Interview with Václavem Bartošem (FruFru)

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 Václav Bartoš is leader, singer, composer of the alternative rock band - FRUFRU. Indies scope released a new album - „Až přiletí tučňák“, When the Penguin Comes Flying,. Here is interview about it.

1. After three and a half years FruFru has a new album. How much has the band changed in the meantime?
Its expression has become freer, it is not bound with any undercutting limits and it has matured both in music and in thinking.

2. What about the personal aspect? Have you stopped the never-ending exchange of musicians?                                          
Well, it was just drummers, who kept coming and going, with the exception of bass about eight years ago. After the first album the pianist Honza Coufal left to judiciary. That's all. We concentrated on drummers. The eleventh drummer in eight years, that's maybe a world record. I am hoping for some peace now.
 
3. Once upon a time the band boasted with the subtitle “drumming squad with a rhythmical hummingbird”.  This is not true anymore, is it? What would be the present subtitle for FruFru?
Maybe “fresh highland music, hurtling through genres, holding nothing sacred”. I have also noticed that we are perceived as world music abroad (I don’t mean a Czech playing Balkan or African music), because they cannot classify us. It seems to have an original effect.

4. The title of the new album is When the Penguin Comes Flying. Is there any explanation? Why the penguin?
You can understand it as expectation of something improbable, futility of expectation, or as waiting for a hash dealer to arrive, or paraphrase of the good old “when hell freezes over”; it depends on everyone’s interpretation.

5. Is it as futile as waiting for Godot? It seems a different kind of waiting...
It is peaceful and patient waiting, which seems to pass into a feeling that we have lived to see and we only pretend to be waiting so that we need not express our joy of the end of waiting.

6.   Maybe your album is the arrival of the penguin?
That may be so.

7. In the preceding hard rock album “Nevěř tichu / Don’t Trust Silence” the critics spoke of “drive”. Do you think this new album can be spoken of as “mature”?
This is natural development; we have never stressed instrumental ability in the sense of shows and exhibitions, and this tendency continues as far as the use of silence and tone timing. In short, we are reducing spices and let the natural flavor of our songs come forward.

8. Are you the author of the album? Where do you find ideas?
It is a collective work, which originated as improvising, recorded as fragments of which we then composed the mosaic. As for the lyrics, I am utterly dazzled by the work of Kryštof Ewanče, as it suits me both in rhythm and in content and it can be phrased quite naturally.

9. You are preparing a videoclip for the song Já a já a já a já / Me and Me and Me and Me”. Can you tell us what it will be like?
The videoclip is made by Pavel Liška and Tomáš Matonoha and it is about expectation of a fragile homosexual, which is not to be fulfilled, so it is kind of bitter-sweet.

10. The bitter-sweetness can also be apparent in the recording. Is it the band’s poetics?
That is the most successful part. Kryštof Ewanče’s poetry with FruFru music joined like water with a school sponge and it sounds together like a penguin, snow and wind.





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