Katapult
Katapult 2006 / Katapult 2006 anglická verze
Upozornění: Zvýrazněny jsou skladby, na kterých se podílel umělec Oldřich Říha. ×
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Three-piece rock outfit Katapult belongs to the latest recording acts in Czecgislovakia, but its members have been around for more than ten years playing in various local bands. Like most of the rock musicians who are now in their thirties, they started on songs from early Rolling Stones and Kinks albums and matured on the Beatles. Singer Oldřich Říha who plays guitar and writes the songs as well, was a long time attraction in a band led by drummer František Ringo Čech which combined hard rock with comedy. In 1974 Říha formed a strictly rock-oriented trio which later became Katapult. Next year he left Čech and started to work extensively in clubs and ballrooms.
The reaction of the audience was very surprising. The new band gained nationwide following a long time before the release of their first single. On the other hand, Katapult's success was quite natural. There weren't any other rock bands in the country acceptable for teenage audiencess - the established groups were to sophisticated and withdrawn for the general taste. Katapult successfully filled the gap with steady beat and direct, uncomplicated melodies, which brought them various attacks from the rock critics.
Both remaining members of the trio came from similar musical background as Oldřich Říha. Bass guitarist and occasional singer Jiří Šindelář played with Říha in early sixties in various local bands in Plzeň in the western part of Czechoslovakia. Anatoli Kohout is and expirienced session man and played with almost every band that was formed in Prague during the last decade. He left the group a couple of months after completing this album and was replaced by Jiří Stárek, 27-year-old musician, who played drums and made instrumentál arrangements for František Ringo Čech and has a degree from the Prague Academy of Musical Arts.
Katapult's first album was recorded in a concert in 1977; the group tried to make it as raw and direct as possible and added no overdubs. This is the second LP and it was recorded in Prague during June 1979. The songs are much more varied in style and sometimes even softer than the materiál on the first LP. On some of the tracks the musicians collaborated with Ota Petřina, a friend, guitar player and very talented wizard of the local recording studios. Petřina has worked for years as a session man, songwriter and arranger and recorded an album of his own songs.
Ladislav Vostárek, the group's lyricist, is in the fact a fourth member of the trio. He spends a lot of time with musicians and oftem joins the band on tours. The language of his lyrics helped to create the specific image of the group. He keeps the words on the same level as the music - simple and direct. English translations of the songs contrained on this album were made vy a Prague literature student Vladimír Kočandrle.
(sleeve-note: Petr Dorůžka, 1980)
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