Lenka Dusilová - guitar, vocal
Beata Hlavenková - piano
Clarinet Factory: Jindřich Pavliš, Luděk Boura, Vojtěch Nýdl, Petr Valášek
Lenka Dusilová on a journey to uncharted territories - what counts here is rhythmic pulsation, coupled with the multilayered, opulent sonic world of ambient music. The fresh and inspiring climate of this new sonic landscape is enhanced by the creative share of pianist Beata Hlavenková and the Clarinet Factory experimental quartet.
Several-times Anděl annual music awards winner, the genre-pigeonhole defying singer Lenka Dusilová has never been one prone to stagnation and repetition. In 2007 she made a U.S. tour (involving among others a performance opposite the country music icon Emmylou Harris). On the Czech scene, still prior to inconspicuous budding partnership with musicians from the (post)jazz Vertigo Quintet, she guest appeared in traditional songs on new recordings made by the band Čechomor, and more recently has still drawn on an earlier collaboration with the Continuo theatre ensemble... Her new repertoire brings a surprising yet thoroughly natural synthesis of all these inspirations. Lenka sings texts and wordless tunes, and the whole project receives an apposite and selfless final touch from a lineup of excellent instrumentalists, the Clarinet Factory (previously the Czech Clarinet Quartet), and pianist, composer and arranger Beata Hlavenková. The team´s fruitful work together has given rise to songs offering the chance of forays onto a freer, musically bolder and more abstract terrain, and of safe returns to familiar ground. In the outfit´s live musical performance, an important place is assigned to cleverly employed electronics. Towering above it all, though - thanks chiefly to the charismatic input of Lenka Dusilová - is the human element. Lenka Dusilová proves once again she is an artist endowed with boldness, suggestive power, and accessibility.
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