Michael Moravek & Electric Traveling Show
"LOST"
2022 German Import CD
NEW / SEALED
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For the new album ‘Lost’, released in 2022 and the first part of a dilogy (the second album will follow in winter 2022), Moravek also drew inspiration from literature and linked his own themes to it. He cites Bernard Malamud, Mark Twain, Antonio Tabucchi, Billie Holiday, Julius Fučik, John Connolly and the Bible as sources of inspiration for the songs at hand, as well as people, places and times that are lost.
In his songs Michael Moravek combines literature with his own experiences of uprooting. His lyrics are poetic, sometimes political. With his Electric Traveling Show, he combines the skills of jazz musicians with the curiosity for exciting interplay.
‘I had a permeable, percussive album in mind. Dreamlike floating, warm and with a lot of space', says Moravek. About his songs, he says they are good when they are genuine and serious and not written for the wrong reasons. They should have the ability to clear the soul and enable listeners to detach from the here and now. ‘A song is good when it pours imagination into images, and it grooves while doing it!’
Press:
"Together with his splendid band Electric Traveling Show Michael Moravek releases an impressive new album." - Ulrich Grunert
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released May 6, 2022
The album was recorded and mixed by Thomas Fuchs on stage at the Ravensburg Theater during the first Lockdown and at the Video- und Soundatelier Wetzisreute. It was mastered by Brian Leach at Joyride Studio in Chicago, Illinois.
In addition to his backing band Electric Traveling Show, consisting mostly of jazz musicians, he has gathered musicians from St. Louis, Prague, Feldkirch, Stuttgart and Ulm:
Electric Traveling Show: William Widmann (drums, percussion, bass), William Bruce Kollmar (bass), Ayu Requena Fuentes (organ, electric piano, trumpet), Andrej Polanský (electr. viola, mandolin).
Guest musicians: Troy Brenningmeyer (lap steel), Peter Schwaderer (oboe, English horn), Herbert Walser (trumpet), Bastian Brugger (saxophone), Wibke Schaller (background vocal)
photography: Michal Moravek