Oldřich_Janota
Oldřich Janota
Czech musician (born (1949)
Oldřich Janota (born 27 August 1949) is a Czech singer-songwriter. He is known for incorporating minimalist and experimental techniques into folk music, as well as working with pre-recorded tapes.
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Born | (1949-08-27) 27 August 1949 (age 74) Plzeň, Czechoslovakia |
Genres | Folk |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Labels | Indies Scope |
Website | www |
Janota was born in Plzeň and studied journalism at the Charles University in Prague, graduating in 1975. That same year he started playing with Jakub Noha [cs]. Together with some other musicians, they founded the band Pentagram in 1977. He was a member of Mozart K along with guitarist and sitarist Emil Pospíšil [cs] and saxophonist Jan Štolba [cs] between 1978 and 1983.[1]
His collected lyrics were published in the book Kytaru s palmou in 2015. An 8CD box set of his songs from the 1970s to the present was released in 2016, titled Ultimate Nothing.[2][3]
In 2009, a 17-track tribute album Ztracený ve světě: A Tribute to Oldřich Janota was released to mark his 60th birthday.[1]
- Winter Days (1989)
- Oldřich Janota (1990, later reissued as Mezi vlnami)
- Neviditelné věci (1990)
- Jiná rychlost času (1993)
- Žlutě (1994)
- Sešité (1996)
- Podzimní král (2000)
- High Fidelity (2001)
- Jako měsíc (2003)
- Ora pro nobis (2009)
- Posvěcení nového měsíce (2011)
- Kojoko (2014)
- Ultimate Nothing (2016)
- Vzpomínáš, Méďo? (2022)
- Zatlankou (2022)
- Jonssonová, Pavla (2019). Devět z české hudební alternativy osmdesátých let (in Czech). Prague: Karolinum. pp. 172–184. ISBN 978-80-246-4328-1.
- "Oldřich Janota: Pamatuju se, jak jsem poprvé viděl v televizi Karla Gotta". MAČ365 (in Czech). Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- Bezr, Ondřej (8 March 2016). "Od folku přes vypískání folkaři zase k folku, to je Oldřich Janota". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- Oldřich Janota discography at Discogs