HANA A PETR ULRYCHOVİ / JAVORY
ZPÍVÁNÍ / SINGING
Folk Songs from Moravia
Panton, 1982, 8117 0209 G
Hana and Petr Ulrych (sister and brother) were famous rock singers in Czekoslovakia from the late 1960s. Their band ''Javory'' (meaning ''maples'') was formed in 1974 and was a two-sided group : one folk side, Javory, with acoustic instruments like violins, cymbalom and double bass and one rock side, Javory Beats, with electric instruments. The members were different ones in either bands though. Hana and Petr were therefore interested in several types of music.
The presentation text says that they acted similarly to Alan Stivell or Steeleye Span but the result sounds more like folklore than modern revival à la Stivell.
However it is well delivered. The singing is well done in the ''national music'' style and the repertoire consists of eighteen traditional songs and four compositions by Fanoš Mikulecký (real name František Hřebačka) who was a Slovakian composer, folklorist, playwriter and painter. He died in 1970 and several of his songs are well known everywhere in Czekoslovakia like Vínečko Bílé (white wine) sung here by the men of the band.
Note that tracks A7 and A8, A10 and A11 as well as B5 and B6 are copied together.
Panton was created in 1968 in Prague but disappeared in the early 1990s.
Text in Czech and English.
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