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Mikoláš Chadima, geb. 9.September 1952. in Cheb.
(Seit fünf Jahren lebt in Prag.)
STUDIUM Fachmittelschule des Volkseigenen graphischen Betriebs Svoboda/Offsetdrucker 1968-1972. Mittelschule fur Berufstatige an der Fachmittelschule des VEB Svoboda/Abitur 1968-1974. Volkskunstschule Praha-Čakovice/Saxophon 1972-1974.
Spielerische Jazz-Schule. Kurse von Karel Velebny und Rudolf Tichacek 1974-1978. BERUFSLAUFBAHN
Beschaftigungsverhaltnisse: Volkseigener graphischer Betrieb Svoboda 1968-1974, Drucker.
VEB Geodasie 1975-1977, Arbeiter.
Tschechoslowakische Post 1977, Postzusteller.
Nationales Technikmuseum 1977, Sachbearbeiter der polygraphischen Abt. Militarische Bauten - Metro 1977-1978, Arbeiter.
Nationales Technikmuseum 1979-1988, Drucker und Graphiker.
Nationales Technikmuseum 1988-1989, Sachbearbeiter der polygraphischen Abt.
Komponist und Musiker 1990 bis heute.

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Während des Komi-regimes war er tätig in den  Opositionstrukturen, vor allem in „Parallerkultur“. Ein von den Begründern und Werber des musikalischen Samizdat (fi.Fist Records). Darsteller der sogenannten. „Tschechischenn alternativen Rockmusic“ der 70. und 80.Jahren. Darin hatte er nicht nur wie Musiker, sondern auch wie. Organisator funktioniert. Unregelmäßig hatte er in Drucksachen der JazzSektion, „Underground-kulturzeitschriften“ und auch im Ausland publiziert. Im Jahr 1986 gab er sein kritisches Buch „Alternativa - Seit den Rekvalifikationen zur Neue Welle mit altem Begriffs“ im Samizdat heraus, das sich den Jahren 1969 - 1984 widmet. Für seine Tätigkeit ist gegen ihn vielmal Strafverfahren eingeleitet worden. In Evidenz StB wurde er wie NO („Nepřátelská osoba - Unfreundliche Person“) geführt.

Nach dem Überfall im Jahr 1989 mitarbeitet er eng mit dem Verein „Šalamoun (Salomon), der in neuen Bedingungen auf die Tätigkeit des VONS anknüpfen könnte.

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But new wave/punk influences checked their more introverted moments and their latest set - based on a song cycle called  „ 15 Dreams Of The City Inhabitant“ is an exhilarating fusion of tense thrashes, chants and sweet, controlled moments.
The songs, according to an English speaking colleague of the band, are grotesque ... full of black humour, absurdity, blasphemy, anarchy and ... cryptograms“.

                                                                           (Chris Bohn - „Biba Kopf“,  NME 1Oth January 1981)

„This a cassette sent by „MK“, of Czech performer Startka(Name of MCH BAND in concert in Ostrov, 1984)  in two live gig situation. No other information is on the tape; I am not certain if it is actually  a  „release“ or not.The music sounds on Live at Ostrov like Startka on echoing voices and possibly with a female voice,
and electric guitar, amids what sounds like a general rustle of voices (of the audience?). Psychologically violent, quasi-operatic sense of drama; a dark and uncompromised performance of a beautiful intensiv which entertains no sort of self-indulgence, despite its deliberate, aggressively bleak pacing. Startka and co. are putting themselves out on the line here, and it sounds like it“.

       (Terry Fugate, Jim Willet&Myro Keel - Tape and Record Rewiews, The Improvisor. Vol.III Autumn `87, Alabama- USA)

MCH BAND : „Jsme Zdravi A dari Se Nam Dobre“ and  „Krokodlak“.  The first title translates to „we are well and we feel fine“, no doubt to reassure the outside world that thea`re still in bussines. This band is a contunuation of Extempore,
a fine experimental  band of the `7Os. Improvisation in Czechoslovakia is no smell feat. This is a live recording from 1983; the music is similar to Henry Cow/Faust/Yochko Seffer. MCH ist outspoken; even if the tongue if foreign; the emotion isn`t. Very powerful stuff. „Krokodlak“ is a studio tape of sorts.  Very intricate and exciting music; this is one of the best things I`ve heard all year. Recorded very much on the sly, yet surprisingly good quality.

                                                                                                  (Jeff Jobson, Option , USA, 1988)

MCH BAND: „Es reut mich f...“The most  famous progressive rock band from Eastern Europe is undoubtedly Czechoslovakia`s Plastic People Of The Universe. But in the many years since their classic debut LP, Egon Bondy`s Lonely Hearts Club Band ,  they `ve gotten sorta dull. The recent release by their current incarnation, Pulnoc, should prove my point. Those bugged by distressingly prosaic sound of these former titans are directed toward this two - record set by the MCH BAND.Es reut  has some of Zappa-descendec arrangement - weirdness that seems so ubiquitous in eastern European avant-rock circles, but there are lots of other textural subtleties and clang here, making it clear that the band`s alliances with members of two other bands, Art Bears and This Heat, are not product of mere tokenism. The lyrics are Greek to me, but the musical motion is lopsided, noisy, and prog in the best sense of the world. This is an excellent set of sonic bluster`n`blubber that ougota have wide appeal among the more discerning readers out there.

                                                                                              (Byron Coley, Spin - April `92, USA)

„Music of MIKOLAS CHADIMA can be called Prague music. We can find in it coolness of gothic cathedrals, richness of barogue pallaces, and tragicomic atmosphere that is typical for Czech-German-Jude inhabitants of Prague, stigmatized by naci and komi terror“.

                                                                                          (Josef Vlček 1991, from MCH BAND` s sleevnote)

MCH BAND: „Gib Acht!“„After their first 1O years of existence, the MCH BAND,
a Czech alternative rock legend, has realased an album that deserves to be ranked among the best Czech discs of the 199Os (So far). Gib Acht! (Watch Out!) follows the band`s Es Reut Mich F... as the next link in their experimental chain of Germans-language tunes....“

                                                                       (Jan Sliva, Prognosis, September 3-16, 1993, Prague)