Jan Burian

Although virtually unfamiliar outdoors Central Europe, Jan Burian is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a significant personality in the Czech Republic’s social landscape. He offers recorded a small number of albums, but also released many books of his poetry, travel diaries, and content articles (since he also worked well like a journalist), and hosted a chat display on Czech tv. His lyrics frequently resort to laughter and irony to depict everyday circumstances. The literary degree of his lyrics and his piano-and-vocals single performances have attracted evaluations to Psí Vojáci’s frontman Filip Topol, but Burian’s music generally remains a lot more lighter and lively. Every one of his albums retains a different character, due mainly to the fact how the artist works together with a different arranger each time. Burian was created in Prague, 1952, in a family group of performers. His mom was a article writer, his father proved helpful in movie theater, and one of is own uncles was composer Emil Frantisek Burian. His piano schooling began at a age. He researched journalism as well as for a short while in the 1970s proved helpful as the editor of the music mag. Midway during that 10 years he begun to perform, initial in rock groupings and along with his friend Jirí Dedecek. His refined criticism from the Communist routine was not refined enough to put into practice undetected, and for that reason he was forbidden release a his music. Beside a self-titled EP in 1986, he previously to hold back for the Velvet Trend of November 1989 to provide delivery to his initial single record, Hodina Duchu (“The Hour of Spirits”). For a couple of years he centered on music, releasing Cerny z Nebe (“Dark From Heaven”) in 1991, as well as the acclaimed Poesie (“Poetry”) in 1994. For the second option, he stopped composing lyrics and utilized poems by a small number of Czech writers, something folk vocalist Vladimír Veit experienced done a couple of years before on Ve Lví Stope. For another four years Burian stepped from the music picture. His participation with television were only available in 1992 and he focused on that and his books for some time, publishing specifically some travel diaries (NY, Denmark, Chile, Iceland). In the mean time, Czech record brands reissued his 1st two LPs, keeping his profession warm for his return in 1998. He provides released three even more albums since, including Unaveny Válecník (2000), a assortment of tracks on poems by Danish writer Benny Andersen.