Klid! – CD

According to Slvek Janda, this is the most dynamic album in Abraxass history. The bands founder, guitarist and leader attributes its renewed energy partly to last years two-CD tribute to the groups past, but above all to the sixty concerts played in 2014 by Slvek Janda on guitar, synthesizer and vocals, Miroslav Imrich on vocals and show duties, Ivan Dolelek on bass and vocals, and Eduard tpnek on drums. Together with lyricist and manager Petr Soukup, they created eleven songs, somewhat paradoxically named after the albums exceptionally slow track. Abraxas remains the same distinctive combination of rock, funk, disco, Latin music and new-wave momentum. Alongside unmistakable guitar solos, the album features hard-driving rock riffs, radical rapping about irritating people and the tricks of the pharmaceutical industry, reflections on our inner black-and-white nature, and songs about the occasional need simply to dance. Slvek Janda wrote all the music, in two cases adapting ideas from the 1980s to the sound of the present day. The album was recorded and mixed at Cobra studio in Vinohrady, with mastering completed at M8 Service in England. Abraxas returns with full energy and ambitious plans, and these eleven songs are unlikely to leave listeners calm.