Šansony & spol. + CD šansony Renaty Drössler – Žáček Jiří (2015)

Žáček's chansons are poems with the strongest text appeal. Poems connected with music have a unique attraction for both readers and listeners. The author selected expressive artistic photographs to accompany them, and the book includes a CD 'Motýl něhy uletí' by Renata Drössler, who set fifteen texts to music and sang them with emotional charm and adrenaline-fueled commitment. Therefore, Jiří Žáček's new book has an unusual title 'Chansons & Co.' It is a book of poetic texts that have been set to music, often multiple times, sung by artists such as Michal Prokop, Věra Wajsarová, Karel Plíhal, Jana Koubková, Karel Černoch, Alena Antalová, and most recently Renata Drössler, whose CD is part of the book. Žáček's chansons are genuinely lyrical, dramatic, ironic, and grotesque, thrillingly raising adrenaline and serving as a window into a moment from which we leap into a landscape of wondrous imagination. The poet composed the book in such a way that it captures the variability of moods and feelings we experience simultaneously. Such is life, joy and melancholy, happiness and the bitterness of disappointment, longing for love and romantic self-irony. All of this encompasses Žáček's sensitivity to people and the world in which he lives with us, confessing what he sees, feels, and how he wishes to understand it, for it is mainly personal and private...