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Requiem for Uncle (live)

David Kollar

On 6.4. my uncle Jozef "Džony" Tkáč died at the age of 56. Half a year before him my grandfather died and half a year before him my grandmother died. Joseph took care of my grandparents. He died of chronic heart disease. I think he died of grief. He was left alone in the house. He used to sleep on my grandmother's bed. He was very fond of her. My
On 6.4. my uncle Jozef "Džony" Tkáč died at the age of 56. Half a year before him my grandfather died and half a year before him my grandmother died. Joseph took care of my grandparents. He died of chronic heart disease. I think he died of grief. He was left alone in the house. He used to sleep on my grandmother's bed. He was very fond of her. My grandfather was a trumpet player. He was the chief of the brass band in Fričovce.
So I started this improvisation with a sample of the trumpet of my friend and musical colleague Arve Henriksen. The beat is from my friend Rick Cox.
I called the piece Requiem for Uncle.
Rest in peace.

David
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La Monte Young Comp. #9

David Kollar

I received a package in the mail in which a line was drawn. The envelope was sent to me by Michal Kořán. It also contained a cover letter that La Monte Young had sent to various musicians in 1960, asking them to set the line to music. The piece is called Composition #9.
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A Sense of Destiny

David Kollar & Arve Henriksen

“Over time David and Arve managed to create a specific sound language of their own, which is beautifully reflected in this recording. It goes way beyond just the music, and could be very well described as sound painting, sound sculpting or perhaps sound dancing, with its cross-media concept, that it creates, at least in my perception.

The music
“Over time David and Arve managed to create a specific sound language of their own, which is beautifully reflected in this recording. It goes way beyond just the music, and could be very well described as sound painting, sound sculpting or perhaps sound dancing, with its cross-media concept, that it creates, at least in my perception.

The music flows unhurried, as if freed from the fourth dimension and rhythmic patterns, like wind, which blows gently and unpredictably. It is up to the listener to become part of the process of creation and setting the pace, by which these sound collages take shape within or between the brain cells.

The beauty of this music is like an elixir, which hopefully might cure or at least reduce the suffering, to which all of us are exposed in the world that surrounds us: loneliness, estrangement, desperation, futility… destiny? Music, after all, makes life worth living. As always, the magicians / alchemists behind this sound potion have my eternal gratitude.”


Adam Baruch, Jazz forum

(Album dedicated to Jozef Tkáč, Marta Tkáčová, Barbora Cienka, Andrej Migaš and little Alma)
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The Vision Man (original radio play soundtrack)

David Kollar

It was not easy to devote myself to composing music when 92 km from my town the war is raging in Ukraine.


The Vision Man is the music for the radio play prepared by Slovak Radio. It is a play about the dead river Ipeľ, in which life has completely washed away. I had 4 days to compose the music. Doing music for a text is something completely
It was not easy to devote myself to composing music when 92 km from my town the war is raging in Ukraine.


The Vision Man is the music for the radio play prepared by Slovak Radio. It is a play about the dead river Ipeľ, in which life has completely washed away. I had 4 days to compose the music. Doing music for a text is something completely different from doing music for a film. It feels like 2D to me. You can't use music to push the lyrics of a radio play. The music is very quiet in it and underscores the text. I have decided to post these 17 samples of the music that I have prepared in my little studio.
Thank you for your support.

Sincerely, David
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Unexpected Isolation

David Kollar & Arve Henriksen

The Best Jazz album by Esprit
The Best Jazz album Radio Head Awards
Nomination for The Best Experimental album Radio Head Awards
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Sculpting in Time

David Kollar

THE BEST JAZZ ALBUM by Radio Head awards.
Nomination for the best album by Tatrabank foundation


The album is dedicated to Andrej Tarkovsky and Jozef Kukura.


I started to work on the album from October 2018. My initial ideas were sent to Eric Truffaz. Gradually, I engaged Arve Henriksen, Pat Mastelotto and Christian Fennesz in the process of
THE BEST JAZZ ALBUM by Radio Head awards.
Nomination for the best album by Tatrabank foundation


The album is dedicated to Andrej Tarkovsky and Jozef Kukura.


I started to work on the album from October 2018. My initial ideas were sent to Eric Truffaz. Gradually, I engaged Arve Henriksen, Pat Mastelotto and Christian Fennesz in the process of creation. I also played my sketches for Peter Popelka, a painter, who has an atelier above my studio. We were holding endlessly long academic conversations on creation and art. That's why I decided that the album cover should undoubtedly be made by him. Sculpting in Time is inspired by Andrej Tarkovsky's theory that a movie itself is sculpting of time sculptures. I perceive it similarly in music.  These 14 tracks on the album are my time sculptures of what I went through last year. 

I would like to thank all the musicians participating in the album.  I thank Erik Truffaz for the opportunity, Arve Henriksen for being a bottomless well of inspiration, Pat Mastelotto for his giant and always helpful heart. I thank Christian Fennesz for his time and musical structures. I thank my family Janka, David and Barbara for their patience, I thank Jan Sudzin for always telling me "let's releaset it, David". I thank Marek Sálka, Vlado Kačala, my father, Peter Ondruš, Valer Dugas, Tomáš Mutina, Valerij Kupka, Peter Michalovič, Blanka Berkyová for their trust and support  and last but not least all the people who were close to me during this creative period.
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10 Poems for Ronroco

David Kollar ft. Erik Truffaz

Nomination for the best word music album by Radio head awards

Bonus: Poems by Valerij Kupka
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