Flamengo – Kuře V Hodinkách

Sounds excellent to my ear. Clear across the spectrum, no flaws. Bass are ok. Really good.

The legendary Czech rock album is back! Exactly 40 years have passed since the release of the groundbreaking disc melding electric big beat and Josef Kainar's poetry in a unique symbiosis. Combining immense energy, modern arrangements using wind instruments and, the rather basic recording equipment notwithstanding, a timeless sound, it is an exceptionally compact musical monolith for its time, even in international terms. The producer Hynek Zalck helmed the albums origination and its Supraphon release by getting together young musicians and a blues poet just before his death. Messrs Fort, Khunt, Kubk, Kulh vocabulary in the direction of more colourful pictures, phrases and communications. All this as well as a series of splendid concerts made Kure v Hodinkach (Chicken In The Watch) and absolute prog-rock phenomenon. This album is the starting point of Supraphons plans to rerelease the most interesting recordings from their large archive on LP. It offers excellent progressive Rock in the line-up guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, flute, clarinet and saxophone. For this record Supraphon chose 180 gram vinyl and designed a beautiful black fold out cover which is perfectly manufactured on a high quality cardboard. They reproduced the front page of the original LP from 1972 (which had only a single cover) and added lyrics, photos and same basic information on three more cover pages.

Best digital version of the album. Nice dynamic range and sound overall. Much better then later releases.