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Oldřich Janota

Oldřich Janota
Janota in 2018
Janota in 2018
Background information
Born(1949-08-27)27 August 1949
Plzeň, Czechoslovakia
Died27 July 2024(2024-07-27) (aged 74)
Czech Republic
GenresFolk
OccupationSinger-songwriter
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1970s–2024
LabelsIndies Scope
Websitewww.oldrichjanota.com

Oldřich Janota (27 August 1949 – 27 July 2024) was a Czech singer-songwriter. He is known for incorporating minimalist and experimental techniques into folk music, as well as working with pre-recorded tapes.

Biography

Janota was born in Plzeň and studied journalism at 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 8-CD 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]

Janota died on 27 July 2024, at the age of 74.[4]

Discography

  • 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)

References

  1. ^ a b Jonssonová, Pavla (2019). Devět z české hudební alternativy osmdesátých let (in Czech). Prague: Karolinum. pp. 172–184. ISBN 978-80-246-4328-1.
  2. ^ "Oldřich Janota: Pamatuju se, jak jsem poprvé viděl v televizi Karla Gotta". MAČ365 (in Czech). Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Špulák, Jaroslav (27 July 2024). "Zemřel písničkář Oldřich Janota". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%C5%99ich_Janota