Jan Fic is to Christen his First Album, Město

30 January 2019, 1:00
Jan Fic is to Christen his First Album, Město

Jan Fic released his debut album Město (“City”) in cooperation with the producer Martin E. Kyšperský in December of last year. The performance will include the band The Weathermakers together with guests who took part in making the recording.

Jan Fic is a Brno blues musician, maker of musical instruments and frontman of The Weathermakers, but also performs as a solo artist. He recently released his debut album Město, which was produced by Martin E. Kyšperský. About his first album, Fic says: “I was playing long before The Weathermakers. Since the band tried to stick with a single genre, my solo playing stopped setting itself any boundaries, though it still of course leans towards blues poetics. Thus, I ended up with songs that we couldn’t play with The Weathermakers and so I played them by myself. It is actually a coincidence that an album got made out of them, and it is all because of Martin Kyšperský, whose instruments I had repaired several times. I didn’t want to ask for money, so we agreed that I would ask him when I next want to record something. In the spring of 2017, we agreed to record a demo in his studio and in the end, we got a full album.”

The christening of the Město album is set for 15 February 2019 from 9 p.m. in the Music Lab club.

Jan Fic/ photo Jiří Sláma

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