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Standard black vinyl edition.

Back in the latter half of the 1960s the burgeoning idiosyncratic group of alternative filmmakers coming out of (then) Czechoslovakia known as the Czech New Wave were taking art house cinemas in Western Europe and America by storm. The hour long films that came out of the infamous Barrandov production house played a competitive rival to that of the French and Italian New Waves with their very own immaculate and spellbinding takes on cinema verité, film noir, surrealism and cinema concrète. But after the Soviet Union invaded Czech in August 1968 the clampdown on non-conformist creative arts saw over seventy films either banned or withdrawn from production in a mass culling of film reels until 1970.

It is not until recent years that the genre has become widely recognised as a veritable and virtually untapped source of inspiration for fans of experimental cinema, psychedelic cinematography, baroque costumes and scenery, music and graphic design.

Daisies pulls together what you might call the 'Holy Trinity’ of the Czech New Wave – director Vera Chytilová, costume and set designer Esther Krumbachová, and cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera – arguably the three most forward-thinking and truly experiMENTAL minds in the whole of the CNW collective. Witness Les Petites Margeurites (original French theatrical title) as they mischievously flutter through Prague’s finest restaurants accompanying middle-aged men on flamboyant double dates in gastronomic ménage à trois – “If the world spoils itself, then we shall be spoiled as well” decide the two bikini clad button-cute Maries in the films opening scenes.

The radical and experimental nature of Daisies is further enhanced by its erratic score which consists of the juxtaposition of various non-melodic elements and sound effects, laden with a broad palette of samples and snippets of choral and classical vintage recordings spliced with concréte effects, traditional brass band music, Disney style exotica, Charleston dance standards and token 60’s beat tracks.

Originally prepared for public consumption by Finders Keepers in 2007 and available once again as part of our ongoing (and slightly disrupted) 15th birthday celebrations this immaculate release was taken from the original reels and compiled in close accordance to the original storyline and comes complete with unseen archive images, original international poster designs and new and extensive sleevenotes.

Trackliste

A1 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Sedmikrásky (Main Theme)
A2 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Peach Tree Thieves
A3 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Red Carpet
A4 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Three's A Crowd
A5 Eva Pilerova - Drunken Disorderlies
A6 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Dead Men Tell No Tales
A7 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - The Juggler
A8 Jan Klusák - The Butterfly Cabinet
A9 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Sugar Stealers
A10 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Burning Ribbons (Phone Call One)
B1 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Girlies Girlies
B2 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Man With A Typewriter (Phone Call Two)
B3 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Bath Of Milk
B4 Marie Cesková - Roses Red Roses Red
B5 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Cuckoos
B6 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Scissors
B7 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Beggars Banquet
B8 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Food Fight
B9 Jiří Šust & Jiří Šlitr - Strip-Teas