“There’s nothing wrong with the hated brass band that the communists fed us – the hippies – isn’t that bad. After all, it’s like that with every genre. It just has to be properly grasped, its essence captured and the most made of it. We miss the sound of military brass bands walking through the streets, the brass of spa orchestras and funeral marches behind coffins,” says František Skála about his new album.
He further adds that all this together creates an unrepeatable 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, it should not disappear from our lives as a relic of the past. For the sound of brass instruments, which does not need amplification and is intrinsic to hunting, goes straight to the chamber. “This is by no means a parody. It is an ode to joy and the fulfilment of philosophy, a nod to life and death’ as has always been the custom in the Czech and Moravian countryside,” Skála adds.
The gateway to the album “’Pojď se mnou děvče mé”’, recorded by František Skála with the Provodovjané brass band, is the hit “’Husserlova přednáška”’, already well known in philosophical circles, which grew up in the B.K.S. secret organization’s sweat lodge and in a few years ballooned like a snowball into a respectable 13 minutes. Apart from 4 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 issue of old age (4, 5, 10) and two other hits, also with necrothemes, composed by the author only at the time of the real vision of realization with PROVODOVJANY.
