Quicksands (album)
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Tekuté písky (Quicksands) is a folk album by Karel Kryl, issued in Czechoslovakia by company Bonton in 1990.[1][2][3]
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]
Lyrics of the opening song Quicksands is adaptation of poem Wedding Song by Jaroslav Seifert.[5] Lyrics of the closing song Velvet Spring is Kryl's reflection on the Velvet Revolution.[1]
Track listing
- Tekuté písky (Quicksands)
- Ignác
- Dvacet (Twenty)
- Ukolébavka (Lullaby)
- Irena (Irene)
- Vůně
- Blátivá stráň (Slushy Hillside)
- Kyselý sníh (Acid Snow)
- Září (September)
- Sametové jaro (Velvet Spring)
Trivia
- In 1993 songs Quicksands and Velvet Spring were included in compilation The Best (To nejlepší). "The best is yet to come!", protested Kryl against the title chosen for the album in an interview for the Czech edition of Playboy.[6]
References
- ^ 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, Statisíce 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