Olympic
Želva

  • Format: CD
  • Band: Olympic
  • Title: Želva
  • Band's Origin: CS
  • Style: Beat
  • Rating: 4
  • Release Year: 2019
  • Recording Year: 1967
  • Production Year: 1968/2019
  • Record Company: Supraphon
  • Item's Number: SU 6206-2
  • Color of the Label:
  • Edition:
  • Extras: digipak
  • EAN: 099925620622
  • Weight: 71 g
Grading
  • Visual: new
  • Acoustic:
  • Cover: new

Supraphon Release Information



Cult Big Beat in an extraordinary reissue with 11 bonus tracks

In 1968, several historically debut Czechoslovak beat albums were released – and the very first one was called “Želva” (Turtle). Discussions about the most popular domestic bands at the time were fannishly heated, and Olympic vs. Matadors “fought” each other a bit like the Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones. Both of our famous lineups finally got ellipses back then, see also the recent Supraphon vinyl reissues.

“Želva” was not recorded as part of a comprehensive studio stay, but the album is composed of recordings made in different months of 1967. It’s also an intersection of repertoire from several years, capturing the starting points of the mid-sixties as well as promising hints of the compositional and instrumental progression of the band’s next direction. “Želva” appears on CD for the umpteenth time, but this time it is accompanied by specially selected bonus tracks, including little-known or even unreleased ones. Their discoverer, compiler and author of the clear text in the sixteen-page booklet Oldřich Zámostný selected several variant recordings from the radio archive and added foreign language versions as well. These are sometimes quite curious in terms of singing and sound, but they are also evidence of the international efforts and hopes of the time.

Olympic has gone through several stylistic turns in its long existence and made a number of excellent albums, but only one of them could have been at the very beginning – and here we present it to you in what is, so to speak, the ultimate form.

The songs have been given a new sonic remastering, the bonus tracks the maximum possible studio care, the cover artwork a necessary reconstruction and the whole “Želva” CD is going to complement the already reissued LP.

Tracklist



1. Želva 3:36
2. Vzpomínka plíživá 2:45
3. Línej skaut 2:11
4. Dám zejtra zas flám 2:26
5. Modravé mámení 2:18
6. Nikdo neotvírá 2:05
7. Nebezpečná postava 1:42
8. Snad jsem to zavinil já 3:00
9. Dědečkův duch 2:17
10. Jen Bůh ví 3:34
11. Telefon 1:47
12. Psychiatrický prášek 6:20
Bonus:
13. Želva – Recorded 1967 3:19
14. Vzpomínka plíživá – Recorded 1966 2:33
15. Línej skaut – Recorded 1966 1:59
16. Dám zejtra zas flám – Recorded 1966 2:26
17. Nikdo neotvírá – Recorded 1965 2:12
18. Nebezpečná postava – Recorded 1965 2:00
19. Snad jsem to zavinil já – Recorded 1966 2:53
20. Please, Don’t Leave Me (Snad jsem to zavinil já) – Recorded 1967 2:59
21. Großvaters Geist (Dědečkův duch) – Recorded 1966 2:38
22. Psychiatrický prášek – Recorded 1966 3:24
23. Ein psychiatrisches Bonbon (Psychiatrický prášek) – Recorded 1966 2:51