Whisper Aloud and Czech Shoegaze

No other music genre has adapted so well to post-Velvet Revolution changes than shoegaze. The deafening guitar distortion served as the leitmotif of newly acquired freedom. The Czech shoegaze scene as well as the unique atmosphere of those times is captured in Miloš Hroch’s new book, Whisper Aloud. Pavel Turek will ask the author about the early musical contacts between East and West and why the bands such as Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Here or Sebastians did not want to follow up on the pre-revolutionary underground, but rather built their own tradition.