SUPER ROBOT

"Super robot" was maybe my first touch of art rock in my age about 10. Along about that time I was listening hard rock or glam rock bands like Sabbath, Slade, Sweet, Nazareth, Kiss etc. But, as I remember, Petřina´s music totally charmed me then. This record had become my favourite up to this day. It is my blood group, sure!

I own this album in rare vinyl form, with substitute cover. It looks like first rock´n´roll covers in 50´s, with simple prints, basic information about track names or band members and with photo of lonely mixing desk in the studio on the front side.

The music is pure crystallic Symphonic Prog, brilliant instrumentation and vocals are self- evident. I think that´s not usual in Czech Prog music which is rather characterized by inclination to jazz or avantgarde.

Anyway, Ota Petřina is a strange solitaire in the context of Czech music of Communist era. He was always so different and defiant the establishment with his visage: long bushy ginger hair and beard. (By the way, today he looks still same, only his hair and beard are little grey.) He is excellent as a composer for himself or for other interpreters and he had collaborated on many projects which becomes genuine treasures of Czech Prog Rock.

Lyrics (in Czech language) are good, intelligent but sometimes naive in todays context (for example, Computer III. Generation: "In dialect of punch cards he sends his messages/ the shortest which I know/ and what´s next?")... Who knows in 21st century what is the punch card, gosh?!

Summary: 4,5 stars rounded to 5. If you thirst after unexceptionable Eastern European Prog Rock, you must to get "Ota Petřina: Super Robot"!

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