Tomas Kocko & Orchestr

Tomás Kocko & Orchestr give us another reason to believe that the cultural legacy of our ancestors is worthy of further cultivation and shouldn't just be closed up in the museums. The world is not too interested whether and how we play jazz, for example, but the world is interested to know who we are. We find answers to this question in the legacy of the past generations, in folklore. Just as L. Janáek found these answers and Moravian folk music became music of the world through his work, so too the music of Tomás Kocko confirms the idea that it is worth being from somewhere without feeling ashamed of it.

The album Do tanca! contains 11 songs, variations and modifications of Moravian folk dances and original pieces by T. Kocko inspired by folk dances or folk songs. He used both traditional instruments — cymbalo, grumle, violin, contrabass, kontry, gajdy, and instruments used in other music genres, such as acoustic guitars, djembe and small percussions played by many good musicians under the name of Orchestr. Although the final music form does not avoid touches with other genres, it still is an essentially Moravian music. —Courtesy Calabash Music