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Modus (album)
''Modus'' is the debut album by Modus, released on OPUS in 1979. Track listing Official releases * 1979: ''Modus'', LP, MC, OPUS, #9116 0856 * 1995: ''Modus'', CD, re-release, Open Music #0017 2331 * 2000: ''Modus: Komplet 2'', 3 bonus tracks, CD, Bonton Music Slovakia, #9849 1722 * 2008: ''Modus: Slovenské legendárne albumy II'', CD, SME, #91 0023 Credits and personnel * Ján Lehotský - lead vocal, chorus, writer, keyboards * Marika Gombitová - lead vocal, chorus * Miroslav Žbirka - writer, lead vocal, chorus, electric and acoustic guitar * Ladislav Lučenič - bass, electric and acoustic guitar, chorus * Viliam Pobjecký - solo guitar * Kamil Peteraj - lyrics, notes * Boris Filan - lyrics * Tibor Borský - photography * Ján Lauko - producer * Juraj Filo - sound director * Štefan Danko - responsible editor Accolades In 2007, ''Modus'' was ranked 41st on the list of the 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modus (band)
Modus was a popular Slovak band, originally established in 1967 by Stanislav Hrda, Ján Baláž, Peter Krutek, Juraj Czinege, Tomáš Bery Psota, Ľubomír Stankovský, Gabriel Wertlen and Miroslav Žbirka in the former Czechoslovakia. The formation (identified nowadays as ''Modus 0'') initially played cover versions of the 60's hits. A major change followed after the arrival of Ján Lehotský who joined the ensemble in 1972, and became their leader. The years 1976-80, which included albums '' Modus'' (1979) and '' Balíček snov'' (1980), referred to as ''Modusmania'', denoted the band's stardom era. Past members *Stanislav Hrda - piano, keyboards (1967–68) * Ján Baláž - solo guitar (1967–72, 74-75) * Miro Žbirka - lead vocal, guitar (1967–72, 76-81) *Gabriel Wertlen - bass (1967–70) *Ľubo Stankovský - drum (67-72,74), lead vocal (83-86) *Peter Krutek - vocals, trumpet (1967–70) *Juraj Czinege - vocals, saxophone, clarinet (1967) *Tomáš "Bery" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Lučenič
Laco Lučenič (born 23 November 1952) is a Slovak musician and music producer. He is known as a former member of such Slovak bands as Fermáta, Prúdy, Modus, and Limit. He became popular for his role as a judge on the Slovak Pop Idol ('' Slovensko hľadá SuperStar''). Growing up in the 1960s, he became fascinated by the "electrifying" music of the Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, and others. In his project called "Satisfactory", he plays music from the 1960s. In November 2006, the show was released on DVD ''Satisfactory Live In Concert'' on the Lučenič's own label ''doubleL''. Lučenič is also the author of a 1960s encyclopaedia. As a guitarist, he has played with other musicians (Pavol Hammel, Marián Varga, Miro Žbirka), along with producing albums (HEX, IMT Smile, Peha, Slobodná Európa, and also Marika Gombitová Marika Gombitová (; born 12 September 1956) is a Slovak singer-songwriter and musician. Once a member of Modus, Gombitová started to gain ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely Night (song)
"Lonely Night (Angel Face)" is a song written by Neil Sedaka. The song was first recorded by Sedaka and appeared as a track on his 1975 studio album, ''The Hungry Years''. The following year the song was made popular when covered by the pop music duo Captain & Tennille, who took their version to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Background In 1976, "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" was a hit single for Captain & Tennille, who had recorded another Sedaka song " Love Will Keep Us Together" a year earlier. Their version of "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" first hit the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart on January 24, 1976, entering at number 69. It rose to number 3 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' Easy Listening chart in March 1976. On the '' Cashbox'' chart, it also reached number 1. The song became a Gold record, and Sedaka's biggest hit as a lyricist (aside from this and "That's When the Music Takes Me," Sedaka had generally only written the music to his songs, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No More Reasons (Coming Home)
"Vyznanie" (in English transcribed as "Why (Must I Always Fail)?", respectively also known as "Declaration") is a song by the female singer Marika Gombitová released on OPUS in 1979. The composition written by Janko Lehotský, in common with Kamil Peteraj, is referred to as her masterpiece receiving several awards. Including the Silver award at the Bratislavská lýra '79 in the contest of the Czechoslovak songwriters. At the 4th Intervision Song Festival contest in Sopot, Poland the following year, the song won the first prize for the Best Performance in the category representing record companies. Most recently, the single was voted by the TV audience as ''Hit storočia'' ( en, Hit of the Century) in Slovakia, followed by the tribute program ''Vyznanie pre Mariku'' ( en, A Confession for Marika) broadcast by Slovak Television on December 23, 2007. Originally, the song was released on the singer's debut album ''Dievča do dažďa'', being available on numerous compilations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonton Music
Bonton may refer to: * Bonton, Dallas, neighborhood in Dallas, Texas * Bonton Group, a media/entertainment holding company *A brand name for Lorazepam Lorazepam, sold under the brand name Ativan among others, is a benzodiazepine medication. It is used to treat anxiety disorders, trouble sleeping, severe agitation, active seizures including status epilepticus, alcohol withdrawal, and c ... See also * Bon Ton (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Girls
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringier
Ringier AG is a media group in Switzerland, founded in 1833 in Zofingen and based in Zürich. The current strategy is based not only on media but also on e-commerce and entertainment. It has a yearly income of approximately 1000 million CHF and around 6,400 employees in nineteen countries. Activities The worldwide activities of Ringier include: *Information in print and digital publications with strong media. *The digital business, mainly internet based and mobile e-commerce-services like shopping webpages or online marketplaces. *The entertainment sector includes all activities around television, radio, events and amusement-services (such as ticketing). Publications Switzerland In the German language: * Blick and Sonntags-Blick * Bolero * Cash (Online-Wirtschafts- und -Finanzplattform) * Glückspost * Landliebe * TV Täglich * Schweizer Illustrierte / SI Style In the French language: * L'Illustré * TV8 * Le Temps (until 1 January 2021) Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nový čas
''Nový Čas'' (literally meaning ''New Time'' in English) is a tabloid and the best-selling daily in Slovakia. History and profile ''Nový Čas'' was founded in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution, initially as a rough copy of the Austrian ''Kronen Zeitung''. The newspaper is owned and published by Ringier Axel Springer, a Swiss company based in Zurich. The former owner of the paper was Gruner + Jahr. Its content is tabloid journalism Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism (usually dramatized and sometimes unverifiable or even blatantly false), which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as ... gutter press. The widely read supplement "Nový Čas víkend" is added on Saturdays. In 2006 a Sunday version of ''Nový Čas'' was introduced: ''Nový Čas Nedeľa'' (''New Time Sunday''). The circulation of ''Nový Čas'' was 157,000 copies in 2003 and 167,000 in 2004. It was 189,000 copies in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums Of All Time
The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of the best album releases issued by Slovak recording artists. As the first such list presented in Slovakia, it was published by '' Nový čas'' daily on 22 September 2007. The list is entirely composed of Slovak, or else of formerly Czechoslovak artists, featuring all albums published in the country of origin from the 1960s onwards. Some of nominated full-length records could have been performed also in a different language (occasionally in English but partially). Ranking itself was based on votes received from twenty-five selected native-born musicians, critics and/or industry figures. Each of them voted ten most significant Slovak LPs from the past four decades in the country. While the winning album became '' Zvoňte, zvonky'' (1969) by Prúdy band, the most-represented musical act on the list is female vocalist Marika Gombitová, having six out of her nine studio albums in total present. The final list also included two o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005).Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology. Varying by project, the producer may or may not choose all of the artists. If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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