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Stará Pekárna 2006 Directed by V. Fatko An extraordinary concert by two legends of Czech-Slovak music, Pavol Hammel and Radim Hladík, took place at the end of last year in Brno's Stará Pekárna. Spontaneous improvisations by guitar magician Radim Hladík accompanied Hammel's songs; as Pavol Hammel himself pointed out before the concert, Hladík heard some compositions for the first time directly on stage! The concert was thus in the spirit of a return to the old days of musical unrestrainedness, when a unique arrangement of a song is created directly for a specific mood, a specific evening and a specific audience. Hammel's originally rock songs were unusually well suited to the gentle folk guise. Together with the group Prúdy, Pavol Hammel was one of the most prominent figures of the Slovak music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Their concept albums fully resonated with the global onset of art-rock, a number of excellent instrumentalists and arrangers worked in Prúdy (for all of them, let's name at least Marián Varga). Pavol Hammel was also lucky to have excellent lyricists Boris Filan and Kamil Peteraj. Pavol Hammel's collaboration with Radim Hladík goes back a long time, Hladík participated as a guest on some excellent records of the Prúdy group already in the seventies. Even then, Radim Hladík was one of the most progressive and technically skilled guitar players, not only in comparison to our musicians - and his musicianship is still fascinating today. Hammel's Brno concert with Hladík, the recording of which is provided by ČT, may, according to both musicians, become the basis of a new chamber project. (distributor's official text)