BRATŘI ORFFOVÉ - BINGRIWINGRI / F.Škrla, P.Tichý, T.Damec, K.Vidličková, D.Hercig...

1. Na hadim ocase

2. Patek

3. Sova

4. Vlacek do Bingriwingri

5. Vzduchem

6. Bingriwingri

7. Nevypinam

8. Krnovska

9. Odcizeni

10. More

11. Onyta Almyim

františek škrla ~ petr tichý ~ tomáš damec ~ katka vidličková ~ david hercig ~ břetislav koláček ~ tomáš dvořák ~ filip míšek ~ jaro ridzoň ~ honza bartoš ~ marian jaslovský ~ dano salontay ~ jordan dabov ~ vítek král

It all started in the mid-ninetees in the North-East end of the Czech Republic. The city of Krnov is small enough so the two soon-to-become Orff Brothers were simply meant to bump into one another. Lukas Novotny and Ivan Gajdos had known each other before, but the idea to revamp and rework Ivan's original and poetic songs was only conceived some 4 years ago.

"Ivan had been unlucky to have no niche for his music. When touring folk festivals, he was too rock-sounding; when playing a club, he wasn't rock-sounding enough" remembers Lukas, who dreamt of turning Ivan's original output into a "21st century folk". A little leery at first, Ivan was in the end convinced by Lukas to involve technology in the project; the two then got to business in 2002, "the less experienced we were, the more enthusiasticly we worked". They passed the result to the respected nu-jazz/experimental music producer Matous Godik (aka ZKA4T), who soon fell for the music and took active part in the project. The creative core thus extended to three people Why "The Orff Brothers" anyway? "Ivan teaches music, and there's a so-called Orff school within music-teaching. It's a didactic method developed by Carl Orff that teaches children play simple rhythms and then progress to more difficult pieces; it makes you try to find a feeling for the music, rather than cram the notes. A range of 'Orff instruments' are used, such as wooden sticks, metalophones, vibraphones and so on - instruments that we actually use as well. So hence the Orff part. The Brothers part, well... true folk musicians are always brothers, so it was a bit of a wheeze. Also, the 'Orff Brothers' sounded to us like the 'Orm Brothers', who were the first local synthi- producers. We had a good laugh". Folk + electronics = folktronics. To accept such equation would be an oversimplification, for there's much more to Bingriwingri.

(Quazi Delict Records 2005)