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OTK Are A Four-Piece Czech Alternative Rock Band. They Formed In 1988 In Prague. The Band Went Through A Couple Of Line-Up Changes During Its Existence But Most Recently The Four Bandmembers Have Been Vít Holub Drums Honza Žalud Bass Honza Klempíř Keyboard And Ondrej Ježek Guitar Vocals Lyrics . Several Other Musicians Contributed On Studio Recordings. OTK Are Quite Notorious For The Long Wait About 5 Years That Separates Their Albums - In Their 20 Years Together They've Only Released Four Full-Length Albums The Last One Being 2008's Okolo. Beside That They Contributed To Numerous Compilations For Semafor 20after Dáreček II And Relased 7" Split With Aran Epochal 12" Quadsplit SOMOS TU With LYSSA FAMILEA MIRANDA And PICORE And Cooworked As A Backing Band On Two Records For UNKILLED WORKER Faithcolapse Silver Rocket CD 2009 Season Of Doom Silver Rocket LP 2013 Discography OTK Punc/Venture CD 1993 Acid Blackpoint MC 1994 Kot Silver Rocket CD 1998 Tracklist Stolní Větráky 22 10 | Ufo 3 17 | Klan 4 00 | Dálnice 3 23 | Vlčák 3 51 | Les 5 30 | Uzel 5 41 | Slapy 3 41 | Bobby 3 10 | Pínička 4 37 | Zajíc 10 03 Sona A Kuva Silver Rocket CD 2003 Tracklist A.Letec 4 31 | Mám Svojí Zemi Rád 3 36 | Sova A Kuna 4 30 | Sopka 4 31 | Šnek 4 33 | Tupilak 5 31 | Moje Ruce 3 44 | Mezi Prsty 2 14 | Pandořina Lednička 6 03 | Poslepu Na Cestě 5 55 Okolo Silver Rocket CD 2008 Tracklist Kreativita 5 20 | Lavina 4 41 | Už Mě To Má 3 45 | Kořeny 4 19 | Na Rozpočtu Nezáleží 5 24 | Krajina 4 00 | Okolo 5 05 | Něco Co Nejde Odmítnout 7 07 | Svět Jako Vědomí A Nic 3 06 According To The Band's Official Website Okolo Was Recorded In Just One Afternoon In The Summer Of 2007. Be Sure To Check Out OTK's Website Http //www.Noise.Cz/otk And Web Of Their Home Label Silver Rocket Http //silver-Rocket.Org Sona A Kuva Is Considered OTK's "breakthrough" Album Gaining Quite A Lot Of Attention In The Czech Alternative Scene And Receiving Generally Positive Reviews Like The One From Splendid Magazine. "I'm Sort Of Driving Blind Here. There's Next To Nothing On The Web -- Nothing Written In English Anyway -- About Czech Band OTK And I Don't Understand One Word Of The Lyrics. I've Determined That They Have Been Around For Over Five Years And Are Popular In The Czech Indie Scene And The Blurry Snapshot I'm Staring At Suggests That They Have Three Members One Looks Like A Cowboy Another Like A French Mime And The Third Is Some Goateed Badass. I've Also Discerned All By Myself That Sona A Kuva Is Really Fucking Good. OTK's Mesmerizing Doom-And-Gloom Sound Is Also Startlingly Original. It Lulls You With Grimy Edgy Repetition Then Bludgeons You With Volatile Brutality. Listening To Sona A Kuva Is Like Taking A Wrong Turn And Finding Yourself In A Seedy Sunless Underworld. The Haunting Often Spoken Vocals Sound Alien To Any Non Czech-Speaking Ears Which Only Adds To The Music's Nightmarish Mood. Although The Band's Sound Is Fresh And Original It's Possible To Detect The Influence Of Other Acts. Sona A Kuva Projects A Vibe Of Drugged Paranoia Which Appropriately Calls To Mind The Starkness Of Morphine And Codeine. OTK Would Also Fit In Well On A Bill With The Black Heart Procession Or Arab Strap The Depressed Spoken-Word Vocals On "Poslepu Na Ceste" Are Pure Aidan Moffett. Opener "A.Letec"'s Hypnotic Plodding Bassline Will Lull You Into A Fugue State While Guitar Noise And Bells Are Layered In A Steady Crescendo. However Before The Music Can Build To A Predictable Frenzy Large Chunks Of The Sound-Mix Simply Drop Away -- A Disorienting Effect That Will Leave Listeners Ill At Ease. It's A Perfect Opener For This Unpredictable Haunted House Of A Record. There's Little That OTK Won't Try. Two Tracks Feature Turntable Scratching Though It Is Employed With Such Taste As To Avoid Nu-Metal Cartoonishness. "Mezi Prsty" Is A Minimal Exercise In Dueling Harmonics That Opens With What Can Best Be Called Zombie Scat. "Sopka" Perhaps The Album's Finest Song Centers On Honza Zalud's Languid Bass As Many Of These Tracks Do Which Slides Glumly Between Two Notes With The Sickening Sinuous Beauty Of A Strong Hangover. Singer Ondrej Jezek Does His Most Gorgeous Crooning Here And The Jarring Squiggles Of Noise That Dot The Song's Landscape Add To Its Disturbing Grandeur. "Pandorina Lednicka" Almost Concludes The Album With A Cathartic Storm Of Strained Screaming And Heavy Guitar Work Which By Song's End Have Turned Into Punishing Metal Riffs However "Poslepu Na Ceste" Its Rhythm Sustained By A Heartbeat-Like Thump Is The Disc's True Ambient Comedown. I Don't Know What OTK Have Done Before And I Literally Don't Know What They're Saying Now But I'm Aware Enough To Recognize The From-The-Gutter Power Of This Exquisite Album. You'd Do Well To Follow Suit." Splendid Magazine read less