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plastic people of the universe and stories about vaclav havel have convinced me that the czech republic must be full of other amazing things I have not heard -

I have found this list:
http://archiv.radio.cz/listings/rock.html
Has anyone heard any of these? or others?

― mallory ahern (chicago, now!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ecstasy of St. Theresa all the way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Czech out...

http://www.rokdabla.cz/index.en.html

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Matadors!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunshine! Well, i like them anyway.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Czech out:

http://60spunk.m78.com/eeuropean.htm

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

McH Band!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Sabot are pretty cool live

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(don't know if it would translate well to disc though)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard a Sabot album and it was boring hardcore, but I'm told they're good live (mostly by fans of hardcore though).
Uz Jsme Doma (pronounced Oosh-may-doma apparently) are pretty cool avant rock.
Iva Bittova is more at the folk / improv end of things normally, but what I've heard of her rock stuff is v. nice.
Modry Efekt were a dodgy 70's prog band, avoid.
I paid £5 for a Vaclav Havel album thinking it would be weird-ass rock n'roll, but it was just some actors doing one of his plays in Czech. Bummer!

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Iva Bittova's Ne Nehledej is the particularly amazing album & best place to start. 80% of it ended up on the domestic compilation on Elektra a few years ago, but the last and best track was bafflingly omitted.

Bittova & Fajt had two albums, one studio, one live, some overlap but both great

― (Jon L), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Korai Orom from Hungary are worth checking out - mostly heavish prog that manages to dodge a lot of the cliches. The CD lists almost a dozen band members including their lighting techs, so I imagine their shows are over the top.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

1 more link for czech goodness

http://www.tamizdat.org/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to sit next to the brother of the drummer from Zluty Pes. He gave me a video of theirs once. I thought it kinda sucked, but I liked it in a perverse prog way.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone heard Rale, featuring the guy who collaborated with Bittova on White Inferno? I've read the compared to Volapuk and After Dinner, which sounds great.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Uz Jsme Doma are brilliant. Their first two albums, In the Middle of Words and Unloved World are absolute classics. Their more recent output is of good quality as well, but the otherworldly strangeness of the early albums and vocalist/sax player Alice Kakouskova are greatly missed.

Uz Jsme Doma are ferociously intense live. They tour fairly often. Look out for them.

Psi Vojaci are an excellent band as well, but their literary leanings make them more difficult to fully appreciate if you aren't fluent in Czech. The band's leader is the brother of Jachym Topol, who wrote City Sister Silver. Psi Vojaci put an album out based on that novel.

Oh, and Tara Fuki! My god, I almost forgot about them. Two cello players and two beautiful voices. Wonderful stuff!

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ecstasy Of St. Theresa are by far the Czechs' best & most exportable band. If you're genuinely interested: they've just done a joint single with British Sea Power and the two bands are playing together first at the end of April in London. There doing a special 'welcome to the EU' Czech night at Cargo as well as a gig at the Shep's Bush Empire.

Other good Czech acts are Ivan Kral (used to play with Blondie, Patti Smith, & Iggy), Floex (decent intelligent dance beat stuff) and Sum Svistu (now defunct, but best described as complete psycho loonies playing a Czech version of world music). There's also a Czech Velvet Underground tribute band made up of dissident musicians from the countries communist years - better than the real thing....oh don't get me started on Czech music....

― Rudy Kantfail (revelator), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, hearing about the Velvet Revival band is what had me interested in the first place, but I've never been able to find any recordings of them. is this stuff in print?

oo I love these websites y'all have sent me to...

― mallory ahern (chicago, now!), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Iva Bittova & Bang On A Can have a new CD - Elida. Heard some samples, anyone hear the real thing?

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Petr Nikl! Nase Vec!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

was underwhelmed by first listen to Elida. need to give it another.

lots of records from her, the last few years -- I've bought Jako host & Èikori, the latter in particular very warm and comfortable sounding, but... can't remember any of the tunes. Ne nehledej set a high standard, that record still just wipes me out.

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

PRAGUE ROCK!

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

that is correct

(by using the snobbish word 'underwhelmed' that's _only_ in comparison to her own work, I'm never going to stop buying her records, they're all better than many of the other things I hear)

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

i've been meaning to do more reasearch into polish jazz and psych. there's a ton of crazy shit out there.
http://www.cosmicsounds-london.com/label/cs-19/cs-19.html

my friend picked up a Novi Singers lp recently and it was fucking great
http://www.polishjazz.com/cd/novi.htm

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Are SPS Czech? They're bloody great wherever they're from.

http://www.punk-aid.com/PUNK_AID_CZ/PUNKAIDCZ.jpg

http://www.punk-aid.com/PUNK_AID_CZ/punk_aid_cz.html

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Moimir Papalescu & the Nihilists are pretty much the 'IT' band in Prague right now. Think Cramps going electro. Predicatble but still prett cool...

― Baaderonixx cancels each other out (Fabfunk), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Going through a big box of stowed CDs, I just came across a wonderful disc that I picked up in Prague in 1994 - Irena Havlova & Vojitéch Havel, Little Blue Nothing Music (Arta Records, 1991). (Available here, much to my surprise.) If this is to be believed, Brassland will reissue it.

Anyway, IIRC it's Vaclav Havel's wife (?) and, um, another relation - really lovely, skittering little sketches on viol da bamba, bowls, gongs, "silver cups," knitting needles, etc... Has a definite Alejandra & Aeron vibe, with a bit of Hindemith thrown in for good measure. Anyone else know this record?

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

IIRC it's Vaclav Havel's wife

Umm... no.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

sounds great. will add it in to my next ReR order.

'not songs'

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

The few Czech metal bands I've heard have been really good and unusual. Favorites-

!T.O.O.H! - Řád a Trest/Order & Punishment
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

― lrsn (larssen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, i figured i might be way off on that. (any relation at all? is havel like smith in the US?) that was something we overheard when traveling and somehow it just stuck with me. sorry!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

still an awesome album, anyway.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 21 September 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

Thinking of starting an Iva Bittova thread but doing so in August might be ILX suicide. In the meantime, I have to say that 'jH' is really doing for me these days.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:20 (twelve years ago)

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