KAREL KRYL BRATRICKU ZAVIREJ VRATKA 1969 PANTON 010201 PRESSING FINE CZECH LP
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Description
This is the first pressing, not the 1990 reissue.
The vinyl is as good as you will ever see. Since it is an open album, it can't be a 10/10 but there is a little dust and that is it. The vinyl is in exceptionally good condition. Please see photos. The plastic sleeve is also near immaculate. The outer paper sleeve is not the thick cardboard US pressings get. It is thin paper and it has the circular impression of the vinyl visible front and back (photo 1,2,12). There is a little corner damage (photo 4 & 5) and two short tears at the open end (photo 3 & 4), one right where the still attached Karel Kryl tab is located (photo 3). Toning to the white portion of the sleeve.
Brat?í?ku, zavírej vrátka (English: Close the Gate, Little Brother) is the debut album by Karel Kryl, issued in Czechoslovakia by the record company Panton in 1969. The album was recorded in Ostrava between 1967-1968. It was produced by Ji?í ?erný, who also wrote the liner notes. The cover features a photograph by Josef Koudelka.
Karel Kryl (April 12, 1944 Krom??íž – March 3, 1994 Munich) was an iconic Moravian singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he identified and attacked the stupidity and inhumanity of the Communist and later also post-communist regimes in his home country.
The lyrics of Karel Kryl's songs are highly poetic and sophisticated, with a frequent use of metaphors and historical allusions. The sparse sounds of an accompanying acoustic guitar served to underscore the natural flow of the lyrics themselves. In certain respects—especially the complexity of his lyrics and his accompaniment by a single acoustic guitar—Kryl was similar to a young Bob Dylan. However, unlike Dylan, the Czech singer had a smooth and pure voice, which gave a hauntingly sad quality to his mournful lyrics. He was bitterly critical of the new regime established after the collapse of communism in his country, including of Václav Havel, and those who were responsible for the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1992.
When the Warsaw Pact armies occupied Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, to suppress the Prague Spring reform movement, Kryl released his first album. The title song Brat?í?ku zavírej vrátka (Keep the Gate Closed, Little Brother) was composed spontaneously on 22.8. 1968 as an immediate reaction to the occupation. The album described his perception of the inhumanity of the regime and his views on life under communist rule. The album was released in early 1969 and was banned and removed from shelves shortly after.
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