Dežo Ursiny
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| Birth name | Dezider Ursiny |
| Born | October 4, 1947 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | May 2, 1995 (aged 47), Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Musician, Dramaturge, Film director |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, Vocals |
| Years active | 1964 - 1995 |
| Associated acts | The Beatmen, The Soulmen, The New Soulmen, Provisorium, Burčiak |
Dežo Ursiny (IPA: ['deʒo 'ʊrsini]) (4 October 1947 - 2 May 1995) was a Slovak rock musician and a television and film dramaturge and director. He is considered one of the most important personalities of Slovak rock music and one of the most talented and unique Slovak popular music composers. He belongs to the wide group of the legends of Czechoslovak Big Beat.[1] He was a member of now legendary big beat bands The Beatmen and The Soulmen in the mid-sixties, a progressive rock band Provisorium at the turn of the decade, and since the mid-seventies until his death he had pursued a solo-career, composing music artistically very sophisticated and critically highly praised, but which is often difficult to define. He composed music to several films, including a popular musical Neberte nám princeznú and also shot a few documentary movies during his lifetime. He died of cancer.
[edit] Discography
With The Beatmen:
- SP: Safely Arrived/The Enchanted Lie - 1965 (Supraphon)
- SP: Break It/Let's Make A Summer - 1965 (Supraphon)
With The Soulmen:
- EP: Sample Of Happiness/Wake Up/I Wish I Were/Baby Do Not Cry - 1968 (Panton)
With Provisorium:
- LP: Dežo Ursiny & Provisorium - 1973 (Supraphon)
Solo career: Dežo Ursiny - Ivan Štrpka:
Studio albums (LPs):
- Pevnina detstva (Mainland Of Childhood) - 1978 (Opus)
- Nové mapy ticha (New Maps Of Silence) - 1979 (Opus)
- Modrý vrch (Blue Peak) - 1981 (Opus)
- 4/4 - 1983 (Opus)
- Bez počasia (Without Weather) - 1984 (Opus)
- Zelená (Green) - 1986 (Opus)
- Na ceste domov (On A Way Home) - 1987 (Opus)
- Momentky (Snapshots) - 1990 (Opus)
- Do tla (Burn Down To The Ground) - 1991 (Opus)
- Ten istý tanec (The Same Dance) - 1992 (Arta)
- Príbeh (Story) - 1994 (BMG Ariola)
Compilation albums:
- Pevniny a vrchy (Mainlands And Peaks) - 1997 (Bonton/Slovenský rozhlas)
- Pevniny a vrchy 2 (Mainlands And Peaks 2) - 2000 (Sony Music Bonton)
Live:
- Posledný príbeh live (The Last Story Live) - 2000 (Rádio Bratislava)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Big Beat being the name used in Czechoslovakia (and some other countries of the then eastern Europe) that originally indicated the music genre equivalent to what had become known as Beat music in the early 1960s in the western world and later, by the end of 1960s had been used to indicate practically all the underground rock music. It remained in public use for at least one following decade, often referring to rock generally, but it is today used more or less to indicate all the underground rock music of the 1960s, till the early 1970s.
