Mišík, Vladimír: Jednou tě potkám - CD

Vladimír Mišík's new solo album is interwoven with a life confession.

JEDNOU TĚ POTKÁM (I'll Meet You Someday) contains 14 songs created in collaboration with the musicians of producer Petr Ostrouchov's Blue Shadows. So, after 45 years, an album by the legend of the Czech music scene is heading to the market without his home band ETC.
"The whole project was created in musical harmony. And because of the sensitive themes of the songs, I consider it the most personal I have ever created," says Vladimír Mišík, who celebrated his 72nd birthday in March.

The fascinating story behind the new record is reminiscent of a thrilling Hollywood drama. The singer never knew his father and, until his seventieth birthday, lived under the impression he was an only child. It wasn't until the filming of a documentary two years ago that it was revealed the musician has eight siblings in the USA. "Vladimír's father was an American soldier his mother met at the end of the Second World War. He supposedly died in the Korean War, but that wasn't true," explains Šimon Kotek from the 100PROmotion record label.

The unexpected discovery of a large family is the theme of the track Brothers. Mišík recorded it for the first time as a Czech-English duet with Irish singer-songwriter Paul Brady. On this album, Vladimír Mišík's own lyrics are once again paired with poems set to music (Jiří Orten, Bohuslav Reynek, František Gellner, Jan Skácel).
The entire album is named after the title track JEDNOU, with lyrics by the poet Václav Hrabě. "I see it as my confession. The lyrics touch me because they aren't just about meeting a girl. They can also be about that fateful, final meeting," the singer adds.

. I sang about a sunny grave
in that abnormal time,
when Russian tanks ploughed through my land.