Vltava: Best of!
“For a long time we had desired to create a unified identity for a band. Unfortunately, Czech musicians mostly are not interested. Then Robert Nebřenský came along, and together we came up with a motif, which lasted throughout the existence of the Vltava band. A smile in all possible forms. On the first record, Mládí i tak velkou lásku bere s humorem (Youth Takes Even a Love This Big with Humour, 1994), it was more of a sneer than a smile. The face on the second LP cover, Šťastnej jak trám (Happy as a Lark, 1996), belongs to a man who knows just enough to be happy. The third record Marx Engels Beatles (1998) was somewhat harder, giving rise to a portrait of a rock band with a smile frozen on their lips. The six ‘Olympic’ heads represent the six band members as well as John, Paul, George, Ringo, Karl and Friedrich. On the fourth record, Když bozi zestárnou (When Gods Grow Old, 2000), the smiles are hidden in the knots of an old wooden cabinet. And on Best of! (2001) they all come together: self-assured, insecure, hard, dumb, sweet and sad smiles. “Mr. Horáček, a body-builder in his prime, invites you to the best of the group’s golden collection,” says the official version. Sometimes happy, at other times biting, a smile is one of the most frequently occurring motifs for Najbrt.
1994–2019 Aleš Najbrt, Zuzana Lednická
photo Adam Holý
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK
