Released recordings

"Four years after Znění z mezí here comes Hody hody chorovody, another editoral compilation of what has recently drawn our attention from the fragmented Czech scene of experimental and alternative music" (HIS Voice 6/2013, p. 4).

Zátory, the least known legend of music rooted deeply in 1970's, but performed in the midst of the first decade of the millennium. The band was headed by Vladimír Línek, the veteran of alternative music, who has, among others, collaborated with Mikoláš Chadima. This is a post-mortem compilation of home-recorded songs.

Petr Nikl, Jaroslav Dušek or Tata Bojs took the challenge to record coverversions of unageing songs from the work of Prague's theatre Semafor. The result is a CD entitled "For Semafor", which brings the hits by Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr into the 21st century. The album has been released to celebrate 50th anniversary of this legendary theatrical scene. Besides cold electronic, the album offers garrage rock sound as well as accoustic blues, genuine hits as well as less known songs." (Source: CT24.cz) (My favourite coverversions from this CD are by Dva, OTK, Jan Štolba Band)

Home demo recorded in Dubeček near Praha. [audio samples here]

"With this double album of previously unreleased Pavel Richter home recordings, Indies is paying one of many publishing debts. After the break-up of the legendary band Svehlik in 1983, Richter (who is above all a guitarist and composer, but also plays keyboards, clarinet and electronic instruments and has an interesting singing voice), together with his follow traveller Lubos Fidler and the folk-orientated musician Oldrich Janota, formed a group called High Fidelity (or Dzafiri), combining folk with minimalist sound experiments, put in a brief appearance on the first Dunaj album (Iva Bittova and Dunaj, Panton 1988) and finally formed his own Richter Band. The total number of groups in which he has played and still plays is, however, much greater, The booklet of the present collections lists them in alphabetical order: Amalgam, Dunaj, Elektrobus, Guru Band, Janota-Fidler-Richter, Richter Band, Sanctus Musicus, Svehlik, and Wooden Toys. For completeness we might here add groups not represented on the double album, i.e. Stehlik, F. O. K., Chadima's group Fimfarum or the Forgotten Orchestra of the Land of Dreamers, And the title of the collection? It is also the name of Richer's private publishing company." (Peter Ferenc) [audio samples here]

The sampler brings an overview of what was released by the Black Point label in the previous year.

Home recordings made with poor equipment, representing the best and final period of this band, Spring 1981. [audio samples here]