• 28/02/2023
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Pianist Nikol Bóková: I had a cruel need to compose things for my own joy<

Is one of the biggest domestic talents of piano games.With ease it combines classics, improvisation and electronics, presents its music world through fans through the project named CataPlasm and a year after the release of a successful debut is going to shoot the second album.Nikol Bóková invited Markéta Kaňková to the business card.

She had longed for a piano teacher from the age of five - but only because she didn't know anything about the existence of concert pianists.In nine she played for the first time with an orchestra.”I have the words of the moderator on the camera.He says I am convinced of being a concert player, ”smiles Nikol Bóková.Less than twenty years later everything is as she wished.She has completed the piano at the conservatory and jam and will soon begin to perform again and also record.On the second album, it combines the love of romantic and jazz music inspired by the compositions of Vítězslav Novák or Sergei Rachmaninov.

Nikol Bóková / Inner Place

In the business card, however, we were talking mainly about the current debut album Inner Place.Nikol Bóková recorded her in the line -up piano - drums - double bass and received for her nomination for the Angel Music Award in the jazz category.The album was created "only from the cruel need to compose the things she wanted to listen to for pleasure".The fact that the album also captivated other listeners is perceived as a bonus.And also as a great miracle.

It was exactly what I dreamed of

The author believes that the jazz is referred to mainly because of the classic jazz line -up.For her, however, the resulting sound is more important;This is exactly what she imagined when writing songs.In one breath he mentions the absolute interplay of the trio members, Martin Kocian and drummer Michal Wierzgon waited and did well."I had folded four songs and started looking for people to play with me.I addressed various friends, but I still felt it wasn't that.They will be daring to address jazzmen, but then I saw Michal to play at a Brno concert, ”describes the first meeting with the existing drummer Wierzgon..From the musician Marian Friedl then received a tip for his teammate Kocian.They had a test and immediately found that there was nothing to deal with.”When the boys started playing, it was exactly as I imagined it.It's up to misunderstanding, because my ideas were very strong.”

Music - classical, jazz and electronic - plays a big role in the life of Nikol Bóková.In the keys she has a constantly stuck with a flag and records his ideas regularly.In melodies they often feel colors or stories and real joy can make a well thought out harmony.She likes romantic music very much: she says she captures her emotional nature well.She likes songs by Robert Schumann, Ference Liszt, Maurice Ravel and the already mentioned Sergei Rachmaninov.”When I practice selected pieces of these authors, I feel like I know naturally what to do with them.I don't have to be afraid to go after my feeling, ”he explains.

During the coronavirus quarantine, Nikol Bóková slowed down and plunged into the exercise of one of Schumann's compositions.She revealed a note after the note, gave her to the right fingering, tried to fully concentrate and guard to ”too often did not tear off the chain.”

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Nikol Bóková: Inner Place

It is precisely the study of new songs, but also tips on what to notice at a classical music concert, how to perceive different kinds of interpretation of the same composition or what mistakes to avoid in professional playing are the content of its multimedia Internet project CataPlasm, which for their fans and supportersprepares with his life partner Jan Valou.While Nikol tries and performs, Jan records everything on the camera.They left the idea of a long -term time -lapse document and turned it into a regular CataPlasm project, but they did not stop.One day they would like to make a movie together.They would write a screenplay together, Jan would be director and Nikol the author of music.

Listen to the entire business card in which Nikol Bóková speaks in detail about the folding of electronic music, about cooperation with her Trio, and how her Cembal studios ended up.

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