František Skála & Provodovjané – „Pojď se mnou děvče mé“

"There's nothing wrong with the hated brass band music that the communists fed us hippies. After all, it's the same with every genre. You just have to get it right, capture its essence, and get the most out of it. We miss the sound of military brass bands marching through the streets, the brass of spa orchestras, and funeral marches behind coffins," says František Skála about his new album. He adds that all this together creates a unique atmosphere that brings tears of emotion to the eyes from a full-fledged cultural experience and, in the interest of preserving the spiritual values of this civilization, should not disappear from our lives as a relic of the past. The sound of wind instruments, which does not need to be amplified and is an integral part of hunting, goes straight to the heart. "This is by no means a parody. It is an ode to joy and the fulfillment of philosophy, an affirmation of life and death, as has always been the custom in the Czech and Moravian countryside," adds Skála.

The opening track of the album "Pojď se mnou děvče mé" (Come with me, my girl), recorded by František Skála with the Provodovjané brass band, is the hit "Husserlova přednáška" (Husserl's Lecture), already well known in philosophical circles, which grew out of the hotbed of the Secret Organization B. K.S. and within a few years snowballed into an impressive 13 minutes. In addition to four songs from Skála's father's old Prague and tramp songbook (2, 6, 7, 9), popular with children as "educational," there are other poetic gems published in the collection KALOTY, poetry by B.K.S. (published in the RR edition), focusing on the issues of old age (4, 5, 10), and two other hits, also with non-necrological themes, composed by the author only when he had a real vision of their realization with PROVODOVJANY.

František SKÁLA – vocals

PROVODOVJANÉ:<br>
Martin Prokop – 1st flugelhorn, Josef Gregor – 1st flugelhorn, Miroslav Slovák – 2nd flugelhorn<br>
Milan Slovák – tenor, Lukáš Zuzaník – baritone, Miroslav Mikel – E-flat clarinet<br>
Jan Prokop – 1st Bb clarinet, David Dominik – 1st accompaniment, Petr Šůstek – 2nd accompaniment
Luboš Chmelař – trombone, Vladimír Divoký – tuba, Zdeněk Rak – tuba, Alfons Slovák – percussion