Dežo Ursiny
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Dežo Ursiny (IPA: ['deʒo 'ʊrsini]) (4 October 1947 - 2 May 1995) was a Slovak rock musician and a television and film dramaturge and director. He is considered one of the most important personalities of Slovak rock music and one of the most talented and unique Slovak popular music composers. He belongs to the wide group of the legends of Czechoslovak Big Beat.[1] He was a member of now legendary big beat bands The Beatmen, The Soulmen in the 1960s and since the mid-1970s, until his death he had pursued a solo-career, composing music artistically very sophisticated and critically highly praised, which varies slightly from one album to another and is sometimes hard to define, but it is generally referred to as jazz rock, or more widely - progressive rock. He composed music to several films, including the popular musical Neberte nám princeznú and also shot a few documentary movies during his lifetime.
Discography
With The Beatmen:
- SP: Safely Arrived/The Enchanted Lie - 1965 (Supraphon)
- SP: Break It/Let's Make A Summer - 1965 (Supraphon)
With The Soulmen:
- EP: Sample Of Happiness/Wake Up/I Wish I Were/Baby Do Not Cry - 1968 (Panton)
Solo career:<br\> Studio albums<br\> English album
- Dežo Ursiny & Provisorium - 1973 (Supraphon)
Slovak albums (all as Dežo Ursiny - Ivan Štrpka):
- Pevnina detstva (Childhood's Mainland) - 1978 (Opus)
- Nové mapy ticha (New Maps Of Silence) - 1979 (Opus)
- Modrý vrch (Blue Hill) - 1981 (Opus)
- 4/4 - 1983 (Opus)
- Bez počasia (Without Weather) - 1984 (Opus)
- Zelená (Green) - 1986 (Opus)
- Na ceste domov (On The Way Home) - 1987 (Opus)
- Momentky (Snapshots) - 1990 (Opus)
- Do tla (Burned To Embers) - 1991 (Opus)
- Ten istý tanec (The Same Dance) - 1992 (Arta)
- Príbeh (Story) - 1994 (BMG Ariola)
Compilation albums:
- Pevniny a vrchy (Mainlands And Hills) - 1997 (Bonton/Slovenský rozhlas)
- Pevniny a vrchy 2 (Mainlands And Hills 2) - 2000 (Sony Music Bonton)
Live:
- Posledný príbeh live (The Last Story Live) - 2000 (Rádio Bratislava)
Single:
- Hra je hra/Stá pieseň o daždi - 1980
Notes
- ^ Big Beat being the name used in Czechoslovakia (and some other countries of the then eastern Europe) that originally indicated the music genre equivalent to what had become known as Beat music in the early 1960s in the western world and later, by the end of 1960s had been used to indicate practically all the underground rock music. It remained in public use for at least one following decade, often referring to rock generally, but it is today used more or less to indicate all the underground rock music of the 1960s, till the early 1970s.