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Toyen
active from year 1989
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indie guitar band, founded by two former members of Letadlo, P. Vaclavek and J. Simecek. Together with Ecstasy Of St. Theresa, pioneers of guitar pop in early 90's in the Czech Republic. Jan Muchow from Ecstasy also produced Toyen recordings. Disbanded about 1997; however, on the occasion of 20th anniversary, the band met together again in the original line-up (Chromovský, Heger, Václavek, Šimeček) and started performing in concerts.


Members:

Jiri Krivka  (1989-1990, since 1993) , guitars, keyboards, piano, programming, arrangement, saxophones
David Ondricek  (1989-1990)
Ivo Heger  (1989-1993) , guitars, keyboards, vocal
Jiri Simecek  (since 1989) , drums, percussion, programming, arrangement
Petr Vaclavek  (since 1989) , bass guitar, arrangement
Petr Chromovsky  (since 1989) , vocal, tambourine, guitars, arrangement
Petr Vana, guitars, keyboards, tambourine, vocal

Discography:

Last Free Swans! , Bonton 1992
Malir smutnej ( Painter The Sad ) , BMG Ariola 1993
Ia Orana , Indies Records 1997
Live At CBGB , Galen 2019

samplers etc.:

Nove horizonty ( New Horizons ) , Monitor 1990 ,
Klaunova zpoved ( Clown's Confession ) , Monitor/EMI 1994

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