Janota, Oldrich
years active: 1970 - 2024
  

a genious singer and songwriter of Czech musical scene of 70's and 80's. With "Mozart K" band (with characteristical sound of harmonium) he played a hard depressive music that might be a good inspiration for Tom Waits as well as Depeche Mode, should they have known him. At the same time, he had a more fragile side, singing magical music & lyrics just with a guitar. Though master recordings exist from Bratislava Radio from that time, it has never been released. <br /> Finally in 2000, some live recordings from that time were released as an inlay (CD #6) of "Stereo & Video"magazine. Album (8) finally contains a representative collection of live recordings of that time. In mid-80's Janota radically changes style, experiments with minimal & ambient music which is still very interesting but never so impressive as what he was doing back in early 80's.

Discography:

Neviditelne veci ( Invisible Things ) , Panton 1990 ,

Oldrich Janota , Panton 1990 ,

Zlute ( In Yellow ) , Zona 1994 ,

Sesite ( Stitched Up ) , Indies 1996 ,

Podzimni kral ( Autumn King ) , Stereo a video 2000 ,

Jako mesic ( Like A Moon ) , Spojene nahody s.r.o 2003 ,

Posveceni noveho mesice ( New Moon Sanctification ) , Oldrich Janota 2011 ,

Zatlankou , O. Janota 2022 ,

compilations / live recs.:

Ultimate Nothing , Indies Scope 2016 ,

SP / EP:

Cesty 15 , Panton 1989 ,

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