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Set One
Eastern Feast Yearn
236
32126-TRACK
When I Ride Through That Forest
215
32127-TRACK
Mountain Ghost
275
32128-TRACK
Annie Little Soul
123
32129-TRACK
Happygrass
185
32130-TRACK
Rock Slide Area
286
32131-TRACK
Uneaten Apples
210
32132-TRACK
Johann Do Banjolim
173
32133-TRACK
Czech And Slovak Medley
225
32134-TRACK
Al Di Mandola
213
32135-TRACK
Beauty, Power And Pain
378
32136-TRACK
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Show Notes
Czechoslovakian mandolinist Radim Zenkl is back with a stunning collection of solo mandolin, mandocello, and mandolin banjo music that showcases his gifts as a composer and his inventive style as a performer. Czech It Out (featuring eight Zenkl originals and seven traditional songs from his native land) is a technical tour de force: "Often it sounds like he's playing two or three instruments at the same time," says Acoustic Musician magazine of Zenkl's incredible technique. "He plucks, strums, uses a bottleneck slide and even taps the strings with a pencil to elicit sounds previously unheard and perhaps unimagined on the mandolin."The original compositions on this recording reflect Zenkl's classical training as a child, his eastern European heritage, and a passion for Western music that runs so deep that he came to America (three months before the fall of communism) to be closer to his musical influences. Today, at 28, Zenkl has made his mark on the modern mandolin movement in this country where his music is on the cutting edge. Czech It Out , co-produced and engineered by David Grisman, is Zenkl's second release on Acoustic Disc.