D.y.k. - CD

Vojtěch Dyk recorded his solo album D.Y.K. in New York. He surrounded himself with top musicians, led by Grammy winner Ondrej Pivec

The singer praises the fact that by recording he stepped out of his comfort zone and immersed himself in a world without boundaries. The first taste was the playful and danceable single Mr. Beat, inspired by Rowan Atkinson and the character Mr. Bean. Other singles followed, including the exceptional music video for Phone song.

The album was recorded entirely in New York in collaboration with Ondrej Pivec, who has a Grammy Award at home for his album with Gregory Porter. The acclaimed musician, who has lived in New York for the past ten years, also invited his band, the Kennedy Administration, into the recording process.

"I've been entertaining the idea of recording an album abroad for about nine years. I wanted to get out of the comfort zone of the Czech Republic, where I know almost all the people in the music industry, and move a little further into my own authorial heart, into the musical universe, into a world without borders. Thanks to Ondřej Pivec and the Kennedy Administration, I created my uncompromisingly free CD in New York," says Vojtěch Dyk, who for many years has been musically connected mainly with the Brno B-Side Band of bandleader Josef Buchta.

"When Vojta approached me some time ago with the idea that he would be interested in collaborating with me on a new project, I had no idea how extensive and artistically satisfying the work ahead of me was. The combination of Vojta's natural talent, the New York musicians and the environment I could provide has created, in my opinion, an exceptional and unusually high quality project by European standards, which has the potential to go down in musical history," adds Ondřej Pivec.

"I was thinking about what genre I was actually doing and I found that it was impossible to clearly define it. So I thought that if the record was going to be from me, it had to be diverse, which it was," comments Dyk on the album's diversity. Thanks to the members of the Kennedy Administration band, the album is scented with authentic influences of American culture, pop, jazz and soul, and many of the tracks are built on Hammond's keyboards, which are perfectly controlled by Ondřej Pivec.