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| Identifier: | 669910398265 | role: UPC |
| Title: | Do pul tela / Half-length | |
| Genre: | Art/Blues | Vocabulary: dmGenres |
| Genre: | Popular/Blues | Vocabulary: dmGenres |
| Genre: | Folk Music/Blues | Vocabulary: dmGenres |
| Genre: | Art/Swing | Vocabulary: dmGenres |
| Genre: | Popular/Swing | Vocabulary: dmGenres |
| Genre: | Folk Music/Swing | Vocabulary: dmGenres |
| Description: | The album is a combo of modern and dark "new emotional chanson". Ta Jana is inspired by Prague streetlife and publican songs. Ta Jana z Velké Ohrady - Half-length by Jan Šícha, director of Czech Centre in Munich In the early evening of the last Tuesday of 1999 I was cloning a star in my mind's eye. A Czech, the musician. I'd like to get out of the 20th century, out of 90´s. It must be a woman. She must play cleverly - but I am going to follow her neither to the skies, nor to the tower, nor to the attic. Let her seduce and enchant me. I am looking for a star, that will carry and smuggle for me the essence of things that affected the whole 20th century, from jazz to underground, into the next millennium. I´m not going to give up my taste, but I want it in a different and new manner. And I want her to take our Prague depression, called depka, with her; that strange feeling of emptiness or even being in a trap, that sneaks in, usually uninvited, from full stomach to above the hundred of gold towers. Then I was looking for - and have found Ta Jana z Velké Ohrady. She has far exceeded all of my clones. I examined, what the star shines like, what she acts like or functions, for several times in Munich and Augsburk. Once in front of oldish audience, later on a big stage during a street festival, for the third time in a sophisticated club, in front of a sharp critic. The critic was excited. The band always held up excellently, even the audience that didn´t understand the lyrics was fascinated by its expression. My fear that no fenix will arise from the ashes was dispelled. Rock bands will always arise somehow, consolidated pop music will be all right for years - it will swallow the subsidiary characters of the musicals and make them the highlights of the next time. It is necessary to remark with pathos that the music produced by Ta Jana with three modest musicians is the result of lively and independent culture. This is the real family silver, so much discussed in the times of privatisation. A star that is impossible to privatise. By her second CD she is confirming her viability. In a wider and wider community of fans, with more or less silent electronic media. Everyone who at least sometimes listens to music has already heard musical self-determination of Ta Jana z Velké Ohrady, "a new emotional chanson" or "alternative pop". It´s also widely known, that the beauty of many images from the first CD had been helped by a divorce of the singer, the author of lyrics and music, Jana Husáková, who was renamed to Ta Jana by Pepa Nos. The fans were inquisitive about what she sings, if she does not divorce at the moment: The reviews of the first CD praised the feminity and the manful resolution at the same time, they spoke of an original chanson from the outskirts of Prague and the next minute of the professionalism gained through the knowledge of the parlour genres. The band is on its second CD again attractive by what we can find side by side and together. The new CD "Half-length" evokes on first hearing the atmosphere of concerts - unlikely the first CD, which was substantially less dynamic compared to the live performances. There is less shyness in the new CD, both intentional and subconscious, the music has got its colour, there is less self-irony. Jana invents everything by herself, the music, lyrics and graphics, but you can tell from the new CD, that she is able to use the potential of all the people who are concerned. Three men (drums, piano, double-bass) were enabled to excel. The tradition of Czech country cottage owners - DIY- has reached a splendid position by Ta Jana. The definition of the genre remains the same - from almost chanson to suspicious pop - and every fan recognises their own part. A faithful listener has again in front of him the process of gradual discovery of following-up motives in the music and lyrics, although the whole has got him immediately. The album is more songlike, there are fewer stories in the songs, the woman in the background is less picturable, let alone the possibility to capture her. When the drums start a march, every eyewitness of the 80´s recalls the parades of noisy scruffs, whom, though little powerful, it is not possible to stop any more. One can find a connection with the first CD, the whole looks like a successful form that has a possibility of further development. Classical chanson is a kind of being under the sway - one has in the end no choice but to have a bath full of violets. According to my opinion, Jana has on her new CD maximally succeeded in making use of staying off the genres. She remained provoking and imputing, but she had looked around more. So arised songs that, apart from other things, map the sources and nuances of different kinds of violence. Male violence to women or feminity, the violence of the times to an individual (for many times you can hear in the lyrics a response to the employer... | |
| Contributor: | Black Point Music | role: Record Label |
| Contributor: | Ta Jana z Velke Ohrady | role: Artist |
| Date-issued: | 2005-09-13 | |
| Type: | Sound | |
| Entity Type: | album | |
| Extent: | 00:49:42 | Vocabulary: dmsvExtentTypes role: playing time medium |
| Source: | The Orchard | |
| Source: | http://www.theorchard.com/ | |
| Language: | English | Vocabulary: dmLanguages |
| Relation: | http://www.tajana.cz/ | |
| Has Part: | 1 Do pul tela | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200256 |
| Has Part: | 2 Navod | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200257 |
| Has Part: | 3 Jista | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200258 |
| Has Part: | 4 Jednou mozna | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200259 |
| Has Part: | 5 Kolednice | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200260 |
| Has Part: | 6 Na vode | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200261 |
| Has Part: | 7 Ego | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200262 |
| Has Part: | 8 Klimpr adije | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200263 |
| Has Part: | 9 Veda samota | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200264 |
| Has Part: | 10 Pro inspiraci | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200265 |
| Has Part: | 11 Idyla | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200266 |
| Has Part: | 12 Elce pelce | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200267 |
| Has Part: | 13 L. P. 2500 | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200268 |
| Has Part: | 14 Neco me je (nazor druhé strany) | navigate: BPMU/CZA490200269 |
| Has Sample: | http://econnect.ait.co.at/samples/orchard/669/910/398/669910398265/669910398265_thumb.jpg | role: image |
| Rights: | 2002 Black Point Music | |
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