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Performer Notes: <ul><li>Personnel: Iva Bittov? (vocals, violin); Gyan Riley (guitar); Evan Ziporyn (clarinet, bass clarinet, piano).</li><li>Audio Mixer: Dave Cook.</li><li>Audio Remixer: Milan Cimfe.</li><li>Liner Note Author: Ken Hunt.</li><li>Recording information: Area 52 Studios, Saugerties, New York, USA.</li><li>Editor: Dave Cook.</li></ul>Producer: EviyanFormat: CD (1 Disc); StereoRelease Date: 14 August, 2015Label: Animal MusicDimensions: 12.7 x 0.5 x 14 centimeters (0.17 kg)

Eviyan

Gilgul
Label/Studio: Animal Music
Album Format: CD
UPC: 8594211850261
Release date: 2023-10-13

Gilgul

Grammy-winning producer and musician Ondrej Pivec is coming back to his homeland after years overseas with the project "Greatest Hits 4000." It blends elements of genres like jazz, funk, gospe l, hip-hop, and soul in the tradition of American music with a fresh twist. Accompanying the Czech jazz icon on the album are talented musicians - Jan Steinsdörfer, the keyboardist of the Czech music group Chinaski, Jan Jakubec, a bassist whose resume includes names like Lenka Dusilová and Raduza, and Filip Ernst, the drummer of Top Dream Company and DYK band. The album is based on Pivec's live performance at JazzFestBrno in the studios of Czech Television

Greatest Hits 4000

100 YEARS or, "The Country at One Hundred" is a large suite, a collective work of the Prague Six, the composers concentrated around the Concept Art Orchestra big band. The composition originated as a tribute to the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 2018 and consists of six parts in which the authors allude to various periods in the history of the Czechoslovak and later Czech Republic, with originality and energy typical of the big band. Štepánka Balcarová, Jan Jirucha, Luboš Soukup, Martin Brunner, Tomáš Sýkora and Vít Krištan each have authored one of the six movements in which they make full use of all the orchestration possibilities offered by a big band, expanding these with non-traditional instruments such as Ondes Martenot, the chimes or Moog synthetizer. The individual compositions also include sensitive references to period music and samples and citations from political speeches. The fourth movement, dedicated to the period of the so-called normalization in the 1970s and 1980s and based on the motives of a song by The Plastic People of the Universe, features a special guest, the saxophonist Vratislav Brabenec. This, already third recording by Concept Art Orchestra on the Animal Music label confirms the indisputable place of the band (the holder of the 2015 Andel Award for the best jazz album of the year) on the current big-band scene and testifies to their capacity to create original works rooted in the current musical and historical context as well as perform them to the highest professional standards.

Various Artists - 100 Years [CD]

Weinberg & Bloch: Piano Quintets
Label/Studio: Animal Music
Album Format: CD
UPC: 8594155991624
Release date: 2017-02-24

Weinberg & Bloch: Piano Quintets

Three years after her solo, award-winning debut "Iluzja" (Andel Award), Dorota Barová releases her second album, also on Animal Music. Alongside her solo career, the singer and cellist has been known as member of the Tara Fuki duo, jazz band Vertigo, diverse projects authored by members of Korben Dallas and Tugriki, and has been a core member of Aneta Langerová's band. Album DOTYK (Touch) brings a collection of new songs and lyrics authored by Barová, which she recorded in trio with guitarist Miroslav Chyška (member of Illustratosphere, J.A.R. and Sexy Dancers) and bass guitarist Miloš Klápšte (known for his collaboration with Aneta Langerová, MarZ, Janoušek-Wroblewski Quartet, Beata Hlavenková). The entire album is sung in Polish, the singer's chosen language. Besides her own lyrics, she has also included musicalizations of a poem by Polish poet Krzystof Kamil Baczynski and one text has been provided by Polish author and journalist Teresa Drozda. The intimate atmosphere and ingenious simpleness of the new album are remindful of some of the core qualities of the preceding "Iluzja".

Dotyk [CD]

The new album of singer Markéta Foukalová and pianist Martin Brunner (Svou chvíli - "A While of One's Own") features a live recording of a performance that took place on 10 February 2022 in the DOX+ in Prague. The project, entitled "Jazz Poetry", included a world premiere of Brunner's cycle based on poems by Vera Koubová, commissioned by the Prague Symphony Orchestra that also accompanied the performance under the baton of Marko Ivanovic. Alongside the two protagonists, the performance featured Vít Krištan on Fender Rhodes. The present recording is the second live recording of a performance within the concert cycle New Horizons, which combines jazz and symphonic music, released from Animal Music in collaboration with the Czech Radio. If A While of One's Own is Brunner's first composition for a large symphonic orchestra, he has been composing music for classical chamber ensembles (Duo Teres, Trio Clavio) and recorded an album featuring jazz trio and the Epoque Quartet (Morning Walks, 2013). Alongside these activities, he has been dedicating himself to his own jazz-rock formation, Martin Brunner Band (Levels of Life, 2019), and has been one of the core authors associated with the jazz big band, Concept Art Orchestra.

Svou Chvili

The foremost Czech cellist Jirí Bárta brings a complete recording of Bach's cello suites. With this new album he returns to the same repertoire which he recorded 23 years ago, but enriched with life experience and offering a new interpretation. This time he has recorded all the suites on a baroque cello with gut strings and thus has come closer to the possible original sound; expressivity has been superseded by meditation and peacefulness. Bárta approaches the set of compositions as a six-movement symphony ("I remember the time when I performed the suites for the first time years ago. It felt like an epiphany: the individual suites materialized for me in a definite shape as a symphony in six movements, as a story of life in six chapters, as a perfectly logical and thoroughly structured large composition."). Bárta spent a long time studying the material and preparing the new interpretation and recording which has the aspiration to become the classical-music event of the season.

Six Cello Suites

On her fifth album, pianist and composer Beata Hlavenkova appears as singer for the first time. Her main musical partner on this album is Oskar Török who has contributed not only in his traditional role as trumpetist but also as drummer, percussionist and singer. The title SNE is a shortcut for everything that the album contains: poems (baSNE), songs (píSNE) and dreams (SNEní). Beata has chosen poems by her favorite authors, Petr Borkovec and Bohuslav Reynek, and set them to music. Two of the sons are based on her own texts and two others musicalize lyrics by Dorota Barova and Martin Vedej. In foregrounding the song form on this album, Beata removes her music further away from the limits of jazz within which she used to operate and brings it forward in the direction of contemporary cross-genre songwriting. Her unique style, however, is still very much recognizable.

Format: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 7 July, 2017Label: Animal

Terms and Conditions Apply

It has become an acknowledged fact that after having reached worldwide success and an absolute peak in horn performance, Radek Baborák (*1976) has been dedicating himself with great vigor to ever new artistic projects which he often initiates as a soloist, conductor or artistic director of several chamber ensembles. Following two albums which he, together with his ensemble Orquestrina, dedicated to the music of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, he now releases an entirely different project: a complete recording of Mahler's famous Lieder collection "Youth's Magic Horn". The original orchestration has been adjusted to the possibilities of Baborák Ensemble and it's variable line-up of seven to sixteen players. The diverse and lively new arrangements which have been made with respect to the brilliant qualities of the individual instrumentalists (members of the ensemble include oboe player Jana Brožková and harpist Katerina Englichová), appear to have injected new energy and youthful spirit into Mahler's beautiful music. Baborák invited three internationally renowned Czech vocalists to collaborate on the album: Katerina Knežíková, Markéta Cukrová and Adam Plachetka.

Das Knaben Wunderhorn

Three years after her solo, award-winning debut "Iluzja" (Andel Award), Dorota Barová releases her second album, also on Animal Music. Alongside her solo career, the singer and cellist has been known as member of the Tara Fuki duo, jazz band Vertigo, diverse projects authored by members of Korben Dallas and Tugriki, and has been a core member of Aneta Langerová's band. DOTYK (Touch) brings a collection of new songs and lyrics authored by Barová, which she recorded in trio with guitarist Miroslav Chyška (member of Illustratosphere, J.A.R. and Sexy Dancers) and bass guitarist Miloš Klápšte (known for his collaboration with Aneta Langerová, MarZ, Janoušek-Wroblewski Quartet, Beata Hlavenková). The entire album is sung in Polish, the singer's chosen language. Besides her own lyrics, she has also included musicalizations of a poem by Polish poet Krzystof Kamil Baczynski and one text has been provided by Polish author and journalist Teresa Drozda. The intimate atmosphere and ingenious simpleness of the new album are remindful of some of the core qualities of the preceding "Iluzja".

Dotyk

Performer Notes: <ul><li>Personnel: Marian Friedl (wooden flute).</li><li>Arranger: Jiri Slavik.</li></ul>Format: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 21 April, 2017Label: Animal Music

Materstina

Pianist Tomáš Sýkora releases a new album based on an original sound concept mixing traditional jazz trio with electronics. Sýkora's current band (Tomáš Sýkora - piano, TomášLiška - baskytara, Roman Vícha - bicí) is joined by a distinguished specialist from the sphere of electronic music, Ondrej Mikula alias Aid Kid, who has greatly contributed to it's novel sound, making it both original and homogeneous. Together, the musicians have created a dynamic and highly original fusion of jazz and modern electronic music. The music has been enthusiastically received by audiences during a mini-tour undertaken by the band earlier thisspring, before they embarked on recording the project at the Sono Doupe Records studio. Among the hallmarks of Tomáš Sýkora's new band count the employment of synthesizer as a counterpoint to acoustic piano, the infectious grooves of the rhythm section, improvised passages, the varied timbre and mood of individual compositions, sophisticated musical structures and a novThe Jungle Book is a studio recording of music by Marko Ivanovic, created for a theatrical music-and-dance project on which the composer and conductor collaborated with the Forman Brothers' Theatre, Dekkadancers, the Czech Philharmonic, and Jatka78 Theatre. The world premiere of the project, based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous novel took place in Azyl78 in Prague in June 2022 and was followed by nearly two dozen performances in the following month, all completely sold out. On this new album, Ivanovic has been joined by an orchestra composed of members of the Czech Philharmonic. It's release marks this year's block of performances of The Jungle Book which will take place between 28 May and 18 June 2023, again on the scene of Azyl 78. Marko Ivanovic has not only authored the music but has also co-authored the script and conducts the fifteen member orchestra during the performances. The Jungle Book is, in his words, his first attempt at a form in which music and dance, rather than words, narrate the story and carry it's meaning. He adds: "For me, as a former boy scout, Kipling's book and it's message and atmosphere have always held a strong appeal. And the opportunity to try and emulate in music the world of wild and seemingly chaotic nature, where a deep, unchanging order reigns has been a wonderfully inspiring experience. " Marko Ivanovic is currently the chief conductor of the Janácek Theatre in Brno. He is also a dedicatedpromoter of contemporary music and has contributed to many first Czech performances of major foreign works. Together with Petr Kadlec, he has established a series of educational programmes ofclassical and contemporary music for young audiences. His previous successful collaborations with Forman Brothers' Theatre include music for the opera "Carokraj" (2012) and his instrumentation of the score of Jirí Suchý and Jirí Šlitr's jazz opera "Dobre placená procházka" for a new production at the National Theatre in Prague in 2007 (directed by Miloš and Petr Forman). el deployment of live electronics.

Kniha Dzungli

Liska,T. / Malina,Lubos / Nejtek,Michal  - Fragile Bliss (CD)
Label/Studio: Animal Music
Album Format: CD
UPC: 8594155992904
Release date: 2016-06-10

Liska,T. / Malina,Lubos / Nejtek,Michal  - Fragile Bliss (CD)

Performer Notes: <ul><li>Personnel: Dorota Barova (vocals, cello, loops); Marcel B rta (vocals, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Oskar T”r”k (vocals, trumpet); Vojtech Proch zka (vocals, acoustic bass, electric bass); Daniel Soltis (vocals, drums, percussion).</li><li>Audio Mixer: Milan Cimfe.</li><li>Recording information: Sono Recording Studios, Nouzov, Czech Republic (08/05/2013-08/07/2013).</li><li>Arranger: Vertigo.</li></ul>Producer: Vertigo, Petr OstrouchovFormat: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 14 October, 2014Label: Animal MusicDimensions: 12.5 x 0.7 x 14.4 centimeters (0.06 kg)

The previous album of the leading Czech big band "Concept Art Orchestra" received the Andel Award in 2015 for the best jazz album of the year. The recording entitled "The Prague Six" featured the work of six Czech important young authors: the band's conductor and trumpeter Štepánka Balcarová, saxophonist Luboš Soukup, pianists Vít Krištan, Martin Brunner and Tomáš Sýkora, and trombonist Jan Jirucha junior. The same six authors are behind this new album entitled "Grown-up Christmas". The programme has been performed several times in concert and comprises originally arranged Christmas carols and songs loosely inspired by Christmas (for example poems by Czech poets Jan Skácel and Frána Šrámek). Concept Art Orchestra has invited singers Dan Bárta, Markéta Foukalová and Milan Cimfe to collaborate on the project. Although the binding theme for all the compositions is, indeed, Christmas, this is not a classical seasonal recording which only has a potential to enhance the Christmas atmosphere, but will bring joy throughout the year.

Grown-Up Christmas

Though he is better known as a caricaturist and author of cartoons (regularly published throughout the last three decades by most of the major Czech daily newspapers), he has alongside developed a very colorful music career which stands miles apart from his work in humor. He has three albums under his belt as singer and songwriter and has authored scores of songs and lyrics on various aspects of the world disclosing his own take on life. In the poetry of his lyrics and the simple melodies of the songs, Kemel comes across as either an introverted solitary performing on the guitar or accordion or as a charismatic front man of his own band in which actor Vladimír Javorský has also played a central role. Kemel's new album VLCÍ STOPY (Wolf Trail) originated out of a first-time collaboration with producer Petr Ostrouchov and Blue Shadows band who also have met on Vladimír Mišík's two latest albums. Besides Ostrouchov, who has co-authored some of the album's repertoire, it features guitarist Josef Štepánek, double bassist Jaromír Honzák and drummer Martin Novák, as well as guest-vocalists Vladimír Javorský and Marie Puttnerová. Kemel's new album brings a collection of authentic songs and uncomplicated stories with are endowed, however, with overreaching meanings and implications, all in a lively and riveting performance by a group of experienced studio musicians.

Vlci Stopy

Azz Dock Orchestra, whose career was established by their first gig in January 2018, is a "house bigband" for Jazz Dock, the renowned Prague jazz club, a magic and favourite place on the riverside, where top players form the Czech jazz scene and from abroad meet and play. The Orchestra consists of some of the best Czech and Slovak musicians, helmed by the English saxophonist and composer, Andy Schofield. So far the Jazz Dock Orchestra has welcomed several legendary guests at it's gigs, among them Kurt Elling, Richard Bona, Ben Wendel and Niels Klein, and has played compositions and arrangements by the classics like Duke Elligton, Bob Brookmeyer, Charles Mingus or Gil Evans. Nevertheless, on this album, released to celebrate the band's 5th anniversary, the musicians present the compositions by their own co-leaders - Andy Schofield and Jan Jirucha. The album was recorded live to capture the inimitable atmosphere and the unique energy often returned to the players by their fantastic audience at the Orchestra's regular monthly gigs at Jazz Dock.

Tonight

Lubos Soukup - Zeme (CD)
Label/Studio: Animal Music
Album Format: CD
UPC: 8594155991303
Release date: 2018-02-16

Lubos Soukup - Zeme (CD)

An exquisite pianist and musician, NajPonk is one of the pioneers of mainstream jazz on the Czech music scene. From the bottomless resources of mainstream jazz repertoire he has been picking gems for his own albums. But although his repertoire mainly consists of the so-called "standard" pieces, his recordings are informed by unusual inventiveness and his acute sense of style and rhythm. For each of the albums, NajPonk usually invites different collaborators; "What's Next" has been recorded together with the famous Swedish double bassist Hans Backenroth and Czech drummer Jirí Slavícek. The selections chosen or this release include compositions by Milton Jackson, Count Basie, Danyel Gerard, and NajPonk himself, among others.

What's Next

Nikol Bóková is known as a classical pianist with a repertoire stretching from the Baroque period to contemporary music. Her first album of her own music inspired by jazz, classical music, minimalism and, in some respect, popular music, has been recorded in the traditional jazz-piano-trio line-up and the pianist's musical partners in this project have been talented exponents of the young jazz generation: MARTIN KOCIÁN on the double bass and MICHAL WIERZGON on the drums. Nikol Bóková's compositions are perfectly polished miniatures, simple in form but echoing the harmonic and melodic complexity of classical piano literature. Indeed, Bóková's play, defined to a great extent by her experience with classical-music interpretation, her brilliant technique and dynamic keystroke, is unique in the world of the jazz piano. In her compositions, Nikol Bóková effortlessly travels between genres, clearly fascinated by the possibilities they have to offer.

Inner Place

On the jazz scene, pianist and composer Nikol Bóková is last year's major discovery. Her first album, "Inner Places", with which the artist ventured out of her familiar milieu of classical music interpretation, brought her a nomination for the Andel Award for the best jazz album of 2019. This year, Bóková comes with a new project in which she innovatively combines masterful interpretation of demanding classical piano repertoire (Rachmaninov, Ravel, Novák, Korngold and others) with her own pieces inspired by various classical composers, such as, for example, "Unravel", dedicated to Maurice Ravel. Bóková is accompanied by her trio partners, Michal Wierzgon on the double bass and Martin Kocián on the drums. Bóková, whose masterful performance and classical training are crowned with her compositional genius, is one of the greatest Czech musical talents of recent years.

Unravel

Just one year after the release of her last album Unravel (2020), preceded by her debut, Inner Place, nominated for an Andel Award in 2019, the pianist and composer Nikol Bóková comes with her third album. The line-up in this recording is like the author's dream come true. Her colleagues are the world-renowned French-horn player Radek Baborák, guitarist David Doružka, double-bass player Jaromír Honzák and drummer Michal Wierzgon, who are all important representatives of two musical worlds - jazz and classical music - which Nikol has been originally and sensitively combining in her work. The material of the album draws on personal experience. The title alludes to Greek mythology but the individual compositions evoke moments shared with a loved person whose passing immediately preceded the project. Music is used to paint scenes and images, conjure up emotions and provide glimpses of memories. It contains strong melodic material and it's dynamism issues from alternating tempos which are typical features of the author's work. The musical worlds and the sound of the individual instruments on this album mingle naturally, even intuitively in this album which was recorded over the space of just two days, without any preliminary rehearsals.

Prometheus

The new album of the world-renowned horn player Radek Baborák, released on Animal Music, brings compositions by three romantic authors in arrangements for the French horn and string quartet. These include Radek Baborák and Alexei Aslamas's arrangement of Brahms's legendary Quintet in G major, Op. 111, two shorter pieces by Alexander Glazunov (Idylle and Serenade No. 2), and a Quintet in G minor, "Käyrätorvi" (French horn in Finnish), which was created by Baborák by extending the original score of Jean Sibelius's famous String Trio. This album by Baborák Ensemble - Radek Baborák (French horn), Milan Al-Ashhab and Martina Bacová (violin), Karel Untermüller (viola), and Hana Baboráková (cello) - features the world premiere recording of the works by Brahms and Sibelius.

Horn Quintets

On her new album; trumpetist and composer Štepánka Balcarová; the recipient of the Andel Award for the best jazz album of 2022; delves deep into human emotions. She quotes her recent experience of becoming a mother as her main source of inspiration: "Certain emotions receive a totally new dimension with motherhood. I used to think I knew what it meant to be angry or indignant; for example; and was able to rationalize such emotions; draw relevant consequences and thus come to term with them. With children; however; one often finds oneself in situations that don't allow for such distancing. This immediacy affects both negative and positive emotions. I've come to see them in an entirely new light." In the eight compositions comprised in her new album; Štepánka represents eight basic human emotions; as they have been defined by American psychologist Robert Plutchik: joy; trust; fear; surprise; sadness; disgust; anger and anticipation. A concert programme based on the concept of Emotions was premiered in 2022. Štepánka Balcarová recorded the album with a Czech-Polish quartet featuring Nikola Kolodziejczyk (piano); Jaromír Honzák (double bass) and Grzegorz Maslowski (drums). The same line-up also collaborated with her on the album Life and Hapiness of Julian Tuwim (Animal Music 2017) and the live album Štestí (Happiness; Radioservis 2022) which includes orchestral versions of the repertoire for which Štepánka Balcarová received the Andel Award.

Emotions

Earthy blues and soul jazz. The bandleader, saxophonist Radek Zapadlo (Vilém Spilka Quartet, Cotatcha Orchestra, Ondrej Ruml, Matej Benko, etc.) founded the quartet in 2017, inspired by the legendary recordings "Back at the Chicken Shack" and "Midnight Special" by the great "Hammond" player Jimmy Smith. Since then, the quartet has moved towards it's own original music in the aesthetics of those recordings and styles. All members of the band, even the traditionalist Radek Zapadlo, a well-known jazz conservative, forced themselves to write compositions for this band. Therefore we will have a unique opportunity to hear Zapadlo´s future hits Dog´s Blues, Fried Egg or Blues for Magda. Surprisingly early, the band has made it to their debut eponymous album, which was born in pain in the infamous studio Jalovec in Babice nad Svitavou. Radek Zapadlo, playing tenor and alto saxophone in Four in Blue, surrounded himself with equally experienced players so that the band's line up can pay respect to Smith's original recordings - Petr Turecek (a rising jazz star from the Department of Jazz at the JAMU Brno) on drums, Vladan Ronner (Mulligang, Milan Kašuba Trio etc.) on Hammond organ and Vilém Spilka (Vilém Spilka Quartet etc.) on guitar. The band's current repertoire is dominated by originals penned by all band members. You can check out the core of it on this release.

Four in Blue

In the year of the centenary of Ástor Piazzolla's birth, an album comprising some of the renowned composer's best-known compositions in the style of the Argentine tango is released by the conductor and phenomenal horn player Radek Baborák. The album's release on 11 March 2021 marks what would have been Piazzolla's one hundredth birthday. Coincidentally, Radek Baborák, who has completed his pioneering journey as an arranger of Piazzolla's work with this album, celebrates his birthday on the same day. The album has been recorded in collaboration with Radek Baborák Orquestrina, an ensemble composed of foremost soloists and chamber players. It's variable line-up is adjusted according to the needs of individual projects which mostly consist of tailor-made arrangements of music originally composed for other instruments. Baborák's wish to extend the repertoire for the French horn through such arrangements eventually brought him to Ástor Piazzolla. In collaboration with the arranger Tomáš Ille and having received consultations from the famous violinist Fernando Suárez Paz who had been member of Piazzolla's acclaimed Quinteto for ten years, Baborák introduced his first, original arrangements of Piazzolla's music in 2014, on the debut album of his ensemble. In 2019 he dedicated an entire eponymous album to Piazzolla, also recorded by Orquestrina. The characteristic sound of tango, provided by the bandoneon, is produced in Baborák's arrangements by the French horn, bass clarinet, violin and piano. Together with his colleagues, Baborák has expanded the catalogue of sounds and sound effects available for the performance of Piazzolla's music, including rapping on the French horn, slaps performed on bass clarinet, prepared piano, glissandos, imitation of the sound of cicadas, sirens and others. Performing Piazzola's music, the members of Orquestrina often incorporate improvised cadenzas, fixed improvisations and make free with Piazzolla's typical ornamentation.

Cuatrocientas Estaciones

Saxophonist Luboš Soukup together with his long-term musical partner, German pianist Christian Pabst, have recorded a new album released on the Czech label Animal Music. The duo mostly play their own repertoire and their artistic goal is to maintain a meaningful musical dialogue. By way of improvisation and their free approach to the compositions, they achieve a uniquely powerful style of interpretation. Levitas draws on jazz, but also dips into folklore and classical music for inspiration. The two musicians met in Denmark almost 10 years ago when they both lived in Copenhagen, studying at the Danish National Academy of Music. Already their first collaboration showed how well they got along, as musicians and personalities. Since then, they have given a number of concerts in Demark, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands and Slovakia. Levitas is their third joint album, preceded by Through the Mirror from 2013 and Zeme (Earth) from 2017, which was recorded together with the renowned guitarist Lionel Loueke as guest.

Levitas

The British saxophonist Andy Schofield who is based in Prague and who has for many years performed with various formations, now releases his own album. "Suite for JT" is a forward-looking, original composition for nine players which Schofield created several years ago for Manchester International Festival and performed on it's platform together with the illustrious pianist John Taylor to whom the piece is dedicated. For the first studio recording of this composition, the author has surrounded himself with musicians who belong to the elite of Czech jazz, including Jirí Slavík, Daniel Šoltis, Oskar Török, Vojtech Procházka and Marcel Bárta.

Suite for JT

The present release is the second album of Tomáš Hobzek, a leading Czech jazz drummer and composer whose name is associated not least with Organic Quartet which he co-founded with the world-renowned organist Ondrej Pivec. The album features original modern-jazz compositions performed in collaboration with other foremost players on the local jazz scene: saxophonist Marcel Bárta, pianist Vít Krištan, and double bassist Tomáš Liška. The perfectly coordinated formation with ample concert experience as a quartet brings a unique and authentic performance based on a shared sense of improvisation, energy, and atmosphere.

Supernatural Phenomena

Performer Notes: <ul><li>Personnel: Jarom¡r Honz k (acoustic bass, electric bass); David Doruzka (electric guitar); Antonin Tri Hoang (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone); Vit Kristan (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Jon F„lt (drums).</li><li>Audio Mixers: Milan Cimfe; Jon F„lt.</li><li>Recording information: Sono Records, Nouzov, Cz (11/02/2014/11/03/2014).</li><li>Photographer: Jir¡ Hron¡k.</li></ul>Producer: Jaromir Honzak, Petr OstouchovFormat: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 12 May, 2015Label: Animal MusicDimensions: 12.6 x 0.8 x 14.2 centimeters (0.06 kg)

Uncertainty

Organic Quartet Terms and Conditions Apply CD. Personnel: Jakub Dolezal (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Libor Smoldas (electric guitar); Ondrej Pivec (Hammond b-3 organ); Tomás Hobzek (drums). Audio Mixer: Milan Cimfe. Recording information: Sono Records, Nouzov, Czech Republic (11/28/2016-12/01/2016).

Organic Quartet Terms and Conditions Apply CD

'Garden of Silence' presents an astounding medley of moods in pensive and playful pieces by Ruzicka which confirm his remarkable gift for melodies and his reputation as an unsurpassable performer and improviser.

Garden of Silence

Zdenek Liška's music for the feature film "Marketa Lazarová" represents the height of the legendary composer's legacy. In 2015, the first and so far the only concert performance of the work took place at the Fórum Karlín concert hall in Prague as part of the Strings of Autumn music festival. The work was performed as a 90-minute oratorio created by Petr Ostrouchov on the basis of the authorial manuscript, retaining the original orchestration. The performance featured vocal soloists Katerina Knežíková and Josef Moravec, actors Josef Somr and Jana Štepánková, and the ensembles Martinu Voices, conducted by Lukáš Vasilek, and Baborák Ensemble, conducted by Radek Baborák. The production met with high critical acclaim and an enthusiastic response from the audience. Three years later, Animal Music and Strings of Autumn now issue a studio-mastered recording of that live performance which is also the first recording of Liška's composition since it was originally captured on the film soundtrack.

Marketa Lazarova

BOKOVA,NIKOL; RADEK BABORAK; DAVID DORUZKA; JAROMIR HONZAK; MICHAL WIERZGON

PROMETHEUS

The world renowned French horn player Radek Baborák has chosen for his new album "Orquestrina" compositions inspired by dance in it's various forms; alongside compositions by famous authors as Astor Piazzolla (Histoire du tango), Gabriel Fauré (Pavana) or Maurice Ravel (Boléro) the album also contains works less known, including Lev Kogan´s dances and songs rooted in Jewish music, Corrado Saglietti´s suite for horn and a string quartet and three small pieces for solo horn. The fifteen member ensemble is made of great soloists and chamber music players. Many of the compositions are presented here for the first time in newly created arrangements. The album is full of energy and masterful performances and undoubtedly it shall become an event of the year, not only within Czech music scene.

Piazzola / Shaw / Kogan / Faure / Baborak  - Orquestrina (CD)

RUZICKA,KAREL QUARTET; JOHN PATITUCCI; JON COWHERD; NATE SMITH

Grace & Gratitude

Performer Notes: <ul><li>Personnel: NajPonk (piano).</li><li>Audio Mixer: Milan Cimfe.</li><li>Recording information: Sono Records, Nouzov, Cz (03/10/2014).</li></ul>Producer: Petr OstrouchovFormat: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 12 May, 2015Label: Animal MusicDimensions: 12.7 x 0.7 x 14.2 centimeters (0.06 kg)

Child Is Born

Performer Notes: <ul><li>Personnel: Marcel B?rta (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Oskar T?r?k (trumpet, flugelhorn, electronics); Vojtech Proch?zka (piano, harmonium, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, electronics); Dorota Barova (vocals, cello, electronics); Daniel Soltis (vibraphone, drums, percussion); Rastislav Uhr?k (double bass, bass guitar).</li><li>Audio Mixer: Milan Cimfe.</li><li>Recording information: Sono Records, Nouzov, Czech Republic.</li><li>Photographer: Jan Tichy.</li></ul>Producer: Milan Cimfe, Vertigo, Daniel SoltisFormat: CD (1 Disc)Release Date: 13 January, 2017Label: Animal MusicDimensions: 12.7 x 14 x 0.6 centimeters (0.05 kg)

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