The Quartet out, The Trio in...
You get to part 3 of this mini series from HERE!
Libor Šmoldas Quartet out, Libor Šmoldas Organ Trio in, Jakub Zomer – org; Daniel Šoltis – dr; Libor Šmoldas g. For those who don’t understand, like me!
, this tempo is intensive, a lot of things to be done in only one day. The Organ Trio, a well established orchestra, well known in the republic and elsewhere, do they need a video, really? If I lost you know go to part 2 of this mini series. This is another pitfall for many, and not only musical groups. Hard work has finally got results and you are able to call yourself an established artist/group, with regular gigs, might even have gotten so far that you are able to pay the rent even if the Cadillac is still at the retailer. If one doesn’t belong to the very small lineup that’s called a star, you still have to keep reminding people of who you are and what you do. So leave the Cadillac at the retailer and invest in advertisements, even if it stings a little. And this goes for most of the fields, I should know being a Finn, anybody remember world leading mobile producer Nokia?

The chemistry
So Libor stays, the members change. And like I said, this is hard work for everybody and without a certain chemistry this would fail even before it began. And not only the chemistry, these people are all true professionals, your way of guaranteeing a good result. Go to part 2 again if you’re lost. And no, here’s no take 57, 3rd edition, I would guess it belongs to Hollywood. There’s no time for it, not to mention the expenses, another reason to only work with pros. Two takes per tune, no more and that has to do. As a small side comment, this is my bonus when moving around with my camera, this is brilliant music, because these guys don’t fool around, studio or not, they enjoy what they are doing and like always it’s a question of honor to make it sound as good as possible. So at the end of the day, when it’s time to get your gear and move on there is still a smile on everybody’s face. Maybe the feeling you get when you know that you did something good or maybe just because you enjoyed your day at work, or maybe all together, you tell me! 😀
Not over
Just to clarify one thing. For most of these guys the studio was only a part of their daily work. Some went to Brno, some to Prague for the next jobb, a gig, teaching etc. some of them came from there before the studio. The video crew started to assemble the equipment, the studio crew preparing for the next day. And Libor, whose project this was from the beginning? Well, somebody had to start mixing the audio tapes, this is still not Hollywood where somebody shouts, “take 58 was perfect we got it”, no it doesn’t end there. So when the lights go down and the evening falls on SONO records there is still one man left, because he loves what he does, maybe even more than we love listening to him…