Open Your Eyes


  • Recorded: 23rd April 2010
  • Record Place: studio HAMU
  • First Release: 2020
  • (P) 2020 Animal Music
  • Genre: Jazz

Artists

  • music by: Karel Růžička st.
  • piano: Karel Růžička st.

Album

Karel Růžička st.

Garden of Silence

Catalogue Number: ANI086-2
Published: 25th September 2020
Genre: Jazz
Format: 1 CD
This year, the outstanding Czech pianist and composer Karel Růžička (1940-2016) would celebrate his eightieth birthday. To mark this occasion, Animal Music releases, four years after the artist's death, the last album recorded by Růžička in 2010, which never came out during his lifetime. The recent discovery of the recording amounts to coming upon a precious treasure. In it, Růžička returns to the sphere of solo-piano recording in which he first excelled in his album "Zahrada radosti" (The Garden of Joy) in 1981. "Garden of Silence" presents an astounding medley of moods in pensive and playful pieces by Růžička which confirm his remarkable gift for melodies and his reputation as an unsurpassable performer and improviser.
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1. Open Your Eyes 05:03
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2. Theloniously Yours 05:29
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3. Blues on the Roof 04:12
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4. Prague 04:24
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5. Overseas 03:13
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6. F Sharp Fits Everywhere 05:30
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7. Bitonal Blues 05:10
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8. Bluebird 04:18
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9. LBL 04:36