Three years after the previous album "Za vodou" (Beyond Water) (2022), which marked the band’s comeback after 24 years, the new album is released. "Mňau" includes eight new songs created in collaboration with singer Jana Vébrová. Her last solo album "Kameny ze dna" (2023) received favorable reviews and a pre-nomination for the Anděl Awards, just like the Dunaj’s album "Za vodou" a year earlier. The eight new songs on the album "Mňau" are signed by all members of the Dunaj band, namely Vladimír Václavek, Josef Ostřanský and Pavel Koudelka, together with Jana Vébrová. Half of the lyrics on the new album are by Jana Vébrová, who invited poet and writer Radek Malý to collaborate with her. One text has been provided by Malý himself, two others were penned by Karel David, Dunaj’s long-term lyricist and collaborator, another one is by Vladimír Václavek. 

The album "Mňau" follows up on the band’s previous collaboration with producer Petr Ostrouchov and the Animal Music label. The album was recorded and mixed on an analogue tape. This is how the producer Petr Ostrouchov describes the process: “Lately, I have been gravitating back to the old approaches where the entire band, and especially a well-oiled machine like Dunaj, cand come together in one place and record the album on the spot, without any help from modern technologies, which means that we get the luxurious opportunity to work with analogue tape recorder. What I also like about this process, is the warmth and the inevitable level of imperfection, which can create a lovely tension, something that is often missing from over-produced recordings.”

For four decades, Dunaj has been considered a major presence on the Czech musical scene and for many artists and listeners of various generations, their songs have been iconic. The band’s line-up today includes Vladimír Václavek, Josef Ostřanský and Pavel Koudelka, and vocalist Jana Vébrová. Their album "Za vodou" (2022) was Dunaj’s first recording in 24 years, since the untimely death of frontman Jiří Kolšovský in 1998. It marked a new start for the band, and brought it back on stage and into playlists, and forward into the 21stcentury.  The album "Mňau" is another milestone on the path of Dunaj.