František Skála & Třaskavá směs

A group of excessively playful artists - František Skála, Petr Nikl, Miroslav Černý, Ondřej Černý and Petr Tichý, an unknown number of instruments, animals and plants, and a whirlwind of intended and whimsical songs, both their own and adapted (Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan) performed by Czech artists.

Someone once said that "Opportunity makes the Rock", and Petr Nedoma, director of the Rudolfinum Gallery, described František Skala's successful exhibition as a "shaky mixture". This is the title of another of the many projects of this versatile artist.

The first solo concert of this group took place at the film festival in Slavonice. František Skála invited Petr Nikl, who sometimes accompanied him at parties, to play his Balkan "bisernica", and he brought multi-instrumentalist and composer Miroslav Černý. It's nothing more than to play nicely and with gusto from time to time. And this, both pieces taken (by Presley, Dylan or Waits) and songs quaint - to the amusement of the company, learned from Skál's father, which few know. That is to say, unprofound. Then there are original songs, somehow spontaneously accumulated over the years, which never had the ambition to find themselves on a CD. Eventually, however, so many of them were accumulated that, at a time when it is forbidden to play and sing, we saw Skála at a ripe old age with his Debut.

Some of the songs were written under the pressure of events on the occasion of the opening programme, as was the case with the Finský Barok group (an older project of František Skála), from whose repertoire some of the songs originate. Unlike Finnish Baroque, where the music "born out of the tension between top artists"but the Shaky Blend is about harmony and joy. By expanding the ensemble with the double bass of the seasoned, excellent player Petr Tichý, the depths were firmly anchored, so that the trumpet of the sensitive Ondřej Černý could be heard at the right time.

On the album Debut the band's sound was enriched in some songs with a tin guitar banjo from the workshop of Martin Růžička (Sketa fotr), which he and Skálou exchanged for a work of art. We can also hear Petr Tichý's trombone or Petr Nikl's popular rubber piggy bank. Petr Vavřík and Marcel Gabriel took care of the good sound, mix and master in Studio V in Zlín.

Entrance 350 CZK