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published March 13, 2024

Dissolver

Rebolek

The year was 1997. Comet Hale-Bopp was hovering overhead. Strange world, strange times.

We lived together at that time: Me, Richard and Radka. Then Richard came by, grabbed my shoulders and started shaking me: " I had a strange dream, do you understand? We have to start a band Divnej sen, do you understand?"

I understood him, but my shoulders hurt, so I snapped out. He fumed.

In two weeks we had finished material for our first album. We have played several concerts in Brno. Then Fred came saying he'd like to release a new CD album, he got a producer (Honza Pokorný) and that he wants us to be on it.

Back then we were already called Weirddream, which is still Divnej sen. If I remember correctly, we sent Fred two or three songs (note by Fred — five!).

He customized them, which we didn’t like; changed names, which we refused, but he released them. They are still there today. And it’s great!

Old wounds have healed, and thanks to Dissolver, Richard and I can listen to our old songs, which would otherwise have been carried away by the river of time.

Fred

I remember experimenting with the OctaMED (64 channels tracker) and prepared several songs. Then I called Jirka Mošna, let him come to listen to it, he took his guitar and effects with him, I've popped in a few cold beers. This has been our "creative setting" for many years, full mix and guitars as a live improvisation.

The verses spoken by Radka Bednářová were written by Edgar Allan Poe.

I've created the cover art for Dissolver as a collage from leukemia scans that I have processed for medics. I worked at the Children's Hospital Brno at the time, a department of pathology, where Richard also came for a while later. That's why the album is ambiguously named Dissolver.

The storm that ends the whole album is a real summer storm recorded with a microphone that I put in the studio by the open window and went to sleep.

Jika Svítil, who recorded minor guitar takes for the song Squirrel, unfortunately, is no longer with us. Jirka is already Dissolved ✝.

The album was pressed in the Fermata Čelákovice in an edition of 550 copies and each copy was hand-numbered. The trip to Čelákovice was unforgettable. Stacking the boxes and numbering took long hours, a place for a possible autograph was also reserved on the CD.

I've adapted this text, which guys might not like, but they can reject it as much as possible.

Richard

I don’t remember anything... 😀

Jirka Mošna

Fred, who has always been Filip to me, and we originally knew each other as classmates from the university (SCI MUNI), at first we groped each other and only knew about each other that he makes electronic music and I'm a "live" guitarist. Our cooperation started around 1996 when he approached me that he would like some guitars for of his compositions. I wasn’t playing with anyone at the time, so I agreed. It was a new interesting experience for me, especially the recording studio and it taught me also how to play exactly in sync with the machine, which later came in handy many times in other studio work and concert performance.

The following year, I was approached that Fred wanted to record a solo record and if I would cooperate on it. My share consisted of several guitar parts, I don’t remember if they were used all of them in the end, I didn’t collaborate as an author or subsequently in any way in terms of production, that Fred was able to treat himself. The album was released in late 1997 and was christened in the Mýdlo club on Traubova street in Brno (note Fred: the second performance took place at the sci-fi meeting Dracon 97).

My collaboration with Filip continued later, he was my inspiration and a good advisor when building my own studio. Later we also recorded some tracks at my place. We have a number of those songs archived, unfortunately some have not survived to this day and disappeared in the abyss of digital history, but Dissolver is like a physical carrier proof that we weren’t completely lazy back then.