Improvising unit
Tellemarkk, founded by
Pavel Hrubý of Limbo and universal multiinstrumentalist
Tomáš Reindl, who alredy released his multi-tracked solo album
Omnion on
Amplión Records, is playing tomorrow in Dejvice, at
Café Potrvá from 8PM. Pavel (saxes, bass clarinet, voice) and Tomáš (drums & percussion, tabla, didjeridu, pre-clarinet, blues harp, voice) were joined later by singing cellist
Dorota Barová of Vertigo and Tara Fuki and in January they launched their first, self released album
Koncert ze staré synagogy v Plzni, recorded previous year with trumpet player
František Kučera of Limbo acoustic line-up as guest. Café Potrvá is starting series of regular jazz and improvised music concerts - hooray !!!
On Easter Monday, and also on Tuesday, April 25+26, new album
Metamorphosis of Prague based sextet
Vertigo will be launched
Jazz Dock. One of recent top Czech jazz bands was founded in late 2oo2 by five young, but already experienced musicians, originated from different parts of Czech or Slovak Republic. Their first album
Vertigo Quintet (
Amplión 2oo5) was awarded with prestigious Gold Angel (formerly Czech Grammy) in Jazz & Blues category and brings pure acoustic contemporay jazz, close to ECM aesthetics. After second album
Live U Staré Paní (now defuncted, nice Prague jazz club), with guest singer
Lenka Dusilová on one and ad hoc string quartet in two compositions, again on Amplión Records in 2oo6, they attracted Spanish Fresh Sound New Talent label, but somehow it did not happened. What happened was collaboration with Silesian cello player and vocalist
Dorota Barová, after Quintet and his indivdual members guested on third album
Auris (
Indies Scope 2oo7) of highly original dual vocals / cello duo
Tara Fuki, and moving under new label, ambitious
Animal Music. Here was their 2nd studio work, named
Vertigo Quintet & Dorota Barová, released in 2oo8.
Marcel Bárta (soprano, alto & tenor saxes, bass clarinet),
Oskar Török (trumpet),
Vojtěch Procházka (piano),
Rasislav Uhrik (double bass) and
Daniel Šoltis (drums; all members also play small percussion and other various instruments on new album) are focusing also on other projects in between playing with sextet, which shortened his name to
Vertigo, with Dorota as permanent member now.
Metamorphosis is probably their most ambitious project to date (as all previous albums, comprised only of individual members' original compositions, this time mostly penned by Marcel Bárta) and is being released again by Animal Music as label's second output this year. After few listenings I can highly recommend it, as well as Tellemarkk cd :o)))