Ondrej Zajac doesn’t practice. Neither does he play his guitar with as little as a hint of striking technical prowess. Despite this, he makes music with the confidence of a master instrumentalist who doesn’t let their chops get in the way. This is because Ondrej Zajac understands that the point of playing an instrument is to transcend it.
Such principles have been the source of pride for the idioms of experimental and free music, but these suffer from the chronic peddling of artistic narcissism. Ondrej Zajac works in the confines of these genres, but impressively avoids all their pitfalls. His music is almost pure content, as straight as a line, and so immediate and so fucking honest it leaves you wondering.
I Will Be Forgotten offers plenty of opportunities for such wondering, regardless of whether the composition is sixteen minutes or sixty seconds long. The structure of the whole thing, the appreciation of all properties of sound without indulgence in any of them, the playfulness and composure beyond it all, not even the beautiful sonic grain of the guitar itself, none of this does dwarf the most remarkable accomplishment of this record // its utter artistic integrity.
Recorded live at Divadlo 29 in Pardubice and co-produced and mixed by Václav Šafka, I Will Be Forgotten is the second solo release by Ondrej Zajac (Banausoi, Data Koroptev) and the 19th release by the sincere label Weltschmerzen.
credits
released July 15, 2022
all songs recorded live at Divadlo 29 in Pardubice.
co-produced and mixed by Václav Šafka.
mastered by Dominik Suchy.
cover photo by Barbora Girmanová.
cover design by Folding Cave.
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thanks to: Jára Tarnovski, Václav Šafka, Zdeněk Závodný, Jarin Horecký, Šárka Zahálková, Nikola Březinová, Federsel, Petr Vrba, Ondřej Ježek, Adam B. Donoval, Adela Donoval, Milan Kozák, Vojtěch Staněk, Lucia Kolesárová, Milan Ferenčík, Hrapko, Dominik/Tomáš/Matúš,
& Jakub Slováček
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the creation and release of this record have been supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, and the Statutory City of Pardubice and the Pardubice Region.
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