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Acorn Hill House, Krumville, NY
12447 STEREO © 1969 by United International Copyright Representatives Ltd. ESP-Disk LTD Karel Velebny / SHQ [release title on back cover and center labels] Karel Velebny /// SHQ [release title on spine] ——— Track title B3 is misspelt, correct Czech spelling: “Andulko Šafářová”. Liner notes also refer to the group as the “S+H Quartet”. Uncredited: recorded in Germany, April 1967. Note: the catalog# can be read either way. |
In February, 1968, as the false Spring of hope was rising in occupied Czechoslovakia, ESP instructed Karl Velebny to record his group of improvisers during their upcoming tour of Germany. In April, 1968, the clandestine project was completed. Karel survived a terrible auto crash and sent photographs to ESP, which were utilized on the LP cover as a symbolic reference to the plight of the Czech people.
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Jiri Stivin: alto sax, flute, recorder |
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All compositions by Karel Velebny except Beetles On The
Head by Jiri Stivin (ESP Disk' Ltd. ASCAP). Credits Recorded in Germany 1968. Production Manager: Tom Abbs.
Tape transfer & mastering by Stephen Walcott. Design & layout by Miles
Bachman, Michael Sanzone & Fumi Tomita. "Velebny shows how imagination and artistry make compact
bedfellows. His discography is sketchy and his music is not easily available,
which makes this CD one to treasure." "It is a memorable set of music that tears up the walls
between the new thing of the sixties and the bebop of Bird that much of the '60s
music sought to deconstruct." |
