Today's featured album suggestion comes from Progmatic. Here's a nice little nugget from Czech country that goes pretty well unnoticed.
Description from GEPR
MCH stands for Miklas Chadima, guitar and sax player and founder of this band from Prague. Chadima was one of the most important figures of the Czechoslovakian rock scene. Since 1972 he played in several bands and as he signed the Charta 77 his activities resulted in continuous persecutions, interrogations and investigations by the Czechoslovakian secret police. On the rare occasions he was allowed to travel abroad he went to London, playing with Art Bears and This Heat. MCH Band was founded in 1982. They published several cassettes and few of their songs were published on compilations (e.g. on the RecRec Quarterly Vol.1 No.1 in 1985). After the fall of the iron curtain they recorded this double LP (one CD, distributed by Recommended No Man's Land) [Es Reut Mich F ...] in 1990. As the liner notes put it: "The Music of MCH Band can be called Prague music. We can find here the coolness of gothic cathedrals, richness of baroque palaces and the tragicomic atmosphere that is typical for Czech-German-Jewish inhabitants of Prague, stigmatised by nazi and communist terror." The band consists of four musicians (guitar/sax, keyboards, bass and drums) and they sing in Czech and German. The music is neo-classical prog., very dark and sinister, very quiet and very dramatic on the other hand. The relation to other Czech bands of the early 9ties is quite obvious (Domaci Kapela, Ser Un Pejalero). People who like Univers Zero (Heresie) should try to find this one! -- Achim Breiling
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