Olympic
Pták Rosomák

  • Format: CD
  • Band: Olympic
  • Title: Pták Rosomák
  • Band's Origin: CS
  • Style: Beat
  • Rating: 4
  • Release Year: 2019
  • Recording Year: 1968-1969
  • Production Year: 1969/2019
  • Record Company: Supraphon
  • Item's Number: SU 6581-2
  • Color of the Label:
  • Edition:
  • Extras: digipak
  • EAN: 099925658120
  • Weight: 69 g
Grading
  • Visual: new
  • Acoustic:
  • Cover: new

Supraphon Release Information



Second Olympic album in anniversary reissue + 9 bonuses

After “Želva” (Turtle), which recently received a CD and LP commemoration, there is a successful follow-up. Fifty years since its original release, the reissue of “Pták Rosomák” (Wolverine Bird), is a musically more mature project from Olympic. The last one with the classic line-up, i.e. still with bassist, singer and lyricist Pavel Chrastina.

By 1968, the rockers had a phase of temporary cultural relaxation and a short international experience. This is also why we can find here the inspiration of Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper, but also influences of sitar India or hippie San Francisco. Either way, however, it is a listening experience with the hallmark of Czech big beat, built on the unmistakable songs of the essential author-interpreter duo Janda-Chrastina, sympathetically complemented vocally by Jan “Sorry” Pacák and Ladislav Klein.

The vinyl version offers a reconstructed sound and cover, this time for the first time reissued with the original cut-out of “Pták Rosomák”, intended for rotation on the turntable. In addition to variant Czech versions of some of the basic songs, the CD contains nine bonus tracks: singles and songs related to the recording and release of the album. The latter show the compositional, instrumental and sonic progress of Olympic, while the English version of Krásná neznámé (Beautiful Unknown) is also a lyrical response to the quickly lost hopes after the war. Probably the last re-release of “Pták Rosomák” on physical media, it thus provides a much-needed extended look back at the groundbreaking album: for without the later emigrating Chrastina, much was different.

Tracklist



1. Krásná neznámá 2:26
2. Ikarus blues 4:56
3. Báječné místo 4:20
4. Everybody 3:48
5. O půlnoci 2:41
6. Pták Rosomák 2:49
7. Tvé neklidné svědomí 3:29
8. Čekám na zázrak 2:49
9. Z bílé černou 2:35
10. Pohřeb své vlastní duše 4:01
11. Kamenožrout zelený 3:37
12. Svatojánský happening 2:21
Bonus:
13. O půlnoci – Recorded 1969 2:39
14. Pták rosomák – Recorded 1969 2:58
15. Čekám na zázrak – Recorded 1969 2:48
16. Pohřeb své vlastní duše – Recorded 1969 4:12
17. Svatojánský happening – Recorded 1968 2:20
18. Zbytečná holka – Recorded 1968 2:09
19. Nekonečná cesta – Recorded 1968 2:15
20. Tragédie bohémova – Recorded 1968 2:42
21. Story of a Wonder – Recorded 1968 2:20