Czech Up!: We'd Be Happy - Volume 2

Second volume of Vampisoul's ""Czech Up!"" series, which compiles 60s and 70s gems from the vaults of Supraphon and Panton labels from the former Czechoslovakia. Freakbeat, soul, baroque pop, prog-funk, garage rock, psych-jazz. all that and more is contained within these 22 tracks, wonderfully produced and now carefully remastered, many of them never reissued before. Includes detailed liner notes by Luká Machata. Welcome to the second Vampisoul set of trouvailles from the Supraphon vaults, a series of compilations that we launched in 2016 under the title ""Czech Up!"". It's a concept that we had in mind ever since we began our collaboration with Supraphon over ten years ago, but that wasn't initially possible to accomplish due to - luckily temporary - licensing restrictions. In the meantime, just as Supraphon is steadily progressing with revalidating their immense back catalogue, we're now able to move along with them, picking up their cherries as they keep popping up on the notional surface. The Supraphon label was established in the early 1950s in former Czechoslovakia and has been continuously active ever since. While it's always been highly esteemed by music connoisseurs for its excellent classical music releases, Supraphon's pop, rock and jazz music catalogue, although comprising around 60,000 unique tracks, remains for the most part a big unknown to the international audience. Today it also incorporates the complete back catalogue of Panton, another Czechoslovak label launched in 1967 that operated independently until the late 1990s. On ""Czech Up! Volume 2"", we're again presenting an array of astounding songs from the otherwise inglorious decade of political and social gloom in Czechoslovakia, a decade that actually started shortly after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in 1968. Here's your chance to meet up with some eccentric fools, wry sarcasm, fountains of cognition, lovers approaching, lovers leaving, faunal fables, bizarre beings, wizardly seasons, ordinary oddities, unearthly gardens, morbid dreams, pretense obedience, melancholy windscapes, wishful thinking, exotic jungles and eerie ravines So whether you're hanging loose, shaking a leg, sampling some of this'n'that, or just opening your mind and ears widely, here's 22 more tracks that won't let you down while you're czeching up. TRACKLIST 1. Bláznivej Kiki OLYMPIC 2. A co má bejt - HANA ULRYCHOVÁ 3. Prameny poznání MAHAGON 4. Hold On, I'm Coming - FRAMUS FIVE 5. Nocní modlitba APOLLOBEAT 6. We'd Be Happy BEATINGS 7. Byls má bój - VALERIE CIZMÁROVÁ 8. Písu krídou zprávu - GUSTAV BROM ORCHESTRA 9. Snakes - THE BLUE EFFECT 10. V obore SHQ 11. Divný pán METRONOM 12. Bytost podivná - SYNKOPY 61 13. The Wizard - JAZZ Q 14. It's Always Ever The Same VULKÁN 15. Zahrada za domem - GEORGE & BEATOVENS 16. Zavrazdil jsem lásku FLAMENGO 17. Padni na kolena - EVA PILAROVÁ 18. Tvuj prítel vítr FLAMINGO 19. I Wish I Were - THE SOULMEN 20. Dzungle BARNODAJ 21. Rokle - HANA ZAGOROVÁ 22. Trznice sveta - KAREL CERNOCH

1: Bláznivej Kiki - Olympic
2: A Co Má Bejt - Hana Ulrychová
3: Prameny Poznání - Mahagon
4: Hold On, I'm Coming (Feat. Michal Prokop) - Framus Five
5: Nocní Modlitba (Feat. Yvonne Prenosilová) - Apollobeat
6: We'd Be Happy - Beatings
7: Byls Má Bój - Valerie Cizmárová
8: Písu Krídou Zprávu (Feat. Milan Cernohouz) - Gustav Brom Orchestra
9: Snakes (Feat. Vladimír Misík) - The Blue Effect
10: V Obore - SHQ
11: Divný Pán - Metronom
12: Bytost Podivná - Synkopy 61
13: The Wizard (Feat. Joan Duggan) [excerpt] - Jazz Q
14: It's Always Ever the Same (Feat. Martha & Tena) - Vulkán
15: Zahrada Za Domem (Feat. Petr Novák) - George & Beatovens
16: Zavrazdil Jsem Lásku (Feat. Karel Kahovec) - Flamengo
17: Padni Na Kolena (Piece of My Heart) - Eva Pilarová
18: Tvuj Prítel Vítr (Feat. Marie Rottrová) - Flamingo
19: I Wish I Were (Feat. Dezo Ursiny) - The Soulmen
20: Dzungle - Barnodaj
21: Rokle - Hana Zagorová
22: Trznice Sveta - Karel Cernoch

Number of Discs: 1

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