Janousek Milos: Laby labyrintu - CD

“The album brings many intertwining guitar motifs, styles and moods, so it' s a good idea to have a map with you, so that the listener does not get lost, ”Explains Slovak singer and guitarist Miloš Janoušek, why he named his solo album Maps of the Labyrinth. Janoušek, the founding figure of Slovak folk, recorded a purely instrumental album for the first time, on which he introduces himself as a brilliant acoustic guitar player who can speak with the abstract language of tones as urgently as in the lyrics of his songs.

Miloš Janoušek was born in Bratislava in 1952. His artistic career began in the first half of the 1970s on the boards of Prague (during his studies) and later of Bratislava' s theaters. In 1975 he started performing in a singing duo with Dušan Valúch, in 1979 he co-founded the singing association Slnovrat and in 1985 he joined Dušan Valúch and Karel Svozil and their trio still forms the basis of the folk group Jednofázové kvasenie. He is the co-author of the first Slovak folk rock musical A Former One Miller in the Mountains. (1984), he also performed with Zuzana Homolova, Ivan Hoffman and other singers, he wrote screenplays for Slovak Radio.

Even in the 1990s, he was one of the main folk figures in Slovakia. He moderated radio programs (Songs into the Darkness), prepared a project Pesničkári slovenskí for Slovak Television as a playwright, and deliver news from Slovak folk to the Czech magazine Folk & country. However, he also wrote prose and his book of short stories Nevoskové panoptikum won the Award of the Association of Publishers and Booksellers of Slovakia for the best debut. In 2001 he founded a website dedicated to the folk Folknet.sk, in 2006 as the leader of the author' s team he presented the fundamental monograph Folk in Slovakia.

At present, Miloš Janoušek is still a member of the group Jednofázové kvasenie, with which he recorded his last album Rybí menuet in 2016. As a solo guitarist, he introduced himself in 2012 on the album of the Slnovrat song association called Triquetra, for which, among other things, he wrote and recorded the title instrumental composition. In the novel Map of the Labyrinth, he introduces himself as a player and author influenced by folk, Renaissance music, blues and country. In addition to his own compositions, the Breton traditionalist Hanter Dro, the English ballad Packington' s Pound, one composition by the Renaissance composer John Dowland and one composition by the contemporary Scottish guitarist Dick Gaughan included the album. Janoušek' s colleague from the group One-Phase Fermentation Karol Svozil (recorders) and Miroslav Nemec (keyboards) perform as guests on the CD.

Playlist

Hanter Dro / Bells / Staccato & Toccato / Bassing / After midnight / Albatross / Danse Macabre / Sand Garden / Packington ' s Pound / What If A Day / Both Sides The Tweed / Hat Dance / Slide / Cantenbury / Labyrinth / Trauermarsh / Advent Song / Miou-Miou