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Lesni zver (roughly translated as Sylvan Game) are an adventurous band from Brno (Czech Republic), playing an energetic mixture of nu-jazz, acoustic drum'n'bass and psychedelia.

Their compositions span from regular songs to purely improvised stuff, when they basically let the music spontaneously drive on in unintended directions, eventually ending up either in heavenly arcs of spiritual joy or in a roaring hell. "We do not perceive nu-jazz as a music necessarily connected with jazz in the historical sense of the word. It is more of a common ground, a starting point full of freedom and spontaneity, that is not limited by any definition of it as genre, and lets us wildly exploit our imagination."

The band got together in 2001 and have focused mainly on playing live, utilizing the concept of musical performance as a happening. The debut CD called simply Lesni zver was published in 2009 by Indies Scope Records. Lesni zver gigged various prestigious venues in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany; e. g. Jazz Goes to Town festival (Hradec Kralove 2005), Rock for People (Hradec Kralove 2009), New Jazz Days (Bratislava 2006) or Silent Friday (Stuttgart 2008), performing alongside with Peter Lipa, Al Jawalla or Cinematic Orchestra. The band also took part in multimedia projects of Federico Diaz and David Korinek, and created live alternate soundtrack for Alejandro Jodorowsky's masterpiece Santa Sangre.

free mp3: Gotcha

The band is:
Jiri Hradil - keyboards, flute
Martin Cech - drums and percussion
Milos Rejsek - vocals, delay, jaw harp, melodica, kaoss
Tomas Pavla or Marek Steyer - trumpet

Website: www.lesnizver.cz
www.myspace.com/lesnizver

Distributors:

Broken Silence (Germany, Swiss, Austria)

XMD (Netherlands, Belgium)

Discovery Records (U.K.)

Serpent (Poland)

AND

The Orchard (digital - the worldwide)