
24/11/2019
ALBUM RELEASE 10/10/2025. PREORDER NOW!
The album 24/11/2019 is a live recording of the concert launch of Vladimír Mišík's album Jednou tě potkám (I Will Meet You One Day), which took place in November 2019 at the Archa Theatre. It was the only concert of Vladimír Mišík with the band Blue Shadows, with whom he recorded this album. Blue Shadows – guitarists Josef Štěpánek and Petr Ostrouchov, drummer Martin Novák and bassist Matěj Belko – were accompanied at the concert by several current and former members of the band Etc. (Pavel Skála, Vladimír Pavlíček, Olin Nejezchleba) and other guests (pianist Martin Brunner and the brass section led by saxophonist Jakub Doležal). The concert had a great atmosphere and was warmly received by the audience and critics. The album Jednou tě potkám later won six Czech Music Adademy Awards and was followed by two more studio recordings created in collaboration with the producer Petr Ostrouchov and Blue Shadows (Noční obraz in 2021, Vteřiny, měsíce a roky in 2024).
The concert featured both new songs and a selection from Mišík's traditional repertoire, which the audience could hear for the first time in a different sound than they knew from regular concerts. Vladimír Mišík himself, then riding the wave of the unexpected success of the album Jednou tě potkám, sang in excellent form, unaware that due to health complications and the approaching Covid-19 pandemic, he would only have a few more concerts to go (he last performed in October 2020).
"Petr came to see me this year after my birthday, took out a great fifteen-year-old Bowmore whiskey from his bag, and after a while of talking and drinking, he smiled mysteriously, said that he had one more surprise and that I should put on my headphones. I must admit my jaw dropped as I was listening to the of the concert – the sound, the musicians' performances, the interesting arrangements, the atmosphere, I was really excited," says Vladimír Mišík and adds: "I have always enjoyed concerts immensely, and when the audience rewarded our efforts with applause, we found ourselves on stage a bit like in paradise. I am extremely grateful for these rare moments."
BLUE SHADOWS
Josef Štěpánek – electric guitar, baryton electric guitar, pedal steel
Petr Ostrouchov – acoustic guitar, electric resophonic guitar, mandolin, voice, brass section arrangement
Matěj Belko – bass guitar
Martin Novák – drums, voice
GUESTS
Pavel Skála – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Martin Brunner – keys
Vladimír Pavlíček – electric violin
Olin Nejezchleba – electric cello, tamburin, voice
Jakub Doležal – tenor saxophone
Jaroslav Kohoutek – pipe
Filip Jiskra – trombone
Album producer (2025): Petr Ostrouchov
Concert producer (2019): Šimon Kotek
Concert recording: Tomáš Jakl & František Kliment, Archa Theater Prague, 24/11/2019
Mix: Milan Cimfe & Petr Ostrouchov, Sono Records, April 2025
Mastering: Darius van Helfteren, Amsterdam Mastering, July 2025
Master for vinyl: Miles Showell, Abbey Road, August 2025
Cover design © Karel Haloun (3. dílna) & Aleš Najbrt (Studio Najbrt), 2025
Photo © Zuzka Bönisch, 2019
LP production coordination: Ivan Prokop
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