David Kollar – Behind the frozen Window

David Kollar – guitars, piano, voice / Barbora Kollar – voice / Arve Henriksen – sound effect, trumpet / Rick Cox – voices processing

This album is a musical story I composed at the beginning of December, when we got a lot of snow. I was looking out of the window at the frozen landscape and reading poems by my friend Valery Kupka. I decided to set these evening moments to music and read the poems in two languages. Slovak and English together with my daughter Barbara. Each language has its own melody and dynamics. On the album there is also a piece by Ryuichi Sakamoto from the film The Revenant. Sakamoto loved the poetics of Andrei Tarkovsky as much as I did. Moreover, The Revenant is set in winter...