Date of release: 24/04/2015

Polls of experts and listeners ranked this set of fourteen songs for guitar, voice and words as the most important thing to happen. In addition to his undoubted musical, singing and poetic quality, Bratříček also became a symbol for social contexts around 1968 and beyond. Karel Kryl was given only a very short concert contact with Czech and Slovak audiences by fate, this album only received the first edition and was banned after Kryl's emigration in the fall of 1969. The singer's subsequent work abroad had an important unofficial response in the form of smuggled LPs and cassettes plus radio broadcasts, but songs from Bratříček have become the strongest part of our lives. Each of those names evokes a story, a memory, a sing-along at home, by the campfire, on the water, anywhere where there wasn't a fiddle nearby. The title track, but also Salome, Majesty the Executioner, Angel, Pieta, Song of the Unknown Soldier or Morituri te salutant have become anthems of quiet defiance, in the repertoire of everyone with the ability to sing, play - and understand them.