The result of his third collaboration with producer Petr Ostrouchov is Vladimír Mišík‘s new album called Vteřiny, měší a roky. It was released this Friday and loosely follows on from the previous successful records Once I’ll Meet You and Noční obraz, which together won seven Anděl awards.
The album features a new music video for the single Rain is whipping the street. Vladimír Mišík wrote its music and lyrics, son Adam helped with the backing vocals. “We’re walking the line that we set with the first music video So well with footage from the studio as we made the record. The vast majority of it is footage of the musicians when we were actually recording it. Because the record was made the way it was recorded 50 years ago, when they musicians in the studio and playing together. I hope this reflects the good mood in which we created the record,” says producer and composer Petr Ostrouchov.
“Adam Mišík sang backing vocals for dad in three songs, and this is one of them. I thought of inviting him when I was playing Sun’s Grave, Variation on a Renaissance Theme, Why the Rose Withers and all of Vláď’s old ultra hits in the car and it occurred to me, that Adam has the same voice today as his father had back then,” he adds.
The core of the studio band was guitarist Josef Štěpánek, bassist Matěj Belko, drummer Martin Novák and Ostrouchov playing guitar. The line-up was expanded by organist Ondřej Pivec, pianist Jan Steinsdörfer, guitarist Lukáš Martinek, double bassist Tomáš Liška and two foreign guests, percussionist Michito Sanchez and pedal steel guitar player BJ Cole. Hana Baboráková recorded a cello part in one song.
One does not hesitate about the possibility of repeating the cooperation with Vladimír Mišík, on the contrary, one tries to accommodate it, explains Petr Ostrouchov. “Seconds, months and years is Vláď’s personal album, mostly made up of ordinary stories from life. What I appreciate about it above all is what a great band he managed to put together,” notes the musician, who has shaped both of Mišík’s previous albums.
In addition to texts by Mišík and Michael Žantovský, the novel contains poems set to music by Josef Kainar, Jan Skácel, Jiří Dědeček and František Gellner. One text was written by Belko, Ostrouchov’s former teammate from the band Hundred Animals.
Vladimír Mišík started with music in the 60s of the last century, when he sang with Komet, Matadors and Blue Effect. Towards the end of the first half of the 1970s, he founded the group Etc…, with which he performed for several decades despite many personnel changes. In 2017, for Mišík’s 70th birthday, the film documentary Let Mišík Sing was made, which was filmed by Jitka Němcová. In the last five years, he has released the albums Jedno te potekám and Noční obraz. In April 2021, he announced on social networks that he was quitting concerts due to health problems.
Video: The single Street is whipped by the rain from Mišík’s record
Video clip for the single Ulica whipping rain from Vladimír Mišík’s new album. Photo: Zuzana Bönisch | Video: Supraphon