He became famous as the frontman of the group Nightwork, but in recent years he has been performing with the DYK project. At the end of November, Vojtěch Dyk will play with the band in the largest Czech hall, Prague’s O2 arena. However, he also looks beyond the borders. “You play with a band for a year and a half and you are able to make the biggest hall. The Czech Republic is very small, which leads to a stereotype,” he says. In the interview, he also talks about the truth, the relationship with technology and rap.
Even before the concert planned for November 27, actor and singer Vojtěch Dyk released a new song with the DYK project. It’s called The Army of Love and it’s about the relationship between truth and lies at a time when we’re inundated with a lot of information and it can be hard to tell which ones are trustworthy. ”They come and lie to our faces / They lie from the places I already know,” he sings here. In the accompanying video clip, he appears as a sneaky presenter of TV news as well as its consumer.
He admits that he gets lost in what is true and what is not on a regular basis every day. “I try not to watch the news too much, but when I do, I have to share everything more than before. To tell myself that it’s just some point of view, to give myself more time and go through the information thoroughly. In the song, I try to suggest that the truth is ultimately best told by intuition,” he believes.
At the same time, he feels that there is an effort in society to divide people and attract them to their side of opinion. “That scares me a little, on the contrary, I try to connect people with my art,” he says. “Even if the other person has a completely different opinion, we can respect him. The subtitle of the upcoming concert also refers to this – We are one tribe. It seems to me that we are increasingly crumbling into smaller and smaller factions that do not respect each other,” he continues. At the same time, he is convinced that the artist should express himself primarily through creation, so that he ”does not lose his secret”.
Distrust of the world of information and technology leads the musician more to nature and himself. “A society that needs to create artificial intelligence and arm it with nuclear warheads causes me to build a bubble in which I don’t deal with these topics at all. I also go to nature more often, I just came back from the cottage today,” he says. “There are trees, friends, respect, love and music in my bubble. Paradoxically, it leads me to have more confidence in myself,” he adds.
In addition to information, Dyk is also wary of the technologies that spread it. After all, even at the beginning of the interview, which took place in the form of a video call, he mentions that he does not like this type of contact. “I always prefer a live meeting, I get to know each other, shake hands. I don’t even know if you’re really talking to me, if you’re not part of an artificial intelligence,” he says in exaggeration. But the period before the concert is hectic for him, so he sometimes chooses the option of remote contact.
In the same way, in his music, he does not resist technological gadgets, if it is for the good of the cause. In the O2 arena, for example, he will use 3D sound technology for the first time. “As a result, it will sound much more natural. If there is a 2D sound coming from two ‘banana’ boxes at a concert, the sound engineer only has a chance to increase or decrease it. 3D sound, however, sounds as if the musicians are playing acoustically, even though it’s very loud. As a result, it’s more natural,” he explains. For the first time in the Libeň hall, they will also perform with complete scenography, dancers and a visual show.
A small Czech pond
At the same time, the big concert motivates him to move on. “You play with a band for a year and a half and you are able to make the biggest hall. The next target could be Eden, in my case more like Letná, because I’m a Spartan. But it’s still a stereotype and I don’t like it. The Czech Republic is very small. I can either create a Czech repertoire and
Convincing people with your talent is the most beautiful thing about music. Here, my face is already dull, so I only have this opportunity abroad,” he adds.
That is why he called his group DYK so that the name could be used in several languages. So far, he has managed to play in Berlin, for example. “And it was great. A number of foreign projects performed there, including a gospel choir. I come from gospel music, I love black music, and they reacted well to it, applauded, danced. It was a signal to me that even I, as a Central European white I’m able to do it somewhat acceptably,” he says.
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At the same time, he mentions that with his repertoire inspired by African-American music, he sometimes has to convince Czech listeners a little. “It’s difficult because we don’t have that rhythm in us. On the other hand, I’ve never failed to convince people at a concert,” he says. He also observes how the centre of gravity of mainstream music is shifting. “Seventeen-year-old girls used to go to Nightwork, now they go to Calin and Viktor Sheen,” he mentions, noting that rap used to be separate from the mainstream, but now it’s part of the mainstream. Dyk himself prefers older rap, for example PSH.
After all, as he mentions, he is said to have an old soul. “On the other hand, I still feel like such an immature child. I understand both twenty-year-olds and sixty-year-olds, but we must not come across something that borders on my life experience,” he explains. “Sometimes I feel that younger people, in their twenties, push themselves into a hyper-correct world. I don’t understand that at all,” he adds.
According to him, the success of the piece lies, among other things, in the fact that it speaks to the audience in a language that is close to them and to which they can connect. And he is not the only one who thinks like this on the Czech scene in recent years. The band Monkey Business or a lot of young musicians from the alternative scene have recently switched to Czech. “At least my audience can’t quite handle the lyrics in English. Maybe the energy of the given song or the whole concert breathes on them, but only with Czech can they really identify,” says Vojtěch Dyk.
It is said that he personally doesn’t care what language he sings in; it is simply a means of communication. It also doesn’t matter to him whether he plays for a chamber audience or in a large hall. “I’m all about people connecting, whether it’s somewhere in a garage or in the O2 arena. Big stages are not for everyone, it’s a specific kind of communication with the audience. But we’ll do everything to be as close to the listeners’ hearts as possible ,” beckons to perform.
Video: Raking people. I don’t trust the psychopaths who lead us, says Dyk (June 12, 2023)
“It doesn’t do me any good to be on a smartphone for a long time,” actor and musician Vojtěch Dyk said in the Spotlight program last year. | Video: Jakub Zuzánek
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