Pražský Výběr
Straka v hrsti

  • Format: LP
  • Band: Pražský Výběr
  • Title: Straka v hrsti
  • Band's Origin: CS
  • Style: progressive Rock - Underground
  • Rating: 3
  • Release Year: 2018
  • Recording Year: 1982
  • Production Year: 1988/2018
  • Record Company: Supraphon
  • Item's Number: SU 6057-1
  • Color of the Label: green
  • Edition: 2018
  • Extras: 180 gram vinyl, inner sleeve, insert
  • EAN: 099925605711
  • Weight: 300 g
Grading
  • Visual: new
  • Acoustic:
  • Cover: new

Supraphon Release Information



Legendary album on 180g vinyl!

Few domestic rock or pop albums have such a turbulent history. The 1982 recording had to wait a long time for an official chance – just like the simultaneously banned band – during the rigid communist “normalisation”. We enjoyed the unmistakably Czech new wave swagger of the highly experienced musicians on illegal tapes, but the real opportunity came in 1988 in the form of an LP by Panton.

Just an ironic recession or a casual joke? Add to that the extraordinary instrumental skills of musicians with primarily jazz-rock experience. Michael Kocáb (vocals, keyboards), Michal Pavlíček (guitar, bass, vocals), Vilém Čok (bass, vocals) and Jiří Hrubeš (drums) were not teenagers anymore. Their compositions, arrangements and stage performances were therefore thoughtful to the point of dada, but also musically brilliant. Combined with F. R. Čech’s seamlessly blended, welcomely nonsensical themes and rhymes, a rock phenomenon emerged, to which the Bolshevik obstructions added an anti-regime tinge.

The vinyl reissue proves that more than thirty-five years after it was recorded and an even thirty since its release, it’s still worthwhile. The LP-format cover is photo / graphically requisitely snappy. Oldřich Slezák’s remastering has been transferred to 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.

Listening shows that Zubatá definitely has no claim to this album!

Tracklist



Side A


1. Hrabě X 5:14
2. Na Václavskym Václaváku 2:22
3. Straka v hrsti 4:18
4. Pražákům je hej 5:03
5. Můj koníček (krysy) 3:47

Side B


1. Bangabasaua 2:25
2. S.O.S. (prachy) 4:39
3. Zubatá 2:48
4. Tango Ropotámo 1:25
5. Proč jen já 5:51
6. Nádraží 3:36