Album Description

Every year right before the Easter – on Green Thursday, Good Friday and White Saturday – Czech boys form groups and walk through villages, rattling their rattles, ratchets and noisemakers. On Easter Monday they return to the streets, equipped with pussywillow twigs, they sing and recite Easter carols.

This year they didn’t.

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I got up early this Easter Monday. At 5:30 A.M. I went to the garden and started recording the sounds outside with my binaural microphones. I planned this almost a year in advance, hoping to record the carollers strolling the neighborhood. The only unknown back then was whether the kids would go from left to right or from right to lef... [Read more]