Muziga

Set up in 2000, the original Moravian folk group Muziga may be the main vehicle for Jirí and Helena Vedral’s appreciate of Eastern Western european folk music. If the group had taken its last name just 2 yrs before the discharge of its public debut, O Lásce (“about like”), it in fact is available since 1992, when the Vedrals begun to perform jointly professionally. Because the starting guitarist and violinist possess shared a like for Czech folklore and specially the music of Wallachia, an area of Moravia where Helena Vedralová exists; “muziga” is normally a Wallachian phrase for several music artists. The duo documented the cassette Jaborové Huslicky in 1995. It currently highlighted bassist Petr Korínek, an in-demand program jazzman who collaborate using the few for five years. They documented the Compact disc Hej, Lesem (or “Hello In the Forest”) in 1998 and performed through the entire Czech Republic and Poland. In 2000, Jan Dvorák stepped directly into replace Korínek. Bassist using the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, he brought along his colleague Cécile Boiffin, a French percussionist lately emigrated towards the Czech Republic. Boiffin’s effectiveness in an selection of cultural and mallet percussion equipment supplied the music using the ornaments it had a need to go directly to the following level. That’s when your choice was designed to provide this quartet a name of its, Muziga. O Lásce arrived in middle-2002, where period the group acquired currently toured Poland, Portugal, Britain, and america. Jirí Vedral and Helena Vedralová also continue steadily to perform jointly in other tasks. They show up on Feng-Jün Song’s record Mountain Caravan.