Leaving Them


  • Recorded: December 2016
  • Record Place: Sono Records, Nouzov
  • First Release: 2016
  • (P) 2016 Animal Music
  • Genre: Folk

Artists

  • music by: Jiří Bárta
  • cello: Jiří Bárta
  • guitar: Josef Štěpánek

Album

Blue Shadows

Blue Shadows

Catalogue Number: ANI060-2
Published: 30th December 2016
Genre: Folk
Format: 1 CD
On its eponymous album, "Blue Shadows" consist of four musicians with different musical backgrounds. Cellist Jiří Bárta is a virtuoso known in the world of classical music, an excellent drummer Martin Novák plays with Lenka Dusilová, Jana Kirschner and David Dorůžka, versatile guitarist Josef Štěpánek performs and records with many artists of alternative and pop music, and guitarist Petr Ostrouchov is known mostly as a composer of film music (with five nominations for the Czech Lion award), and from his former long-term participation in the band Sto zvirat. The project of their joint album arose naturally from their last year's collaboration on recording of the score for the Czech TV miniseries "Blue Shadows". Each of the musicians contributed to the album with his original abilities and the diversity of their individual musical careers has become an advantage: the result seems to be a natural sum of their diverse musical experiences and skills. The album, mixing genres and influences covered mostly by the term "americana", i.e. american acoustic music, country, jazz and folk music, is in its majority an instrumental one and consists of recordings of compositions mostly scetched in the course of recording. Guest vocalist James Harries is featured in two songs, including the title song "Blue Shadows" from the TV miniseries of the same name.
Josef Štěpánek
1. Blue Shadows 02:30
Petr Ostrouchov
2. Talking Without Speaking 04:20
Petr Ostrouchov
3. 44 Years Later 05:30
Petr Ostrouchov
4. Theme From Blue Shadows 07:35
Petr Ostrouchov
5. Elsewhere 02:26
6. Song Of Happiness 04:40
Josef Štěpánek
7. Dancing In The Supine 03:49
Jiří Bárta, Josef Štěpánek
8. Eternal Summer 03:34
Jiří Bárta, Martin Novák
9. Based On True Events 03:51
Martin Novák
10. Home 03:48
Josef Štěpánek
11. Beauty Should Look So 01:49
Josef Štěpánek, Petr Ostrouchov, Martin Novák
12. Shadow Play 05:10
Petr Ostrouchov
13. Untutored Youth 04:08
Jiří Bárta
14. Leaving Them 03:10

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