Describing the music of Iva Bittova to someone not familiar with it is like describing an abstract painting to a blind person. Iva Bittova, the Czech avant-garde violinist and singer, has synthesized the classic folk and gypsy music of the tiny Moravian villages where she grew up.
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Describing the music of Iva Bittova to someone not familiar with it is like describing an abstract painting to a blind person. Iva Bittova, the Czech avant-garde violinist and singer, has synthesized the classic folk and gypsy music of the tiny Moravian villages where she grew up.
“I say this is my own folk music,� Bittova says, “Some people say it’s alternative music, or avant-garde music, but it's my own folklore. I get my inspiration from nature, and from when I was a child and listened to a lot of folk music from the East, like Balkan, Romanian, and Hungarian. My father played classical music, so I also listened to that, but I especially like authentic folklore� - but really authentic.
Her vocal and instrumental technique is formidable, but what is most impressive is the imaginativeness of her excursions. When she plays a familiar piece, the Yiddish theater song that Joan Baez made famous as 'Dona, Dona,' it is so transmuted as to be virtually unrecognizable.
“It is very hard to have a category for this music, because it is not usual. Most of the inspiration is from nature, silence, and my children.�
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