Singer Honza Holeček from the group Livin Free: Evil has reached nice energy – Information

You might be additionally a member of the teams Flamengo Reunion Session and Holeček & Marcel Mission. What position does Livin Free play in your musical life?

Completely essential as a result of it’s my very own challenge. Right here, I’m fulfilling my desires as a composer and lyricist.

You will have been on the scene because the late eighties, you might be one among our greatest laborious rock and blues singers. Does your voice change in any means?

I really feel it’s getting higher. I have not gotten to the purpose but the place I really feel it is getting worse and a few limitations are coming. In recent times, I’ve been engaged on singing methods, which have helped me loads. I handle to maintain my voice in form and I can take into consideration making the singing strains pretty much as good as doable once I write.

However I haven’t got to shock anybody with the vary. I wish to sing tighter passages, however crucial factor for me in songs is to inform a narrative. I agree with that interpretation.

What position do phrases play for you?

Completely vital. There are topics that I need to sing about, and I need to course of them poetically, that’s, curiously. Within the texts, I’m drawn to matters which might be present on the earth. Some are purely philosophical. Many issues have an effect on my life and I attempt to sing about them in lyrical music. Some are harder for the viewers.

For me, the tune Devil Tore His Horns Away follows the lyrics of the Rolling Stones tune Sympathy for The Satan. In it, the singer Mick Jagger tells about historic occasions, concerning the homicide of the Romanov household or the taking pictures of Kennedy, coping with the particular person of Jesus and the like.

I’ll proceed by saying that evil has returned. I sing concerning the occasions in Tiananmen Sq. in China, the dying of Pavel Wonka or useless kids in Bucha, Ukraine. That is unhealthy for me.

The tune is about the truth that evil has already reached such an influence that even the best consultant can’t management it. He has no management over it as a result of we as people management it ourselves. And so he takes out his horns and retires.

If I’m not mistaken, the topic of evil is just not new in your phrases…

There’s loads of it in them, you are proper. I attempt to gentle among the phrases, however burning folks, torturing babies, kidnapping and violence have a nasty impact on me. I am not going to sing concerning the world being good. I really feel that I’ve to say one thing about what is going on on the earth.

Final December, a shot was fired on the philosophy college. Evil, as you say, was inside attain at the moment. Did he contact you?

It was horrible for me. At the moment, I already had all of the lyrics on the album prepared, mainly it was prepared. I believe that if it wasn’t like that, the topic of the taking pictures on the college would have been included in some textual content.

The covid years had actually shaken me earlier than. I seen how relationships between folks modified, sadly for the more severe. It could by no means have occurred to me earlier than folks in our nation and in lots of different nations had been divided into irreconcilable teams. I might by no means have thought that fascists would assault the Capitol in Washington and begin destroying it.

Can evil nonetheless be eradicated?

Delete perhaps not, however delete sure. And I am positive we must always cope with it. On the album From Cradle to Coffin I contact on religion and perception in a number of songs.

They’ll play an vital position within the battle towards evil, however sadly they’re at the moment failing at this. One of many missions of our album is that one’s non secular outlook must be modified.

I can be glad if folks come to our present and say to themselves afterwards that they will do issues in another way of their lives. Or when he understands after listening to the report. I believe music has the flexibility to alter folks’s attitudes and open their eyes. I’ll attempt to try this.

Your album options drummer Winston A. Watson Jr. How did you meet?

We met in 2021 on the Blues Alive competition in Šumperk. We did a Bob Dylan memorial live performance there and he was selling a movie about his 5 yr time with Dylan. I actually preferred his recreation again then. It did not matter that he was drumming with Dylan.

I wished to speak to him and I requested him if he can be concerned in our album. I did not actually have a word on the time, however it was vital to me. He’s a black man who has a typical American means of feeling and enjoying blues, jazz or gospel. He promised me assist and it labored. He recorded six songs for us.

How did he get Dylan?

He advised me that he bought into Dylan and perhaps even the band MC5, with whom he additionally performed, by chance. He bought a proposal to affix Dylan’s band at a live performance close to the place he lived on the time. It was someplace in Arizona. So he introduced his drumsticks and instantly came upon that it was a daily huge live performance, the place 1000’s of individuals had come.

He performed songs he is by no means performed earlier than, however as a result of he is a great drummer, he put it off. He was mentioned to be shaking after the live performance. He referred to as his spouse and advised her that he had certainly performed with Dylan. She advised him that he should not speak a lot, and after that he advised her that he was going residence and that he would inform her the entire story.

Nevertheless, at the moment the supervisor took him by the shoulder and requested him the place he thought he was going? He replied that he would go residence, after which the supervisor advised him: “You will note residence in half a yr. Bob preferred it and needs you to complete this tour with him.’

He reportedly protested that he solely had one knapsack, denims, a t-shirt and golf equipment with him. Properly, the supervisor answered him: Don’t fret, we’ll purchase the whole lot for you. Name residence and say you will be again in six months.

Did his spouse put up with him?

They later divorced. She married a pal. Winston by no means remarried and led a de facto nomadic life. And since he’s expert together with his palms, when he does not have a job as a drummer, he’s employed as an electrician, a repairman or a gardener, for instance.