MARIE PUTTNEROVÁ & BAND
A TORRENT OF SONGWRITING SPLENDOUR CAPABLE OF MAKING US "DRUNK"
BLISSFUL INHALATION OF MARIE PUTTNER'S SONGS
So many people are suddenly singing its praises and believe me, there will be more and more of them, and we are not surprised and we cannot be surprised. Actually, it's for a simple reason: with two guitarists - her husband Martin Novák and Peter Uvira from Opava - she decided to record her first solo album, which would make them stumble, and in the end it turned out that it did the same with the listeners, and it also charmed the experts who award the Anděl prizes, so she went for the folk one this March, although she doesn't really relate to folk in the traditional sense. And the folk singer Marie would not have been bet on by anyone who had heard her before - even at Folk Festival - in the ranks of Jakblkon, Půljablkon, Cymbelín, Zvířete jménem podzim or the Skřivánek choir. "Throughout my time on the Czech scene I have had the opportunity to be in various groups from rock, folk, folklore, choral singing, to jazz, which I even studied. However, I see myself primarily as a storyteller of songs that resonate with me across the musical spectrum, and that's probably how it will always remain," Marie explained why she should be considered an extraordinary, genre-blind singer, empathetically connected to poetry and timeless music far from the mainstream.
Marie is no longer a part of the party as before, she has now become the leader of her own, and the album Laila tov is therefore undoubtedly a milestone for her: singing the poems and texts of Vlasta Třešňák, Jakub "Kittchen" König or the Catholic poet Jan Zahradníček, in other words, their deeply convincing interpretation, is left to her, her voice, her gestures and her captivating ability to make us "sing ourselves into silence" with such a torrent of splendour.
British producer Eddie Stevens (Jana Kirschner, Druhá Tráva and Róisín Murphy) has a hand in the fact that the Laila tov album reverberates in us for so long. He has enchanted the originally fragile guitar songs with sound and transported them to a magically alluring realm where we can only "blissfully inhale" them. And again, not just us: "After finishing the album, we found that we couldn't go back to the original versions, so much did it all hit us. That's why we recruited the excellent keyboardist and synthesizer player Martin Brunner. We're taking the sound of the album and moving on from it a little bit more."
Photo:Dušan Tománek
