Clarinet Factory - křest CD

Seven years since the CD Out of Home and three years since the double album Worx and Reworx, the internationally acclaimed Clarinet Factory are set to release a new studio recording! The new album, titled Meadows and featuring, among other guests, Joe Acheson from Britain’s Hidden Orchestra, the folk ensemble Grunik and the percussionist Dan Šoltis from the Vertigo Quintet, is scheduled to be issued on 3 March by Belgium’s homerecords.be. As Clarinet Factory themselves put it, the new record marks a return to their “natural roots”. 

"It wouldn’t be accurate to say that we have been twiddling our thumbs for seven years. Over that time, we have composed the music for the installation of a Modigliani exhibition at the Municipal House in Prague, as well as for the Karel Zeman Museum, and we have accepted several offers for studio work, including from the Hidden Orchestra, Tata Bojs and Václav Neckář. What is more, our aim was to gather together for our new album pieces that have matured at concerts and have met with a positive response on the part of the audience. In this respect, I think we have succeeded, so we didn’t have to spend too much time composing at the studio, thus having avoided the related trials and errors,” says Clarinet Factory frontman Jindřich Pavliš.  

The ensemble, made up of Jindřich Pavliš, Luděk Boura, Vojtěch Nýdl and Petr Valášek, recorded the new CD at the SONO studio in Nouzov. Their main goal was to ensure that “all the tracks have a natural thrust, share a resonating colour and dynamics, that the music didn’t have to be made ‘chemically’ at the desk. Given our long-term collaboration, Milan Cimfe and Michal Vaniš know us very well, which is perceptible from the sound.” Moreover, the listeners can look forward to several new facets, which over the past few years have quite markedly changed the Clarinet Factory sound, such as the contrabass clarinet, analogue effects and other wizardry.  

An essential and organic component of the Meadows album is formed by the guests, who, according to Pavliš, have played a crucial role in helping Clarinet Factory to "return to our natural roots. It went by itself, subconsciously; we only applied tools somewhat different to those that could have been expected." 

The guests featured on Meadows include Joe Acheson from Britain’s Hidden Orchestra, a formation with whom Clarinet Factory have worked with for over three years now. Acheson has created the electronic and overall sound of four of the tracks on the new album. "Acheson is very sensitive, with a recent hobby of his being collecting natural sounds, making field recordings, all of which has fitted very well into the album’s idea and our clarinet-based sound," Clarinet Factory add.   

Drummer Daniel Šoltis will perform as a guest.

Admission seating CZK 350, standing CZK 250.

Band website: www.clarinet-factory.cz