Co jsem nezapomněl aneb Z deníku potulného písničkáře II. – Burian Jan (2022)

The first volume of memories by poet, prose writer, and songwriter Jan Burian (* March 26, 1952) What I Haven't Forgotten maps the author's childhood, adolescence in Hradčany, the search for his own artistic path in Husák's Czechoslovakia, and the opening of new possibilities after November 1989. The second part captures the author's experiences, observations, and creations from the nineties to the present. A collage of Burian's storytelling, period notes, and quotes from various documents describes once again the great arc from television shows, documentary films, and travel through music albums to writing essays, travelogues, and books about his own parents. The author invites us to take a look behind the scenes of Sitting with Jan Burian and the controversial Burian's Day of Women, into the recording studios where music albums about the Girl War, fragile men, a different time, twelve kinds of loneliness, and more were created. We will also travel with him to Denmark, Portugal, Chile, Iceland, and many other places, as well as into archives in search of information about the author's ancestors. We will learn about the loneliness of solitary songwriters, how Jihotaje is born, what the rock and roll band Vozembouch was, and how a songwriter-retiree lives and works during the COVID era.