Kalemegdan Disk - ROCK FROM EASTERN EUROPE

Tracklist

1. Ke zdi 3:05
2. Na zdraví 4:43
3. Johanka z parku 3:23
4. Na okraj srázu 3:52
5. Ochún 3:57
6. Strach 3:08
7. Hele 4:10
8. Co bylo, nebude 1:02
9. Hrr na ně 5:31
10. Za pět minut 4:35

Full album at YouTube

Supraphon Release Information

Domestic recordings from 1990 sometimes had a difficult fate. The overwhelming social events of the time and the logical joy of the public at the sudden availability of foreign repertoire may have reduced interest in Czechoslovakian novelties. To a certain extent, this was also true of the album “Ke zdi” (To the Wall), the third by the quintet Nerez. After “Masopust” (Carnival) and “Na vařené nudli” (On a Boiled Noodle), containing mostly concert-tested and listener-loved songs, now came songs of the same quality, but unknown.

They were given a modern sound, superbly recorded in Petr Kocfelda’s studio, and also more electric, perhaps a bit in the footsteps of Sting or Peter Gabriel. Zdeněk Vřešťál describes the unusal circumstances of the album’s cover art creation – and as it sometimes happens, the original complications turned into advantages over time. Unique melodies and lyrics, brilliant singing by Zdeněk Vřešťál, Vít Sázavský and Zuzana Navarová, both solo and jointly, excellent support from Vladimír Vytiska’s double bass and Václav Bratrych’s wind instruments, plus helpful guests, a complete piece of excellent music.

As with previous reissues, the cover has been revised and updated this year by the original graphic artist Michal Cihlář, and the sound has been remastered. This year’s two anniversaries of Zuzana Navarová and the associated autumn commemorations are an extra challenge, but just listening to the album “Ke zdi” (To the Wall) is a chance to discover an unjustly forgotten treasure.

The paths of the three main protagonists have since diverged, but their studio trilogy is one of the absolute perennials of our music without any stylistic fluff.