musicians, recorded his first solo LP entitled In Holomoc Town in August 1977. Together they achieved a natural fusion of modern jazz and the heritage of Moravian folk music. Today these recordings rank among the most important in history of Czech jazz. In addition this CD offers five other similarly conceived compositions, recorded in June 1984."
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