Karel Fialka

Electro artist and poet, born in Bengal, India to a Czech father & Scottish mother. In 1979, his Indie release Armband (opens in a new tab) on the Red Shift label became a cult classic. Then in 1980 he had a radio hit with the song The Eyes Have It (opens in a new tab), which has been featured on many New Wave collections, and still has a lot of airplay. This was taken from his critically well-received album Still Life (opens in a new tab) on the Blueprint label. Another release from this album was (the almost prophetic) File In Forget (UK 1980) (opens in a new tab).
It was to be another eight years before his next major release, though he was a very active songwriter during the time and numerous artists have covered his songs. 1988 brought Karel his biggest hit, the catchy and serious Hey Matthew (opens in a new tab) on Miles Copeland's I.R.S. records. The follow up album was Human Animal (opens in a new tab), containing more quirky glimpses of life from Karel's unique point of view. Two other singles were released from the album, Eat, Drink, Dance, Relax (opens in a new tab) and You Be The Judge (UK 1988) (opens in a new tab).The CD version (opens in a new tab) of the album included extended mixes including 2 new versions of the 1980 single "The Eyes Have It".
Karel is still writing and recording with other bands and artists, as well as being deeply immersed in production duties. He has been at work on his third album for sometime, a dark hommage called Film Noir (UK & Europe 2009) (opens in a new tab) which was release in 2009 as digital download, or in two hard copy formats from karelfialka.com.