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Prague Improvisation Orchestra & guests: debut album
PIO celebrated its five year anniversary in September 2017 with a two-day recording session with some excellent foreign guests in Czech Radio Studio A. Now we're going to release these recordings on a double LP with a fantastic cover by Klára Zahrádková.
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How did it begin
On a fourteen-hour train ride to a tour in the Netherlands in 2012, Petr Vrba and George Cremaschi decided to start the Prague Improvisation Orchestra (PIO), which would function as a unique Czech platform for large-format improvisation. The basic idea was to invite musicians from different scenes dealing with improvisation and experimentation (noise, electronics, jazz, and contemporary classical music), and create a unique base group that would combine their different experiences and ideas in one place.
What is our goal?
Our original goal was to support and link the various scenes involved with improvisation and experimental music in the Czech Republic, and also to promote our scene in the world. In five years we have organized more than 30 concerts with many international guests and this summer's concert in Nickelsdorf, Austria, will be the second PIO trip abroad. Now we want to release this new set of definitive recordings: from the deep textures and subtle interaction in Something is Trembling (by special guest composer Burkhard Stangl) to the surprising and strong voices of A Beginners Guide to Blurry Abstraction to the strong contrasts and massive sound of Cracked Syntax with Forked Tongue and powerful orchestra noise rock of Rope, this is an amazing and unique collection of sounds. Only PIO could sound like this!
Details
PIO concerts are often interdisciplinary projects involving light designers, dancers, visual artists, etc. Our 15-member core group has collaborated with over 100 artists from Czech and around the world (eg Mats Gustafsson, Mazen Kerbaj, Ingrid Laubrock, Martina Hajdyla Lacová, Thomas Lehn). On our five-year anniversary, we were invited by Czech Radio to make a two-day recording session. A total of 24 musicians including several foreign guests were included: Michaela Antalová, Xavier Charles, George Cremaschi, Barbora Čopáková, David Danel, Ken Ganfield, Veronika Hladká, Agnes Hvizdalek, Jan Jirucha, Mazen Kerbaj, Didi Kern, Pasi Mäkelä, Michal Matejka, Tomáš Mika, Elia Moretti, Lucie Páchová, Ivan Palacký, Iveta Plná, Vojtěch Procházka, Burkhard Stangl, Petr Vrba, Zdeněk Závodný, Michal Zbořil, Pavel Zlámal. The recordings were so successful that we decided to release them on a vinyl double album, with a super cover from designer Klára Zahrádková.
... and something more
The growing name of the PIO formation is confirmed by invitations from respected institutions, for example, Czech Radio organized a special concert which took place simultaneously at Studio Hrdinů in Veletržní palác in Prague and in CatMusica studio in Barcelona as a two-location live radio broadcast. The ensembles in both locations met in a common musical interaction during the performance which consisted of concepts developed by Barbara Held and George Cremaschi for each group. A live and online concert of two groups improvising in two places crossed the concert space of the radio air. The audience at Studio Hrdinů also got the chance to actively participate with their own sound image of the event using headphones. The recording of the whole evening and other information is available for download at the Czech Radio website:
http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica/archiv/_zprava/1294888
News
Oct 15, 2018 PIO RELEASE PARTY & CONCERT
Its comming! Two possibilities how to celebrate release of our double LP with us and pick up your rewards: 9.11. in Prague club PUNCTUM PIO & guests (Burkhard Stangl, Didi Kern) www.punctum.cz 16.11. in Pardubice THEATRE 29 PIO & guests (Paul Lovens, Xavier Charles) www.divadlo29.cz Come,…
MoreJul 26, 2018 Excerpts from recording!
Here are two short excerpts from the upcoming LP: https://archive.org/details/PIOExcerpt1
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remaining 74 from 100PIO double LPWe will give you the debut double album of Prague Improvisation Orchestra – either at the release concert or we will send it to you by mail, please state your preference in the note and provide your delivery address if you want us to send it.
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remaining 54 from 602 LP + PIO concertWe will give you the debut double album of Prague Improvisation Orchestra – either at the release concert or we will send it to you by mail, please state your preference in the note and (provide your delivery address if you want us to send it) + free entry to one PIO concert.
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remaining 93 from 100Double LP + season ticketWe will give you the debut double album of Prague Improvisation Orchestra – either at the release concert or we will send it to you by mail, please state your preference in the note (and provide your delivery address if you want us to send it).
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Ticket to all PIO concerts in 2019 (the minimum number of concerts is four, if there are less concerts the validity of the ticket is transferred to the next season so that a minimum of four performances is fulfilled).
(For LP delivery outside CZ, amount is plus postage upon agreement.)Reward delivery: not specified
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remaining 9 from 10One-day music workshopOne-day workshop focused on improvisation led by George Cremaschi or Petr Vrba, or possibly led by one of the other members of the PIO by prior agreement. (Space in CZ and necessary production upon you.)
Reward delivery: in a year after the Hithit project end
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remaining 10 from 10One-day workshop with two teachersOne-day workshop focused on improvisation led by George Cremaschi and Peter Vrba, or possibly with one of the other members of PIO by prior agreement. (Space in CZ and necessary production upon you.)
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remaining 17 from 20PIO PatronWe will thank you in print on the LP cover
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We will give you the debut double album of the Prague Improvisation Orchestra – either at the release concert or we will send it to you by mail, please state your preference in the note (and provide your delivery address if you want us to send it).
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Ticket to all PIO concerts in 2019 (the minimum number of concerts is four, if there are less concerts the validity of the ticket is transferred to the next season so that a minimum of four performances is fulfilled).
(For LP delivery outside CZ, amount is plus postage upon agreement.)Reward delivery: in half a year after the Hithit project end
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remaining 3 from 5Your own personal PIO concertA unique PIO concert (with a minimum of 10 members) will be the reward for you. Date, time and place (somewhere in CZ) to be determined by agreement.
Reward delivery: not specified
EUR 989.12(CZK 25,000)
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