2024-07-01 03:02:26
Singer, lyricist and composer Vladimír Mišík will launch a brand new album in October known as Vteřiny, měší a roky. Will probably be the third one he created with producer and composer Petr Ostrouchov. It follows on from the earlier award-winning titles As soon as I am going to Meet You and Evening Image.
The creators of the novelty introduced this Wednesday within the Sono recording studio in Unhoště. Vladimír Mišík didn’t arrive, he’s in Na Františku Hospital in Prague because of bronchitis. He solely filmed a greeting for the occasion within the morning.
“After the discharge of Evening Picture, I used to be in such a melancholy. It was after the covid, I finished doing live shows. However Petr woke me up by sending me a number of demo recordings of recent songs, and with that I received right into a extra lively approach of being and we began working once more.” describes Mišík.
He describes cooperation with Petr Ostrouchov as ultimate. “With the band And so on… we by no means had a producer and we negotiated every thing roughly by ourselves. However that view from the surface is usually refreshing, and when this sort of collaboration outcomes, it really works. I used to be thrilled to document with nice musicians. Petr Ostrouchov is sweet to me, even when I sing stupidly,” says Mišík.
The album accommodates 15 new songs that they composed collectively. “I actually benefit from the collaboration. It is assembly somebody who isn’t solely a fantastic singer, but additionally a fantastic individual,” notes Ostrouchov. “Vlaďa and I’ve been working collectively for the sixth yr with breaks, and we’ve by some means adjusted our work by way of music and folks, and I dare say that we’ve turn out to be buddies. And if we’ve an reverse opinion on one thing, we discuss it and considered one of us he retreats with out the sensation of being cornered,” he states.
They recorded the album this yr. “Vláďa talked about to me at each appropriate alternative that he had some new lyrics and winked at me meaningfully. Working with him is at all times a pleasure, so I requested them from him, appeared for just a few extra poems, invited Michael Žantovský to the get together, whose lyrics I’ve at all times preferred very a lot and whom I form of pulled out of retirement as a lyricist, and we began making ready new songs,” describes Ostrouchov.
Producer Petr Ostrouchov and Vladimír Mišík. | Photograph: Zuzana Bönisch
A ten-member band gathered within the studio, the core of which is the Blue Shadows quartet, i.e. guitarists Josef Štěpánek and Ostrouchov, bassist Matěj Belko and drummer Martin Novák.
The brand new acts additionally characteristic pianist Jan Steinsdörfer and US-based Hammond organ participant Ondřej Pivec, guitarist Lukáš Martinek, double bassist Tomáš Liška plus two overseas friends – American percussionist of Cuban origin Michito Sanchez and British pedal metal guitar participant BJ Cole. Amongst others, Mišík’s son Adam contributed backing vocals.
“We recorded like within the previous days – everybody on the identical time, fairly rapidly and intuitively. I’m actually grateful for such a focus of nice gamers with nice concepts and a sense for the entire. What we recorded remained because it was, solely the vocals had been moreover recorded and the brass in two songs part,” Ostrouchov explains.
Mišík himself doesn’t play guitar on the album. “Sadly, arthritis of my left hand does not enable me to play the guitar, I can not press the strings, so I can not compose a lot, however Petr took care of that, who set the lyrics, together with mine, to music,” notes Mišík.
Along with texts by Mišík and Michael Žantovský, who’s a former ambassador and till just lately the director of the Václav Havel Library, the album accommodates poems set to music by Josef Kainar, Jan Skácel, Jiří Dědeček and František Gellner. One textual content was written by Belko, Ostrouchov’s former teammate from the band Hundred Animals.
The album additionally consists of the tune Milé mozkove zařáty. The composition within the fashion of ska is devoted to Jan Kalin, the band chief of the band Sto szívrat, who handed away final yr.
“Vláďa Mišík gave me the textual content saying that it will be materials for a extra cheerful tune. As a member of the band Sto szvít, I wrote about 40 ska songs, so I proposed this fashion. We recorded the tune and along with Tomáš Belk we thought that we might they may dedicate it to Honzo Kalin, and Vláďa was for it,” Ostrouchov explains.
Vladimír Mišík began with music within the 60s, when he sang with Komet, Matadors and Blue Impact. In direction of the tip of the primary half of the Nineteen Seventies, he based the group And so on… and, regardless of many personnel modifications, carried out with it for many years.
To mark Mišík’s seventieth birthday in 2017, the movie documentary Let Mišík Sing was made by Jitka Němcová. Within the final 5 years, he has launched the albums Jedno te potekám and Noční obraz.
Video: Once I overcome a disaster and provides it, I really feel good. I hesitated whether or not to sing about loss of life, says Mišík (October 8, 2019)
“When an individual is in bother, he’s in want,” stated singer Vladimír Mišík in 2019, when he was a visitor of DVtv. | Video: Martin Veselovsky