Tekuté písky (Quicksands) is a folk album by Karel Kryl, issued in Czechoslovakia by Bonton in 1990.[1][2][3]
| Tekuté písky | |
|---|---|
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1990 |
| Recorded | 1989–1990 |
| Studio | Martin Kratochvíl Studio |
| Genre | Folk |
| Label | Bonton |
| Producer | Jiří Černý |
Songs for the album were selected by Jiří Černý, who previously worked with Kryl on his most successful album Close the Gate, Little Brother (1969).[3] The album was recorded in the studio of Martin Kratochvíl.[4]
The lyrics to the title track opener Quicksands is adaptation of the poem Wedding Song by Jaroslav Seifert.[5] The lyrics to closer Velvet Spring is Kryl's reflection on the Velvet Revolution.[1]
Track listing
edit- Tekuté písky (Quicksands)
- Ignác (Ignatius)
- Dvacet (Twenty)
- Ukolébavka (The Lullaby)
- Irena (Irene)
- Vůně (The Scent)
- Blátivá stráň (Slushy Hillside)
- Kyselý sníh (Acid Snow)
- Září (September)
- Sametové jaro (Velvet Spring)
Trivia
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Roman Jireš, Deska na víkend, Mladá fronta DNES, 2 March 1991
- ^ -jh-, Karel Kryl, Tekuté písky, Akord 7/1991
- ^ a b Ivan Hartman, Statistíce lidí si hrají písně svého "bratříčka", Lidové noviny, 30 January 1997
- ^ Ječmínek 2/1990, page 6
- ^ Zdeněk R. Nešpor, Czech Folk Music in the 1960s–80s from the Point of View of the Sociology of Religion, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2003 (Nešpor compares verses of Seiferts's poem with Kryl's song) pdf
- ^ Playboy (Czech edition), March 1994