štvrtok 16. mája 2024

IGNORE - New World Disorer

 

Bulharský anarcho-punk/HC z ranných 90´ tych rokov.


Anarcho-punk band from Varna, Bulgaria

Formed in 1993 by members of the bands Confront and Indignity.















https://ignorepunk.bandcamp.com/album/new-world-disorder

utorok 14. mája 2024

Icecross (Iceland, 1973)


ICECROSS - Islandský 70´s hard-rock/psych-rock.













https://archive.org/details/icecross-1973



Copenhagen in the autumn of 1972, the crucible for Icelandic hippies, where the Free State of Kristiania held the promise of a better world where everyone was equal, providing according to available resources, partaking as needed. We celebrated the one year anniversary of Kristiania gathered around a great bonfire and promised to turn the Free State into a model of cooperation, togetherness and solidarity a sort of primal Christianity.

The club Revolution in Copenhagen was the place to listen to live music, all the latest and freshest. Usually it was rather bland stuff, I found, but the there appeared this amazing rock band, so amazing that we were left gaping and staring Icecross hard as nails and supertight. When the boys had finished playing they mingled with the audience, having a beer or perhaps lighting up a pipe. It turned out they were Icelanders living in Kristiania with big dreams - fully justified judging from their performance that night.

For several reasons Icecross never made it. My understanding was that they got tired of the struggle abroad and wanted to go back home. They did, however manage to cut a record bearing the name of the group. A superb record I listened to a lot, until it gave way to newer music lying in the stack but enjoying short-lived revivals off and on over the next few years until it suffered the inevitable fate: too scratched and contaminated with booze to be playable.

Decades later, searching for old music, I started to come accross the record here and there on collectors' lists and for no small change - one wanted to buy it for $200 and another to sell it for $500. People were starting to talk about “the legendary and mysterious Icecross” but there were far fewer sellers than potential buyers.

As time went more and more copies started cropping up and further investigation revealed that the record had been reissued in various places. One owner offered for sale a record which had been published in Holland, another had a copy from Italy, and suddenlty someone was advertising a CD made in Korea. Everything strictly illegal but showing the widespread call for this marvelllous recording.

The Internet revitalized the sale of Icecross. At the time of this writing, a simple Google search reveals at least five different bootleg publishers which bears witness to the place accorded to Icecross in the history of rock music.

Arni Valdimarsson


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Pozri aj: 


https://muzika-komunika.blogspot.com/2023/02/various-rock-from-cold-seas-1999.html


https://muzika-komunika.blogspot.com/2022/11/grylurnar-mavastelli-genreelectronic.html

nedeľa 7. apríla 2024

Dvouletá fáma v Junior klubu Na Chmelnici (20. listopadu 1982)

 

DVOULETÁ FÁMA - naživo na Chmelnici (1982)


1981-1984 :::: Dvouletá fáma (I.)

Hudební skupina působící začátkem 80. let, alternativní bigbít ve stylu nové vlny: Jana Macháčková - zpěv; Martin Vik - kytara; Ivan Benda - baskytara; Zdeněk Konopásek - bicí, zpěv.


Moje první pražská kapela. Koncerty jsme měli hlavně v Praze na Chmelnici, tu a tam mimo Prahu. Poslouchali jsme a milovali např. The Residents a Snakefingera, XTC, B52s, Public Image Ltd a další - a tak nějak se to všechno propojilo dohromady. Dvouletá fáma působila v téhle sestavě v letech 1981-84. Pak se opět sešla v poněkud hrubší podobě a obměněné sestavě v letech 1987-1990 (Dvouletá fáma II.).











http://zdenek.konopasek.net/index.php?m=111


https://dvouleta-fama.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-chmelnice-november-20-1982














Jeden z vůbec prvních koncertů rané Dvouleté fámy (1981-83) a zároveň první v Junior klubu Na Chmelnici - remasterováno! (Zdroj muzika-info/source: http://zdenek.konopasek.net/)


1981-1984 :::: Dvouletá fáma [Two-year rumour] (I.)

New wave band of early 80s: Jana Macháčková - vocals; Martin Vik - guitar; Ivan Benda - bass; Zdeněk Konopásek - drums, vocals.


My first band in Prague. We played concerts mainly at the legendary Chmelnice club in Prague, occasionally elsewhere. Our favorite bands of the time were, for instance, The Residents and Snakefinger, XTC, B52s, Public Image Ltd - and all this somehow melted together in our music. Several years after this lineup splitted up, in late 1980s, the band was reformed and got darker and rougher - Dvouletá fáma II.). 


Zdenek Konopásek web page


ENGLISH INFO:

This is a "remastered" and edited original live recording of Dvouletá fáma from 1982 (November 20). It was one of its first public appearances ever and the first concert at the Junior Klub Na Chmelnici in Prague. In its first half, the concert had originally included four completely improvised pieces (cca 17 minutes in total), which were dropped out for this edition. Most of the songs, but not all of them, appeared in "studio" versions on a compilation double CD released by the BlackPoint label in 2001 [BP-0012-2]. The sound of the live show was polished and edited for this edition in 2021 by Milan Voříšek (who had attended in person the concert in 1982).

See more information about Dvouletá fáma and also some more pictures at zdenek.konopasek.net/index.php?m=86 (English and Czech).


IGNORE - New World Disorer