Singer Martina Trchová captures the feelings associated with double motherhood and family losses on her new album called 90% happiness. On his first record after an eight-year hiatus, he also notices the details of everyday city life.
The recording contains 11 author’s tracks, in addition to the CD, it is available on vinyl. It was published by Indies Scope. It was created in collaboration with the musician Martin Kyšperský from the band Květy, who invited jazz drummer Martin Novák, cellist Alžběta Rolečková and trumpeter Christoffer Strandh to the shoot.
“Various electronic sounds have penetrated the songs in terms of arrangements, and the themes have changed considerably since the last album,” says Trchová. He describes the new album as “an intimate record inspired by motherhood, but also by losses in the family”. While she searched more on the previous one, now, according to her, she finds something more often.
Martina Trchová has been active on the music scene since the beginning of the millennium. She made her debut in 2005 with the album Freshly Painted, followed five years later by the title Takhle ve mé vjjou vlci. In 2016, she released Holobyt, which won the Anděl award in the Folk and Country category.
“Those eight years brought a lot of changes to my life in the form of moving to Brno, the dissolution of the Prague band and the arrival of two daughters. I needed time to experience everything, to put it into songs and at the same time I also wanted to come up with a slightly different sound than what was mine listeners get used to it,” the artist describes.
The album will be christened on November 11 at the Cabinet of Muses in Brno and two days later at the Unijazz Reading Room in Prague. In Brno, the record’s godmother will be cellist Dorota Barová, and in Prague, poet Anna Beata Háblová.
Video: Slova single from Martina Trchová’s new album
The single Slova from Martina Trchová’s new album. | Video: Indies Scope