“This song and video are of value to us, because everything is real there,” says singer and guitarist Mirai Navrátil, alongside whom Ewa Farna, Kateřina Marie Tichá and the band Bandjeez appeared in the video. “I’ll be happy for people to play David’s music and read his poems. I think they are among the people young people should learn about in schools. “
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Navrátil always spoke of David as his older brother and supervisor, whom he liked to turn to. In addition to music, they were also connected by their native Frýdek-Místek, where both artists lived.
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“I think that music crossed our paths some fifteen years ago, when I first played at the Frýdek-Místek festival Sweetsenfest,” recalls Navrátil about meeting Stypka. “David was unique to me with the same attributes as most people. Charisma, talent, generosity. “
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The song Lítej was created in collaboration with composer Jenda Vávra, and Ondřej Fiedler took care of the production, as with the whole album. “Jenda Vávra and I had a lot of sketches written down. Basically, I knew right away that one of those rough shots was supposed to get this story. Having strong emotions is good for writing, emptiness is difficult to transfer to paper. Even if sometimes emptiness is a strong negative emotion, “Mirai explains the origin of the song.
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The story of the video, in which fragments of videos from Stypek’s private archives appear, takes place in one of Prague’s bars. The choice of place according to Navrátil refers to the type of environment in which they met Stypka and in which he used to like. Everyone who appears in the film belongs to David Stypka’s loved ones.
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“There is a band Bandjeez with Káťa Tichá and Jindra Polák from the group Jelen, with whom he has toured in the past. You will see Ewa Farna, with whom he has his biggest hit, his wife, sound engineer Cuba and us, the band Mirai. I think we were both happy about our success, because somehow we conquered the republic together from Frýdek-Místek. In 2017, we won the Anděl Award together. David for the performer, we for the discovery, “says Navrátil and adds that the song and the video clip Lítej is of particular value to everyone, because everything is real there.
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