Vechno je promnliv – Zakzan koncerty

This CD presents recently discovered recordings of uncensored songs by Jan Vodansk and Petr Skoumal from the 1970s and early 1980s. From their first appearances at Pragues inohern klub in the 1960s, the duo faced constant censorship, which intensified during the early years of normalization and eventually drove them from Prague stages to railway venues and student clubs. Most of the recordings come from the archive of sound engineer and collector Petr Benesch, with two songs from Jan Vodansks archive. Their exact location and date cannot be established, but they clearly come from the early 1980s, shortly before the definitive ban on the duos collaboration. In the freer atmosphere of university clubs, the pair could perform texts that could not otherwise be published, adding ever more verses to songs approved by the censors and responding to totalitarian repression with wit, irony and nonsense. The Czech-language tracklist includes Povd matka Bedie, Hluch tety, Dv deci vodky, Toho dne el impanz do penze, Ono to plouch, O m krse, Pepo, pj, J jsem toti nmonk, Stzin kozek, Jsou chvle, kdy i klaun, Pse masra, Petra, Maminko, tatnku, ne, Generln konzul, emk v ovzdu, Vynlez Francie, S Kateinou pod peinou sm, Cesta na Bajkal, Orientln pion and Vechno je promnliv.