Kalemegdan Disk - ROCK FROM EASTERN EUROPE

Supraphon Release Information

Anniversary reissue of the legendary art-rock album

This year is a multi-significant year for the commemoration of this album, originally released in 1979. In addition to the milestone anniversaries of the singer, keyboardist and composer Lešek Semelka’s seventy-fifth birthday and the same, but unfortunately untimely, anniversary of guitarist, composer and bandleader Radim Hladík, there are also variously rounded reminders of the passing of the drummer Vlado Čech and the lyricist Pavel Vrba. All of them – as well as another singer and keyboardist Oldřich Veselý, artist Petr Sís and photographer Alan Pajer – have a major contribution to the album, then released under the forced title M. Efekt.

The extensive compositions, poetic lyrics (all of which can be found in the booklet) and musicianship were perfectly suited to the sound of, for example, the English Yes, but with undoubted domestic specialties. The five compositions bring at least two even in a completely different line-up of the band later often played, namely “Hledám své vlastní já” (Looking for My Own Self) and Rajky.

A fundamental challenge for anyone with a taste for arranged, listener-demanding rock that never lacks strong melodies, suitably fanciful lyrics, appealing instrumental performances and extraordinary singing.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Za krokem žen 11:45
2. Hledám své vlastní já 4:12
3. Rajky 7:14

Side B

1. Zmoudření babím létem 8:44
2. Zázrak jedné noci 11:48