Milli Janatková & Jaroslav Kořán (double album launch)

The album Songs of the Day and Songs of the Night is a cross-section of the fifteen-year musical collaboration of Milli Janatková and Jaroslav Kořán, which began with their meeting at the conservatory in 2010. Their joint improvisations, initially often ephemeral and unrecorded, were gradually created during recording sessions in their home studio in Prague and at their cottage in Pošumaví. Janatková layered spontaneous vocal improvisations on top of Kořán's musical motifs, which were subsequently supplemented with other instruments and sound arrangements. The result is a varied collection of compositions oscillating between energetic improvisation and meditative ambient surfaces, inspired by the sounds of nature and the city and the shared playfulness of both authors.

Milli Janatková is a musician and visual artist who bridges genres and artistic disciplines. In addition to painting and printmaking, she is an improviser and composer, singer, guitar and percussionist. In addition to the club and festival scene in the Czech Republic, she has performed abroad (India, Nepal, Denmark, France, Greece, Germany, Portugal and Norway). Her albums Proměna (2013), Mým koroům (2017), Hluboko (2020) and Klid, prosím! (2022) have won awards at The Independent Music Awards, LIT Talent Awards and a nomination at the Classic Prague Awards. Janatková's work expresses respect for health and opens up themes of responsibility and self-discovery through an understanding of stories from personal, familial and cultural history. After twenty years of teaching and volunteering, she is a freelance creative.

Jaroslav Koran deals with music and sound, graphics, photography and video, whose main common feature is controlled chance and the use of unusual materials and techniques. He plays a variety of percussion instruments (including his own instrument, the Dreamer's Eagle). His domain is improvisation, film and theatre accompaniment, and he is involved in music recording, sound recording and editing, video filming and editing, photography and art making. In 1992 he founded the improvised music ensembles „Orloj snivců“ and „Zapomenotý orchestr zeme snivců“. After studying photography, he made a living as a photographer, and since the 1990s he has been working as a musician, composer and sound designer on various theatre, film, dance and exhibition projects - for example with Petr Nikl, Agnes Kutas, Petr Tichy, Michal Nejtek and Feng-Jün Song, Jan Burian, Milli Janatková and his brother Michal Kořán. He has released many albums.

Entrance: 250,- CZK in pre-sale, 300,- CZK on the spot in cash