Iva Bittova & Pavel Fajt : Bittova & Fajt
This Checzh duo of singer/violinist (and actress) Iva Bittova and drummer extraordinaire Pavel Fajt caused a small sensation in European festival-circles upon their arrival in the late eighties with a beautiful mixture of poetry, folk elements and a distinct Checzh style of songwriting underlined by Fajt's subtle & inventive drumming style. Released in 1987, this is my favourite album by the multi-talented Bittova, who very quickly became a worldwide 'new music' star. She made a couple more albums with Fajt & the group Dunaj and has a pretty rich solo discography.The Checzh music scene is incredible, perhaps the strongest in Continental-Europe. There are great groups too numerous to mention and well worth of thorough investigation (you can try Tamizdat for this).
Darek
posted by rz at 3:56 PM
6 Comments:
I TOTALLY AGREE!
bittova & fajt are extraordinairy! seen them first in the step across the border film. afterwards bought the review 117 cd AND the czech panton release, which has different titles as well - will sure post this in some time! they're so great!
your posts seem to spring right out of my record collection, i can't believe it! the hat shoes, faust iv, chadbourne's english channel (i have the vinyl one!), oswald's plunderphonics, this heat - are you someone out of my imagination ...? ;)
thanks for putting so much very fine in the ring!
I am really surprised that i see that album here.. thank you.. another album made by bittova and fajt was called "Pustit musíš".. and it´s really really good.
just wanted to thank you for all the posts so far - i'm one of the rather quiet lurkers (and downloaders) around here...
actually my heart jumped a bit when i discovered that blog devoted to Rec. music some time ago - it's good to see that stuff around!
ok orang,
we have a nice understanding going on here, also we have similar tastes (& lot of similar albums in our collections :)
btw keep firm to that english channel longplayer, it'll worth a fortune in some 10 - 20 years!
all best
z
chicken,
there will be some more iva here in the future. this album just happens to be my favourite...
vespucci,
thanks man!
all the best to both
z
I agree with all of you, Bittová and Fajt are extraordinary (and the liner notes of the czech release say, that they have practiced intensely for half a year before recording this album - no wonder). Fajt's drumming is not producing rhythm, but melodies. So beautiful.
Recently I made a list with Bittová spots available on Youtube, because it is even greater to see her than only hearing her (I saw her solo once, amazing, bewitching!). In case anybody's interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBkz7LZypE (Iva Bittová und Nederlands Blazers Ensemble – Divna slečinka)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkUzPehOxQ (Iva Bittová & Bang on a Can – Elida)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fSHymhj5c8 (Iva Bittová & Nederlands Blazers Ensemble – Francouzská)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWWJld7v-I (Iva Bittová – Huljet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG_GgjMgxk (Iva Bittová & Skampa Quartet – Muzikante co děláte)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBENu6woEfw(Iva Bittová & Bang on a Can Allstars – Bolíš mě lásko)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMuPnBpnAMI (Iva Bittová – Proudem mléka)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-jUAIs89iE (Iva Bittová & Václavek: Sto let)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORX2zPanAfY (Iva Bittová & Richard Muller – Stane se)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPf5ND_8eM (Iva Bittová – Uspavanka)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rFhgwh0FHk (Iva Bittová & Bang on a Can All Stars)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qKfuFzgo0 (Iva Bittová & Bang on a Can All Stars – Samota)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eXSNautGmc (Iva Bittová & Václavek – Vzpomínka)
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