Lucie Bílá: Soukup/Bílá/Osvaldová CD

The album maps the collaboration of exceptional artists. The very first significant joint work was the main theme for the film Requiem for a Doll. This was followed by the absolutely unique album Missariel, which heralded years of unique collaboration that included film and stage music as well as famous musical productions. "The power of what Gabriel Osvaldová and Ondřej Soukup created for Lucie in the following noughties has no parallel in the Czech pop of that time. Anyone who experienced some performances of their musical Joan of Arc knows what I'm talking about. And the fact that the phrase 'new Hegerová' appeared in some reviews at that time was not far from the truth...", writes journalist Josef Vlček in the album's sleevenote. "Over seventeen years of collaboration, Soukup, Bílá, and Osvaldová painted a distinctive picture of the journey through life. Their own journey and that of their generation. From energetic funk beginnings in Love is Love to the Slavic romance I Love You or the melancholy and hangover in So Much Wine, So Many Words. Always with charm and with the awareness that they express the same joys and experience the same pains as their listeners." The album concludes with a novelty in the form of a compilation of Lucie Bílá's extraordinary vocal abilities: "Lucie's eccentric abilities gave me the opportunity for experiments that...