BERGLJOT (the former Vojtech Prochazka Trio) began in 2008 as a jazz piano trio consisting of three students at NMH, Oslo and inspired by Paul Bley, Herbie Nichols and Ornette Coleman. The core repertoire of originals and original arrangements of not-so-known songs was recorded on the band's first CD "Amoeba's Dance" - http://www.animalmusic.cz/en/catalogue/vojtech-prochazka-trio-amoebas-da... and received very good reviews. Instead of repeating the successful piano trio formula the band began searching for a more personal sound. Taking chances with more open improvisation, instrument preparations, no set-lists, and by 2010 the trio began playing completely improvised concerts of startling clarity, with a fresh and unique sound of prepared instruments, unorthodox playing techniques and found sounds. A recording from of one such concert from May 2011 will make for the band's next CD "red red white red" to be released in early 2012. After a period of working with shorter, very varied improvised fragments of music has the band has started experimenting with a stricter, minimalist approach of very slow development with special focus on richness of sound. The band has received great reviews and has played on festivals such as Jazz Fest Brno, Natt Jazz Bergen and Jazzinec Trutnov as well as venues in France, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Norway and Czech Republic.

Are You FREE? internatiomal musicfestival 2012

19-20. october 2012

Venue:

NFG klub, Korzo B. Bartóka 788/1, Dunajská Streda

The music festival „Are you Free?” is a festival of particular genres. We are waiting for all the music lovers who were able to keep a kind of openness in their way of thinking and music taste, without taking the age into consideration. We would like to give publicity to improvisatory music genres, which help us to get rid of our ordinary music concepts and everyday ways of thinking. Thanks to improvisations you will be witnesses to creation of unique works of art. Moreover, besides the representatives of the best European jazz scene and other genres as well we could see and listen to world famous stars. The NA’CONXYPAN PT’s and Jazz Klub DS´s initiative is a unique struggle in the Slovak jazz scene, which hopefully gives a new impulse to Slovak jazz musicians, since avant-garde tendencies, like the free genre, are unfortunately pushed into the background. It must be borne in the mind that this will not have a positive effect only within this tendency, but the representatives of classical jazz scene can also learn a lot from it. The „Are you FREE?” project ensures more effective method of this studying, since those who are interested in can not only listen to the music but they can directly learn it from a famous contemporary musician within a workshop.

With financial support of The Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

With financial support of the Government Office of the Slovak Republic – program Culture of minorities 2012
With financial support of the municipality of Dunajska Streda