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Jan Brabec

About Me


I was born 4th January 1982 in Pilsen, Western Bohemia, Czech republic, where I live till nowadays. My first musical steps has been realised in a default art school for children and young people, where I learned to play the piano. Then I left after 2 years and come back to the field of music at the age of 13 on the guitar and other instruments. Then I joined these ansambles:
1989 - 1997 member of traditional czech dance and music ansamble Skoda/Mladina.
1998 spent a few months in St. Bartholomew choir in pilsen cathedral.
1999 - nowadays member of czech/british band Poitín playing trad and contemporary celtic music on the bouzouki, whistles and banjo.
2001 played the mandolin on music/theatre grup Vodotrysk.
2004 - 2006 played the viola on soft underground band Bratrovokolecko (Brother's Circle) own music.
2005 prepared an electronic/acoustic/psychedelic performance with dance group NoTa called Tornades of a Pulsating Sound. Played the viola and electric guitar.
2005 - 2007 found member of celtic fusion ansamble Ciúnas Nua in Prague on the bouzouki.
2008 - currently in progress with plenty of musicians on a balkan/celtic CD in outline plan called Uci me, majko , lead by René Starhon.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/10/2007
Band Website: www.poitin.cz
Band Members: Mental requirements and flying elephants
Influences: General: Dead Can Dance, Kíla, Sigur Rós, The Klezmatics, Pink Floyd, John Cale, Dónal Lunny

Celtic: The Bothy Band, Planxty, Lúnasa, Solas, Anam, Whirligig, Millish, Míse, The Pogues, Flook, Mike McGoldrick, John McSherry, Cora and Breda Smyth, Cara Dillon, Sinéad Lohan, Niall Vallely, Darren Maloney, Christy Moore, Luke Kelly, Andy Irvine

Czech: Mispacha, Colorfactory, Khoiba, The Ectasy Of Saint Theresa, PPU, Njorek, Gothard and lots of friends as well..

Other: The Velvet Underground, The Doors, La Tropa, Värttinä, Leonard Cohen, Angelo Badalamenti, Ennio Morricone, Sinéad O'Connor, Beth Gibbons, Djivan Gasparjan, Theodossii Spassov, Divna Ljubojevic
Sounds Like: "Peel slowly and listen!"

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Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

My lyrics (songs for new forming band, hope to add whole form soon):

Loops Of Evermore                        The Flying Elephant                                Through alley of death trees                  Walking through endless fortunewalk just empty dreams         ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:55:00 GMT