Quicksands (album) explained

Tekuté písky
Type:	studio
Artist:	Karel Kryl
Border:	yes
Released:	1990
Recorded:	1989–1990
Studio:	Martin Kratochvíl Studio
Genre:	Folk
Label:	Bonton
Producer:	Jiří Černý

Tekuté písky (Quicksands) is a folk album by Karel Kryl, issued in Czechoslovakia by Bonton in 1990.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Songs for the album were selected by Jiří Černý, who previously worked with Kryl on his most successful album Close the Gate, Little Brother (1969). The album was recorded in the studio of Martin Kratochvíl.^[4]

The lyrics to the title track opener Quicksands is adaptation of the poem Wedding Song by Jaroslav Seifert.^[5] The lyrics to closer Velvet Spring is Kryl's reflection on the Velvet Revolution.

Track listing

1. Tekuté písky (Quicksands)
2. Ignác (Ignatius)
3. Dvacet (Twenty)
4. Ukolébavka (The Lullaby)
5. Irena (Irene)
6. Vůně (The Scent)
7. Blátivá stráň (Slushy Hillside)
8. Kyselý sníh (Acid Snow)
9. Září (September)
10. Sametové jaro (Velvet Spring)

Trivia

• In 1993, the songs Quicksands and Velvet Spring were included on the compilation The Best (To nejlepší). "The Best Is Yet to Come!" was Kryl's protest of the selected album title (according to an interview for the Czech edition of Playboy.^[6])

References

1. Roman Jireš, Deska na víkend, Mladá fronta DNES, 2 March 1991
2. -jh-, Karel Kryl, Tekuté písky, Akord 7/1991
3. Ivan Hartman, Statistíce lidí si hrají písně svého "bratříčka", Lidové noviny, 30 January 1997
4. Ječmínek 2/1990, page 6
5. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, Czech Folk Music in the 1960s–80s from the Point of View of the Sociology of Religion, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2003 (Nešpor compares verses of Seiferts's poem with Kryl's song) pdf
6. Playboy (Czech edition), March 1994