Czeching In

Czeching In Artist: Various Artists
Label: Skoda Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD


UPC: 793066000526
EAN: 0793066000526
ASIN: B000002XXZ


Release Date: 1996-05-07

Czeching In


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Tracks:

  1. Svetelny Narez - Sum Svistu
  2. Kotva a Kriz - Ticha Dohoda
  3. Vodopady - Zuby Nehty
  4. Negdy - Mnaga A. Zdorp
  5. Zustanes Sam - Laura A Jeji Tygri
  6. Vlky - Tornado Lue
  7. Jednou - Duna J
  8. Loutka - Sto Zvirat
  9. Jassica - Uz Jsme Doma
  10. To Teda Ne - YoYo Band
  11. Chtel Bych Se Jmenovat Jan

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Cool foreign music.......2000-05-11

Coolest music, great stuff, even though i don't enderstand one word of it

5 out of 5 stars A Whirlwind Tour On Czech Pop.......2000-04-16

Thanks to years spent behind the Iron Curtain, Czech popular music still doesn't really have any established distribution in the West. (Classical and folk music are a different story.) Fortunately, inroads are being made by small independent upstart companies and this collection is a sampler of one such company. Based in Delaware, Skoda Records is the U.S. distributor of the band 'Uz jsme doma.' In addition to this band, 'Czeching In' also contains samples of ten other groups.

Following the opening 'Light Explosion' by Sum Svistu, (it's an instrumental cross between Devo's 'Bread and Butter' and David Byrne at his tropical best), Tichá Dohoda (Silent Agreement) delivers 'Anchor and Cross.' It features Blanka Srumová's strong vocals. 'Waterfalls' by the Go Go's sound-alike Zuby Nehty is followed by Mnaga a Zdorp's 'Sometimes' This band is best known for its unusual name and depressing lyrics. The oriental sounding 'You Remain Alone' by Laura a jeji tygri isn't too upbeat either. The rather disturbing 'Wolves' by Tornádo Lue leads to an even more twisted 'One Day' by Dunaj.

Unfortunately the next track, Sto zvírat's 'Puppet, 'breaks the mold; it is the weakest link of this album. But Uz jsme doma's instrumental 'Jassica' makes up for the low spot. The liner notes contain a story of a grey whale (Jassica) who falls in love with a sailor and gives birth to a baby giraffe also named Jassica. The whole saga is illustrated by Martin Velísek, the band's sixth member.

The final two cuts bring us back to Earth (albeit slightly skewed Earth). First, Yoyo Band unleashes 'No, Not That' from their first album Karviná and then Buty closes with 'I'd Like To Be Called John.'

And so, this collection takes us on a whirlwind tour, from the silly tropical beginning to the bottom of the ocean - and back up again. Skoda Records did an excellent job packaging this collection with pictures and complete lyrics in Czech and English. Czeching In presents an accurate representation of the contemporary music scene and I wish the young company all the success.

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Pimpin on Crutches ~ Warsaw Poland Brothers
  2. Just Say Mao: Volume III of Just Say Yes ~ Various Artists
  3. H2O ~ Hall & Oates
  4. Membranaphonics ~ Various Artists
  5. Perfect Cure
  6. Marathon ~ Saga
  7. Riffs ~ Status Quo
  8. The Big Picture ~ Cotton Mather
  9. Best of Jimmy Little
  10. Smoke and Dragonflies ~ Scot Little Bihlman

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Music Album

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Electric ~ Larry Coryell, Victor Bailey, Lenny White

Jass Two ~ Charleston

Music CD 16

All Night Through ~ Klaus Weiss Sextet

Live in Concert ~ Dave Brubeck

Anthologie: 1970-75 ~ Johnny Hallyday

Nada Automatico ~ DeTetives

My Name Is Blue ~ Mayumi Kojima

I've Got a Feeling ~ Who I Em

Rhapsody ~ Kaori Hisano