A new single with a music video heralds the debut album Místa/Krajiny to be released on April 17
Actress, singer, and presenter Tereza Richtrová releases a new single, Z hory. The song, inspired by Moravian folklore and folk poetics, is built on a simple, almost archetypal text about the search for love, which, in the imagery of the video, confronts the contemporary city. The music video was directed by Matúš Szalontay and follows the clash of a fragile personal theme with an environment that is not naturally welcoming to it.
Artist: Tereza Richtrová
Title: Z hory
Release date: 27.03.2026
Label: Indies Scope
Multilink: https://orcd.co/z_hory
Music video for Z hory: https://youtu.be/zT8VmE759aQ
Somewhat paradoxically, the video was filmed in Prague 6 – with a touch of exaggeration, it creates an image of a Moravian woman wandering in Bohemia. “The video for a song inspired by Moravian folklore is about searching for something very abstract and fragile in a place where such things are difficult, if not impossible, to find. We also wanted to bring humor into the video, not just excessive drama,” says Tereza Richtrová, who collaborated on the shoot with talented FAMU student Matúš Szalontay.
The video was shot over the course of a single day in the immediate vicinity of her home. “I rode trains, went on escalators, crushed berries, gathered wood, and then ran around Ladronka with it, only to get rid of it again. We wanted to use the contrast between the city and nature – both pure nature and urban ‘wilderness’, places that nature quietly takes back,” she adds.
The track Z hory is among those on the album that come closest to the form of a folk song, through deliberately simple language and structure. “It is essentially an eternal question: where will I find love, and will I recognize it when it passes by me? The text is intentionally plain, almost like a folk song. But the search itself is entirely contemporary,” she says.
The album Místa/Krajiny is Tereza Richtrová’s authorial debut and, at the same time, a time-lapse spanning more than twenty years – the oldest and newest texts are separated by two decades. The songs are not arranged chronologically, but are connected by the theme of place as a space of memory, relationships, and decisions. Southern Moravia, the Dyje River, Pálava, Haná, and the Prague district of Libeň form a map of landscapes that have shaped the artist.
The recording was created gradually in several phases – from initial meetings with Martin Kyšperský in Brno and Prague, through recording the foundations at a cottage in the Podyjí region, to final vocals in his studio. “The moment when a melody and words turn into a song with mood and form was always something extraordinary – great joy, pure creation,” says Tereza Richtrová. Kyšperský is the co-author of the music and the arranger, while the final mix was done by Broněk Šmid. Several distinctive musicians from across the scene contributed to the album, including Martina Trchová, Prune, Ondřej Kyas, Jiří Habarta, Josef Klíč, Martin Novák, Christopher Strandh, David Liber, Radim Hanousek, and Michal Grombiřík.
Individual songs capture specific situations as well as inner states – from everyday life and gratitude in Kouzlo malých věcí, through painful relationships in Smutná, to a return to the landscape of first love in Karpatská. Z hory stands in this map as a simple, almost folk-like song about the search for love. Alongside this, there are also images of travel, inner conflict, and returns – for example, in the songs Boží muka and Z kruhu – as well as the experience of urban alienation in the song Libeň. The songs move between concrete memory and more general expression – between a personal story and a landscape that transcends it.
The album Místa/Krajiny will be released on April 17, digitally and on vinyl, by Indies Scope, and will contain 13 tracks. The launch will take place on June 18 at the Kaštan club in Prague. The release is preceded by four singles – the current Z hory, February’s Karpatská, and last year’s Kouzlo malých věcí and Smutná.
Bio
Tereza Richtrová (born 1982 in Brno) has been involved in music since the age of seven. She studied classical singing under Irena Vašíčková-Pollini and graduated with a repertoire that included songs and opera (Haydn, Bach, Rossini, Schubert, Dvořák), and toured the United States with a school early music orchestra. At the same time, she was involved in theatre at the Dům divadla Husa na provázku studio and co-founded the Brno folk-punk band Terrariot. She studied drama acting at JAMU, worked in theatre companies in Olomouc, Ostrava, and Brno, and hosted the Czech Television morning show Dobré ráno for five years. She now lives in Prague as a freelance actress and collaborates with Czech and international film and television productions. With her debut Místa/Krajiny, she presents herself as an author for the first time, combining the poetics of folk song with a personal reflection on landscape, relationships, and the home search.
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