Neckář, Václav & Bacily
Planetárium

  • Format: LP
  • Band: Neckář, Václav & Bacily
  • Title: Planetárium
  • Band's Origin: CS
  • Style: progressive Rock
  • Rating: 4
  • Release Year: 2020
  • Recording Year: 1976-1977
  • Production Year: 1977/2010
  • Record Company: Supraphon
  • Item's Number: SU 6713-1
  • Color of the Label: coloured
  • Edition: 2020
  • Extras: 180 gram vinyl, fold out cover, inner sleeves
  • EAN: 099925671310
  • Weight: 581 g
Grading
  • Visual: m-
  • Acoustic:
  • Cover: ex+

Supraphon Release Information



Welcome 2LP reissue of Neckář’s legendary project

The 1977 set undoubtedly belongs to the golden archive of Czechoslovak popular music. To Václav Neckář’s outstanding vocal performance must be added his traditional gift for using all the nuances of the lyrics. He had a lot to choose from: Michael Prostějovský, Zdeněk Rytíř, Vladimír Čort or Jiřina Fikejzová provided him with extraordinary starting points. There was, of course, much to text, when the music of Ota Petřina, Petr Janda or Jan Neckář invited us to break away from civility.

The form of the conceptual double album is also matched by the arrangements, using unconventional methods, filling the pauses between the individual pieces with sound foregrounds. The point is not to have a unifying space theme, but to hold the whole together, which was done perfectly. The hidden undertones of legitimate fear for the environment or the existence of our planet had a real core, among other things, in the state of nature in some areas of the ČSSR. Under the chemical corrosion of the forests of the Ore Mountains, it was possible to hide the devastation of culture and society, typical of the normalisation of the late 1970s – Planetarium can be a bit about that, too.

In the current 2LP re-release, enjoy songs like “Potulný hráč” (The Wandering Player), “Diamantová žena” (Diamond Woman) or “Hvězdné nebe nad Atlantidou”(Starry Sky over Atlantis), the reconstruction of the cover and sound, and the fact that the theme and performance have not aged.

Tracklist



Side A


1. Planetárium – vchod 4:12
2. Světová výstava 3:57
3. Diamantová žena 6:42
4. Stále šťastné údolí 4:09
5. Potulný hráč 3:57

Side B


1. To se stává 5:02
2. Meteor 3:57
3. Pět světelných let 4:21
4. Jako kouzlem 2:53
5. Planetárium 6:21

Side C


1. Lásko, tři, dva, jedna a start 4:30
2. Sluneční vítr 3:01
3. Zimní královna nejdelších nocí 4:53
4. Klaun a tanečnice 6:24

Side D


1. Hvězdné nebe nad Atlantidou 2:23
2. Známe ho, žádný vzor 1:54
3. Co je to svět 2:29
4. Nejsem hvězda 2:34
5. První i poslední 2:50
6. Swingující Jupiter 0:54
7. Stroj času 4:57
8. Planetárium – východ 4:18