NOCNI OBRAZ

Vladim?r Mi??k, whose recent album "Jednou te potk?m"(I'll Meet You Once) won six Czech Music Academy Awards and received excellent reviews, releases a new studio album entitled "Nocn? obraz" (Night Image) in September 2021. Like in the case of the previous project, this album originated in collaboration with producer Petr Ostrouchov and his band Blue Shadows. The music on the album is by Ostrouchov and Mi??k and the repertoire includes music composed to Mi??k's own lyrics and musicalisations of poems by Czech poets Jan Sk?cel, V?clav Hrabe, Jir? Orten and Franti?ek Hrub?n. As the final track of the album, the authors included the song "Dekuji" (Thank you), based on a poem by the recently deceased David Stypka. The new album features a number of distinguished international guests, including Blind Boys of Alabama, Jerry Douglas, Irish-music stars Davy Spillane and D?nal Lunny, percussionist from Paul Simon's band Jamey Haddad, or mandolinist Mike Marshall, and prominent local musicians, such as organist Ondrej Pivec, pianist Jan Steinsd?rfer, saxophonist Franti?ek Kop, and world-famous horn player Radek Babor?k and his ensemble. Alongside Mi??k's own voice, the recording also features guest vocalists Lenka Dusilov?, Robert Krestan, Lenka Nov?, Mark?ta Foukalov?, and a trio of New York gospel vocalists.