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View Poll Results: What is Music? (Poll added on 6th of May 2012).
On my way home from shopping, “Take my hand” was picked by the randomizer. Cruising through the French country side listening to this kind of music, gives me a strange feeling of being misplaced in the multiverse. Still. Again.
Iva Bittová
Absolutely ... whatever your preferred acclamation is. 2021
Damn, she's good. Thanks for 2 more songs.
And extremely pretty back in the day.. *sigh*
Melodic folk impro minimalism has always been her thing, but I like best when she plays together with others.
I like her "Bilé inferno" album best I think, from the turn of the millenium.
There's a lot of stuff on youtube, mostly live, some of it great, some of it really bad a/v quality.
I also have an LP from the mid-80s where she played with a band, very different from the folky stuff. And some tapes from around the same time...
What I like about Iva Bittová is the jolliness and complete liberty. Improvisations like this look sometimes like the natural thing to do, and then it becomes stand-up comedy or a completely hilarious demonstration of skill and wit. Like all that music is, put into one piece and one performer.
That's very high praise, but I tend to agree with your description.
She also gives me a groovy, modern and relatable version of East European folk music.
Here's what Milan Kundera wrote about her:
Quote:
... Europe's "small nations" form another Europe. The violinist-vocalist may be a "small nation" Czech but her musical worldview and visionary creativity acknowledge no borders. Her powers of spontaneous creativity are more bountiful than it is fair to confer on one person. Witness and marvel.
I guess I'm on a revival trip now, have to start ripping the CDs I have immediately.
PS: it's always a sign of a good musician when their live stuff and their studio stuff are equally good.
Since my late ex husband was a musician and he always said that Eric Clapton was God, I've been listening to some Greatest Hits CDs from the thrift stores and the dollar discount bins.
I'm even learning how to play "Tears from Heaven". Very badly.
So what is all this nonsense about The Reds vs The Blues, anyway, and why I can't have my Lynyrd Skynyrd any more?
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