First bands on our festivalDJ ZIGZAGhttp://www.myspace.com/deejayzigzagEn.dru (aka Ondřej Havlík)
In 2007 Ondřej Havlík graduated in the field of acting from the Faculty of Theatre of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. He is the twofold champion in beatbox in the Czech Republic, winner of the European competition 1st Marathón beatbox battle, and champion of the Czech Republic and vice champion of the world together with the Beatburger band group in the team beatbox category.
En.dru conducts his one-man-jam show which, other than beatbox-vocal improvisation, also compiles of musical improvisation with the use of the so-called loopstation. En.dru records audio tracks created only with his own voice and mouth, that is without any electronic effects or musical instruments, directly in front of the crowd. He combines these tracks into various loops with the help of his loop station. In this way a unique „acappella“ improvisation of different musical styles such as electro, hip-hop, acid jazz, funky, ethnic and more, is created right before the eyes and ears of the viewers. The basis of all this is beatbox rhythms, vocals, beatbox effects, imitations of musical instruments and rap. So there's defanitley a reason to look forward to this presentation!
http://www.endru.cz
YouTubeGREEN SMATROLL
The group Green Smatroll formed in the course of 2002. At first it was a small project called Jam Session but over time the band, which is comprised of a keyboardist, guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer, trumpeter, tenor saxophonist and alto saxophonist, began to concentrate on SKA. The band was a big success in the Czech Republic and abroad which is testified by the fact that they appeared on stage next to musical giants of the SKA international scene such as New York Ska Jazz Ensemble, Rotterdam Ska Jazz Foundation, Yellow Umbrella, Fast Food and many more. They are also regular participants of the festivals Skankin Pragga, Mighty Sounds, Reggae Ethnic Session and Sázava Fest. In 2004 their first album Green Perception (2004) was released which was influenced by bands such as Skatalites, New York Ska Jazz Ensemble or Yellow Umbrella in the same way as many of the album's musical styles were influenced by Balkan and Arabian motives and klezmer music only to give some examples. Their second album called So This Night (2006) was released in 2006 and christened in their native band club Klub 007 Strahov on June 22nd 2006. In April of this year the band won a 2009 Angel award for Album of the Year in the Ska & Reggae genre for their album Rude Jazz (2009). At the present time the band plays in an eight-member setup - Kaňour (pianist, singer), André (guitarist), Skřeťoch (trumpeter), Medvěd (drummer), Pan Štrapapa (T-Bone player, vocalist), Jenda (bass T-Bone player), Kristýna (bass guitarist) and Kůča (saxophonist).
www.greensmatroll.cz
www.myspace.com/greensmatrollJAMCHESTRA
Jamchestra is a music band from Brandýs nad Labem which originated in 2009 and specializes in music styles of jazz, drum & bass and acoustic. Officially there are nine of them but most of the time they play in different compilations and in various numbers. This is why every single one of their concerts are unrepeatable and unique experiences.
www.jamchestra.czMARADONA JAZZThe group Maradona Jazz originated in 2001 on the impulse of DJ-e, also known under the nickname Mucho. He came up with the idea of combining classic record playing with live instrumental music to accompany it. Mucho's Latin American production was joined by Hraboš with his alleged cry and Jarda Stuchlý on drums. DJ Baltazar and saxophonist Šimon Ornest were added to the trio in 2002.
Mardona Jazz got together in the Prague club Mecca where the guys played at events known as the Saladas. After large success they began to circle dance festivals as well, such as the Trutnov Open Air Festival, the Global Connection and Creamfield (where they allegedly lured off a large part of Massive Attack fans; information that is substantially unconfirmed and unprovable).
Mardona Jazz freely improvises in the chill-out music style on latin-american, ethnic and house themes. They are also not against using musical talents of anyone from their enthusiastic listeners. The only condition is having the same kind of sense of humor as Maradona Jazz does.
http://www.maradonajazz.cz/MARDOŠA
Mardoša (born Marek Huňát) is the bass guitarist and a cofounder of the band Tata Bojs. Besides music he also does exceptionally well in the field of literature - he is the author of the column Pozorovatelna in the magazine Rock&Pop and also published articles in Lidové Noviny and Mladý svět. He wrote two books - Cool v plotě (1995) and Nanobook (2004), which talks about the events surrounding the album Nanoalbum (2004) by the Tata Bojs band. Besides Mardoša, another member of the band - Milan Cais - was involved as an illustrator for this book. Mardoša won third place in the competition for the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Culture Award for this book.
www.myspace.com/mardosha
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YouTubeTATA BOJS
The group Tata Bojs is a Prague alternative rock band that originated in 1988. The founding members are Mardoša and Milan Cais. They arranged their first concert already in elementary school on June 29th 1988 in the TJ Spartak Dejvice gym. They recorded their first album in 1992 but they did not succeed in releasing it. The four musicalized nursery rhymes by Josef Lada which they recorded in 1994 met the same fate. Their first studio album with the title Ukončete nás was released in 1997 and this was joined by another album Nekonečná stanice a year later. Afterwards they were able to close a contract with the recording company Warner Brothers. A turning point for the band was the year 2000 when they released their album Futuretro that in January 2010 was ranked by a MF DNES public inquiry of music critics and specialists in first place of the ten most important albums of the last decade (2000 - 2009). Other albums are: Termixes (2001), Biorytmy (2002), Attention! (2002), Šagalí léta 89 – 97 (2003) and Nanoalbum (2004) – awarded with four Angels (the Band of the Year, the Rock Album of the Year, the Video Clip of the Year and the Best Sound Recording of the Year). Their last album so far is called Kluci kde ste? (2007). In 2002 the video clip of the song Attention Aux Hommes won an Angel for the Video Clip of the Year. The current members of the band are Milan Cais (singer, drummer and lyricist), Mardoša (bass guitarist and lyricist), Vladimír Bár (guitarist), Dušan Neuwerth (guitarist) and Jiří Hradil (pianist and keyboardist).
www.tatabojs.cz
http://www.myspace.com/tatabojs
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The band WWW originated in the early 90's in Prague. The name is an english abbreviation for „We Want World“ and yet no one could have guessed that they their name would be one day known all over the world as a synonym to the internet.
WWW was the first hip-hop and rap group in the Czech Republic, and besides music, they have also devoted themselves to graffiti, breakdance and the turntable scene. In the last few years the band has distanced itself from classic rap music, and through the usage of live instruments, they have profiled themselves as a post hip-hop big-band. After 1998, when WWW released it's songs on independent compilations, they began to cooperate with bigger recording companies. The band was beginning to make a name for itself in the mainstream and it's members wanted to return to a artistically independent career. WWW broke up, and got back together again in 2006 with the debut album Neurobeat. Other albums of WWW are Tanec sekyr and the compilation album Revolver Revue.
WWW's music is based on elements of hip hop using real recorded industrial samples or digitally generated sounds. WWW combines principles of hip-hop, industrial and electronic music. In the Czech Republic, they are sometimes compared to the Beastie Boys, Massive Attack, NIN and the Young Gods.
http://www.myspace.com/neurobeat
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