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Iva Bittová & Čikori have recorded a new album “At Home”. Nine original songs follow up marvellously the legendary album “Bíle Inferno” (i.e. White Inferno) both with the band members and the album’s poetics but also with its song form and the overall sound of the recordings. “At Home” includes three songs with English lyrics, which are essential for the album. At Home was written by Linda Gregg, A Paper Cone by renowned London critic, radio editor, occasional lyricist and poet, Ken Hunt. The band Čikori consists of Vladimír Václavek (guitar), Jaromír Honzák (double bass), Oskar Török (trumpet). Antonín Fajt (piano), Hamid Drake (drums) and a few others joined the recordings as guest musicians. The mastering was done by the well respected Dave Cook (e.g. Laurie Anderson, Nick Cave, David Bowie, Alanis Morissette, Radiohead) at the studio AREA 52 in New York. The album is dedicated to Lenka Zogatová and Zuzana Viktorinová in memoriam.

It took Iva Bittová and her band Čikori two years of fully focused but peaceful and joyful work to record a new album. “Nature and home are great inspiration for me and this atmosphere surely got on the whole album,” says Iva Bittová and adds: “I consider the title track At Home as one of the strongest one on the album.” The album “At Home” by Iva Bittová and Čikori is very close to the legendary album “Bíle Inferno” by its poetics, sound and band members who participated on it. The author praises the cooperation without any stress: “It was probably for the first time that we didn’t hurry and took it easy when working on the album. With a little distance, I can say that each track was compositionally finalized almost minimalistically.”

The author of music is Iva Bitová and Čikori. The lyrics for three out of nine songs were written by Karel David, the opening one, Noc was written by Vladimír Václave.......
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