Singer, lyricist and composer Vladimír Mišík is affected by health problems, but he recorded and will release a new album called Vteřiny, měší a roky (Vteriny, měší a roky). After the award-winning titles Once I’ll Meet You and Night Image, this is his third collaboration with producer and composer Petr Ostrouchov.
No baptism or concert though Vladimir Mišík it doesn’t count. “Thank God, I finished the album on time and in peace, which Petr Ostrouchov can create. There was no pressure, I sang comfortably, a little doped up with medicine, just according to the motto of drugs, booze and rock and roll,” says Mišík from his hospital bed in the Františku Hospital in Prague .
Immediately after the recording ended, he contracted pneumonia and bronchitis, which required almost a month in the hospital. “It’s already good, they should let me go home on Friday, August 9,” he said. “We’ll be celebrating the release of the album with friends and colleagues at our pub, where I’ll be crawling,” he hopes.
Mišík contributed to the album with six lyrics and music for two songs. He wrote the text for the composition entitled Měl jsem sen with former ambassador and recently the director of the Havel Library, Michael Žantovský. “This was our first collaboration. Michael and I had different approaches to the text, but he gave the basic idea, so we half-baked it,” notes to the musician.
In addition to texts by Mišík and Žantovský, the album features poems set to music by Josef Kainar, Jan Skácel, Jiří Dědeček and František Gellner. One text was written by Matěj Belko, Ostrouchov’s former teammate from the band Hundred Animals.
Unlike before, Mišík does not present himself as a guitarist. “Unfortunately, due to arthritis in my hand, I no longer plucked the strings on the guitar, so I put it in the case symbolically and now I use it as a hat stand,” he says. ‘ explain.
Vladimír Mišík has not even appeared on stage for several years. “I stopped doing concerts during the covid period and I never gave it up again. Before every show I put up corticoids because I wouldn’t have done it otherwise. in the end, but then the doctors didn’t recommend it,” explained the end of his concert career.
A band of ten members gathered in the studio, whose core is the quartet Blue Shadows, ie guitarists Josef Štěpánek and Petr Ostrouchov, bassist Matěj Belko and drummer Martin Novák. The new acts also feature US-based pianist Jan Steinsdörfer and Hammond organist Ondřej Pivec, guitarist Lukáš Martinek, double bass Tomáš Liška as well as two foreign guests – an American percussionist of Cuban origin Michito Sanchez and British pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole. Among others, Mišík’s son Adam contributed vocals.
“We recorded like in the old days – everyone at the same time, very fast and intuitive. I am very grateful for the number of great players with great ideas and feeling for the whole. the vocals were also recorded and the brass in two songs,” said Some time ago the representative Ostrouchov.
Vladimír Mišík started with music in the 60s, when he sang with Komet, Matadors and Blue Effect. Towards the end of the first half of the 1970s, he founded the group Etc…, with which he played for several decades despite many personnel changes.
In 2017, a documentary film was made about Mišík’s seventies Let Mišik sing, which was filmed by Jitka Němcová. He has released albums in the last five years I will meet you one day a Night picture.
Video: When I overcome a crisis and give up, I feel good. I hesitated whether to sing about death, says Mišík (October 8, 2019)
“When a person is in trouble, he is in crisis,” said singer Vladimír Mišík in 2019, when he was a guest of DVtv. | Video: Martin Veselovsky
