< /p> Musician, painter, poet, writer and photographer Vlastimil Třešňák presented a vinyl limited edition of his last year's album Kiks, March 6, 2023, Prague.
Prague – Musician, painter, poet, writer and photographer Vlastimil Třešňák presented a vinyl limited edition of his last year's album Kiks today in Prague. On that occasion, he played the title song to several dozen fans in the Koncept Letná Hall, accompanied by members of the band Temporary Quintet, to which he added Martin Hermann Böttcherz's melody from the film Vinnetou. Třešňák has not performed publicly for several years, according to him, he is currently most fulfilled by painting.
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“It is true that you never say never, and many bands have started playing again, even though they have announced the end of their performances, so I say maybe,” Třešňák told ČTK.
His new songs on CD were released last September, almost ten years after the previous record Alter ego. The musical form of the songs was created from the beginning in the collaboration of the author with the guitarist Josef Štěpánek and the keyboardist Jan Steinsdörfer, who were complemented in the accompanying formation Temporary Quintet by the bassist Martin Lehký, the drummer Miloš Dvořáček, the saxophonist Jan Štolba and the oboist Pavel Tylšar.
Album Vlastimila Třešňáka, who described his expression as “stubbornness”, is released on vinyl in a limited edition of 300 numbered pieces.
“Kiks is like a cabaret. A dreamy cabaret in which the form of individual performances changes. There is irony, playfulness, theatrical play, but also room for seriousness and poking at problems. Vlastimil Třešňák has the privilege of being able to express himself about society and the world . His words are not just critical poems and do not turn into an empty convulsion. His new record has power and knows what he wants to say,” wrote Jiří V. Matýsek in a review of the album on the musicserver portal.
Seventy-two-year-old Třešňák is one of the legends of the underground, a signatory of Charter 77 and a subsequent emigrant. The most famous of his creations is the record Zeměměřič from 1979 or the novel Klíč je pod rožokkou. From 1968 he worked as a freelance singer for six years. But he was also an auxiliary worker in a brewery, a gravedigger, an auxiliary surveyor, a camelot of Večerná Prague, an auxiliary worker at a bricklayer's, a hired sweeper or a night watchman. His signing of Charter 77 got him banned from public speaking. He began to engage in dissent, as he called the “cheerful ghetto”, became close to people around Václav Havel, played apartment theater with Vlasta Chramostová, Pavel Kohout and Pavel Landovský, and was active in the free singing association Šafrán. During the StB Asanace event in 1981, he was beaten during interrogation and a year later he emigrated.
He started in Sweden, then moved to Germany, and also went to the United States. He moved many times in emigration, after 1995 he lives mainly in the Czech Republic. He has Swedish and Czech citizenship. He has been painting and writing since the late 1960s. In the novel The Key is under the mat, he describes the times of emigration as well as the first impressions after arriving in post-apocalyptic Prague. In 2003, he also wrote the text for the musical Excalibur with music by Michal Pavlíček. And he also wrote lyrics for the female trio Alo Trio Band, which released its debut album in 2015. Currently, he is exclusively engaged in painting.
