VA- Czech Up! Vol. 2: We'd Be Happy

Label: Vampi Soul

Released 2018

Czechoslovak prog-funk post-beat psych-jazz pop-baroque party-soul 1968–1979

The Supraphon label was established in the early 1950s in former Czechoslovakia and has been continuously active ever since. While it's always been highly esteemed by music connoisseurs for its excellent classical music releases, Supraphon's pop, rock, and jazz music catalog, although comprising around 60,000 unique tracks, remains for the most part a big unknown to the international audience. Today it also incorporates the complete back catalog of Panton, another Czechoslovak label launched in 1967 that operated independently until the late 1990s. On Czech Up! Vol. 2, Vampisoul again present an array of astounding songs from the otherwise inglorious decade of political and social gloom in Czechoslovakia, a decade that actually started shortly after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in 1968. Here's your chance to meet up with some eccentric fools, wry sarcasm, fountains of cognition, lovers approaching, lovers leaving, faunal fables, bizarre beings, wizardly seasons, ordinary oddities, unearthly gardens, morbid dreams, pretense obedience, melancholy windscapes, wishful thinking, exotic jungles, and eerie ravines. So whether you're hanging loose, shaking a leg, sampling some of this'n'that, or just opening your mind and ears widely, here's 22 more tracks that won't let you down while you're czeching up. 

Track listing:

1. Olympic–    Bláznivej Kiki
   
2. Hana Ulrychová–    A Co Má Bejt
   
3. Mahagon–    Prameny Poznání
   
4. Framus Five Feat. Michal Prokop–    Hold On, I'm Coming
   
5. Apollobeat Feat. Yvonne Přenosilová–    Noční Modlitba
   
6. Beatings–    We'd Be Happy
   
7. Valerie Čižmárová*–    Byls Má Bój
   
8. Gustav Brom Orchestra Feat. Milan Černohouz–    Píšu Křídou Zprávu
   
9. The Blue Effect Feat. Vladimír Mišík–    Snakes
   
10. SHQ–    V Oboře
    
11. Metronom–    Divný Pán
    
12. Synkopy 61–    Bytost Podivná
    
13. Jazz Q ft. Joan Duggan–    The Wizard (Excerpt)
    
14. Vulkán Feat. Martha & Tena–    It's Always Ever The Same
    
15. George & Beatovens Feat. Petr Novák–    Zahrada Za Domem
    
16. Flamengo Feat. Karel Kahovec–    Zavraždil Jsem Lásku
    
17. Eva Pilarová–    Padni Na Kolena (Piece Of My Heart)
    
18. Flamingo ft. Marie Rottrová–    Tvůj Přítel Vítr
    
19. The Soulmen ft. Dežo Ursiny–    I Wish I Were
    
20. Barnodaj–    Džungle
    
21. Hana Zagorová–    Rokle
    
22. Karel Černoch–    Tržnice Světa