Czech experimental post-punk band MARABU (since 1990 DER MARABU) was established in 1986 by three musicians:
drummer Josef Škoda, composer and keyboard player [artist]Vladimír Hirsch[/artist] and bass-guitarist Tomáš Hadrava.
With guitarist Janis Georgiu joining the line up, Marabu puts together a concert program performed for the first time with the singer
Samír Hauser in 1987.
In 1990-1994, the band is formed by Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, vocal, bass, Josef Škoda -drums, Michael Kureš - guitar,
in 1994 come the singer Martina Sanollová, the second guitarist Miroslav Ondrýsek and bass guitarist Karel Janků.
With many breaks and personal changes the formation continues to perform in independent clubs of Prague till 1996
and does some concerts abroad as well. (DER) MARABU was initially influenced by post-punk (demo recording MARABU I),
from 1990 it declares itself as „dark-core“ band (recordings "1991 & DEAD MUSICc"), towards the end of its existence as „slavonic dark core“.
In 1994, the band recorded the album CRUCI-FICTION to get done with its existence one year later with a studio project ALL OF US WILL FALL AWAY.
The one and only man to be in the band for the whole time,
Vladimír Hirsch, establishes afterwards (autumn 1995) together with the singer Martina Sanollová a Tom Saivon a new formation SKROL.
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1991 & DEAD MUSIC
Compilation. 1991. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, vocal, Michal Kureš-guitar, Josef Škoda-drums, vocal. Songs from the period 1990-1991 together with
experimental project for keyboards and vocal "Dead Music".
CRUCI-FICTION
Thematic album. 1993-1994. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, sampler, bass, vocal, Josef Škoda - drums, Michal Kureš - guitar.
Conceptual album, that is the peak of whole work of the band. Steel sound, enriched by sampled industrial noises and sampler´s bass, with an attempt on original compositional
principles and Slavic influences in melodic processes. The group tries here to take up its own ethnic roots and classical music, draft from these traditions, that is apparent also
in compositional structure and construction (e.g. “Love Song Analysis”). That orientation is supported by using of sampled classical instruments and the way of composition of the part of drums.
ALL OF US WILL FALL AWAY
Thematic album. 1995 - 1996. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, sampler, vocal, Martina Sanollová - vocal, Miroslav Ondrýsek - guitar, Karel Janků - bass guitar; participatione:
Tomáš Sedláček - drums programming.
Conceptual project of last configuration of the group, synthetising and extrapolating the finding of previous works, which evolves with an attempt on melody
of Slavic type, agressive polyphony and maybe too much complicated construction of enhanced epic tracks. The result of studio work was - thanks to bad communication with sound-master
and different attitudes of members of the band - some disapointing, above all from genteel final sound characteristics. This fact was also one of the major causes of successive break-out of the formation.
LIVE: ALL OF US WILL FALL AWAY
Live recording of the album. 1996. Musicians: Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, sampler,vocal, Martina Sanollová - vocal, Miroslav Ondrýsek - guitar, Karel Janků - bass guitar;
Pavel Navratovič - drums. Live and abbreviated version of the album is in contradistinction to studio work more compact and the sound is more raw, what filled up original conception of the album.
působí na rozdíl od studiové kompaktněji a je zvukově syrovější, což lépe naplňuje koncept alba.
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