The title of the CD is very simple ? just like the singing of Vlasta Grycová. How does this legend of Moravian folklore attract her listeners? Mainly thanks to her affectionate way of singing. It evokes the goodness we all carry within because it sounds so truthful and unglamorous. We feel it comes out of the depths of our heart.
The singer Vlasta Grycová is part of the most significant folk singers in Moravia and has had a rich career; she has not only performed with the famous Hradi?tan of Jaroslav Stanek, the dulcimer band Ol?ava from Uherský Brod, but she has also cooperated with the Brno Radio Orchestra of Folk Instruments which has been going on until today.
This CD by the Vlasta Grycová Dulcimer Band is supposed to be a celebration of the singer?s anniversary and an acknowledgement for years of musical life spent together. The band was founded in 1995 as children?s band called Huslicky. In 2004, the band released, together with Vlasta Grycová and the female and male choir from Strání, the CD called Pod Javorinú. Now the band has decided while celebrating this new album to acquire a new name ? Vlasta Grycová Dulcimer Band. Vlasta Grycová is a true singer legend; we know her mainly as a distinctive, inimitable interpreter of ballads and love songs from the Uherský Brod, Hradi?te, Kopanice and mainly Strání region. Vlasta Grycová records are one of those most refined songs there are in folk song.
The young Vlasta Grycová Dulcimer Band from Strání is led by her daughter, the bandleader Anna Prikrylová and, if it wasn?t for the dulcimer player Jakub Popelka, it would be a purely female dulcimer band. In some tracks the band is completed with guests such as Josef Mucka (viola), Jana Vintrová (violoncello), Pavel Popelka (bagpipes), Marcela Trtková (dulcimer) , Jirí Chovanec (dulcimer) and Radek Mahdal (small drum).
The female choir Netáta can be heard significantly in the record; their voices are recorded in five songs. Some of the female members also have solos, just like Vlasta Grycová. In three songs there are also male voices which belong to Pavel Popelka, Lubomír Málek and Daniel Bru?tík. The album was recorded in Uherský Brod under the supervision of Tomá? Komárek.
Tracks:
1. Do kostela zvonijá 06:01
2. Kosí Jano 03:18
3. Pod javorem, pod zeleným 04:28
4. Ach, lásko, lásko 04:35
5. Ní?e Nových Zámku 07:13
6. Zahrajte ne, hudci 03:56
7. Na tem na?em dvore 03:42
8. Za hor, slnécko, za hor 02:41
9. Vandrovali hudci 04:34
10. V tem brezovském poli 04:19
11. Joj, mamicko moja 04:57
12. Roz?íhaj, za?íhaj 04:52
13. Na jednej doline 08:32
14. Lásko, bo?e, lásko 01:59
