The debut album from this band from the Czech Republic.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of tambourine, drums, bass, guitars, claves, bonos, shaker, organ, piano, harpsichord, keyboards and vocals.
The band was helped out by a chorus, woodwinds and strings orchestra.
This is their debut album and my first ever meeting with this band. I got their six albums and reviews of the five remaining albums will follow later this fall.
All of their albums was released between 1971 and 1987. They were released behind the then Iron Curtain and the stalinist dictatorship did not approve of Western pop music. Something the band tried to play and record. This in some sub-standard record studios. The band had to make some artistic compromises to stay out of jail.... or in worst cases; avoid a lenghty stay in their occupier Sovietunion's Siberia. Not a nice place.... Not even these days.
Their debut album is mix of beat music, folk music and some progressive rock. It feels chaotic and their version of We Can Work It Out (The Beatles classic) is not a good one.
I understand their struggle against all odds. This album is still best avoidable as the music is only half-decent.
I hope their other albums is better than this one.
1.5 points
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