Irena And Vojtech Havlovi

Irena and Vojtech Havlovi, a husband-and-wife duo, have passed through several distinct stages of development. They started to work together in the mid-80s and were able to develop what since the very beginning had been a very unorthodox approach to both historical and modern compositional techniques and interpretive procedures and were gradually creating their typically unclassifiable, multi-style and multi-media sound and image collages. In 1990 they released the first of their own CDs, namely Háta H. In this one and those that followed (Yoganidra, Little Blue Nothing, Music Of Silence, Mysterious Gamelanland, Tenderly To Light) they gradually developed their very original, musically autonomous and at the same time very listenable musical concepts. They travelled to India (Rajasthan) three times and recorded tens of hours of folk and spiritual music which they later released on four CDs. They also made two very inspiring films for Czech Television about India's spiritual life and their audiovisual project Mysterious Gamelanland won the acclaim of, especially, the less conformist public. They wrote more film music (The Way Through The Bleak Woods, Lines Of Shadow and Father, as well as a number of short films and documentaries) and music for the television and the stage. In the second half of the 1990s, they recorded and released more of their very original CDs - Vanity Of Wings, The Day In Benedict, Like Butterfly On Your Palm, Your Golden Boat.