Impressions, by Žofie Kašparová & The Peacock Tree

Impressions

by Žofie Kašparová & The Peacock Tree

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Impressions on a CD with a beautiful cover design by Helena Čubová and Swedish nature photos by Žofie Kašparová.
"Impressions" were recorded in a beautiful place in the Swedish countryside in August 2019.

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1.	En tidig morgon på Lilla Amundön 00:32	buy track
2.	Z Moravy 01:21	buy track
3.	Eleven 06:14	buy track
4.	Uddinghe 05:47	buy track
5.	Peacock Tree 06:24	buy track
6.	Zjara podzim 05:26	buy track
7.	Sengångare 06:59	buy track
8.	Měla jsem 01:18	buy track
9.	Světla a tramvaje 07:02	buy track

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The genreless contemplative and dreamy sound of flute, saxophone, trumpet and double bass connects influences of jazz (Uddinghe, Sengångare), different kinds of world music, minimalism (Světla a tramvaje), Arabic rhythms (Eleven) and Scandinavian folk music. The majority is instrumental music but there are even two songs where Žofie sings in Czech.  
 
“Peacock Tree was created as my graduation project in 2017. That time I decided that for the band I will choose people regardless of instrument. Musicians with whom I always get goosebumps when we play together and we click in all ways. That created a compositional challenge: a quite unusual setting of instruments (flute, sax, trumpet and double bass) to which I had to adjust my pieces and which, I think, makes it all much more interesting and fun. In my compositions I’m trying to capture the atmosphere of a moment or a situation, a bit like the impressionist painters. I get inspired by the puls of the city as well as the Swedish landscape with its long silent winter nights and long summer days where a sunset can easily take many hours,” says Žofie. 
 

credits

released April 18, 2020

--Line up--
Žofie Kašparová - flute, bass clarinet, vocals, compositions
Robin Johansson - soprano and tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Robin Backgård - trumpet
Erik Bengtsson - double bass
guest: Gustav Davidsson - trombone

recorded and mixed by Gustav Davidsson at Studio Glasfågeln
mastered by Adam Pakosta at 3bees studio
layout by Helena Čubová

compositions by Žofie Kašprová
lyrics by Narcis Půlpán (Zjara podzim) and Žofie Kašparová (Měla jsem)

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Žofie Kašparová & The Peacock Tree Gothenburg, Sweden

Genreles music inspired by deep forests in the autumn, the city in the middle of the night, pictures mirrored on the lake surface, silence of a winter morning, landscape behind the train window and behind the window of your own eyes.