Iva Bittová
Iva Bittová is a Czech violinist and singer, born in 1958 in Bruntál. She trained in drama at the Brno Conservatory and spent about ten years as an actress, appearing in Czech feature films, before turning back to music in the early 1980s with violin studies at the Janáček Academy in Brno. Her duo with percussionist Pavel Fajt made her name outside Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s. Bittová recorded Bittová + Fajt in 1985 with Fajt, then the percussionist of the rock group Dunaj, and their second album, Svatba, drew attention abroad.
Musicworks56 - Sound/Image (CD+magazine)
One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of the magazine. In this issue: Iva Bittová, R.I.P. Hayman, Stan Brakhage, interactive video, etc.
Bittová & Fajt (LP)
First edition of the beautiful first album with a very original combination of avant-rock/jazz/folk in RIO tradition by the Czech avantgarde duo, released by Panton in 1988.
Four Fold
Four Fold unites four singular musicians—Iva Bittová, Marilyn Crispell, Benedicte Maurseth, and David Rothenberg—in a chamber where jazz, improvisation, and modern composition intertwine. Voices and instruments curve and spar, yielding an album of subtle poetics and palpable communion whose articulated silences are as charged as its most explosive moments.
Songs of Tomorrow
Years later, revisiting this performance through the album still leaves me gasping in awe—she reads minds, she hypnotises, a celestial sprite blessed by the heavens. Her solid grounding in classical and folk music, extraordinary technique and control, boundless stage presence, and our own beautiful yet bittersweet memories all converge to create this timeless recording.
Time rewinds to a May evening in 2014, as the inaugural Tomorrow Music Festival unfolded. Czech musician Iva Bittová stood alon…
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Eviyan Live
Iva Bittová, Gyan Riley and Evan Ziporyn as Eviyan, live at Victoriaville on 16 May 2013: violin, voice and kalimba, acoustic guitar and clarinets in songs between Moravian folk, minimalism and chamber music.
Kolednice
Legendary east block vocalist. Here is 17 tracks of experimental child songs mixed with traditional folky style that are calm and relaxing. Beautiful voice as always.
Svatba
With voice, violin and percussion, this duo produces music with a thrilling intensity, suspense and drama. The musical basis is a mixture of the duo's interpretation of slovakian and romanian folk music, jazz and classical. They play with a freshness and enthusiasm that leaves the listener breathless.
Iva Bittovà j.h.
Iva Bittová has been the guest of many artists all over the world, but this compilation mostly explores her work with her Czech compatriots, including Ida Kelarová, Pavel Fajt and Pluto, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Krajinka and Vladimír Godár, as well as some film and theater music and one unique Gregorian chant experiment made expressly for this release. It's a wild range of emotions, techniques and sounds.
Fragments
Solo album by Iva Bittová (voice, violin, kalimba): twelve pieces titled Fragments I-XII, mostly her own. Recorded February 2012 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.