How Little We Dream out on Bivak Records April 10th
Singer Marta Kloučková and guitarist David Dorůžka will release the album How Little We Dream on April 10. Following a quiet and intimate ballad If You Could Love Me, their second single WILDFLOWER is freshly out, Kloučková & Dorůžka borrowed the Grammy-winning song from pop singer Billie Eilish. The choice indicates the dispersion of influences that can be felt on the new release.
In addition to the song by the popular singer, the album also features works by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter and even Bob Dylan. The recording will be released on April 10th and will be available both digitally and on LP. The second single WILDFLOWER is already available on streaming platforms, and a music video, directed by Oliver Beaujard, is also released.
Marta Kloučková & David Dorůžka - How Little We Dream
If the concept of a jazz vocalist and guitarist duo conjures up the majestic pairings of Fitzgerald and Pass, or more recently Aimée and Valeanu, Parlato and Loueke, or the stellar live stylings of Joy and Grasso, the debut offering by Kloučková and Dorůžka may be a rousing wake-up call.
Yes, the familiar touchstones are there – a rich vocal palette coupled with a sensitive stirring of strings – but more often than not, the songs take an impressionistic scenic route that owes more to the journey than the destination. One is left with an unshakeable feeling of jamais vu – these are songs at once known, but seen through a gauzy, hallucinogenic fug.
It is this dream logic that plays upon Joni’s airy, hypnotic ‘Dreamland’; the slinky, funky take on Paul Simon’s ‘50 Ways’; the light touch that brings Carmichael and Mercer’s timeless ‘How Little We Know’ slam up to date; the quicksilver beat poetry of Monk’s ‘In Walked Bud’; or the shifting sands of Dylan’s ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’ that closes the set.
Most oddly, however: one leads where the other follows – a symbiotic paradox that betrays the duo’s unostentatious generosity. When two such talents share a lucid vision, there is no jockeying for space. Dreamland is coming on, indeed.