Echt!

A Czech rock group that came out of the Velvet Revolution of the late '80s, Echt! (not to be confused with a couple of German-speaking groups by the same name) plays a kind of pub rock similar in essence to the Pogues. Its originality resides in a heavier side to the music and singer Karel Malik's low vocal range. The group has been active mostly since the late '90s, releasing albums on the Czech label Black Point. Echt! has its roots in the underground pub Klamovka in late-'70s Prague. There, musicians and artists met and were briefly relieved from the oppression of the Comm...