Janota | it

Tireless seeker unbeaten paths unmistakable singer and guitarist, poet, and occasionally trenchant columnist Oldřich Janota started performing in the seventies with folk ballads. From 1977 to 1979 he played with James Leg and other musicians in Prague group Pentagram. The search for new expressive possibilities led him to establish a set of Mozart K. (1978 to 1981) with an unusual instrumental combination (harmonium, saxophone, mandolin, guitar, drums) and later to work with experimental rock and minimal music in collaboration with Paul Richter and Luboš Fidler (1981-1984). In 1985, Janota time left on the music scene altogether. He went quietly to...