Music video for Mantra

Story:

Within 48 hours of moving into our flat in native Zizkov in Prague, I insisted on checking out a local club. It being Sunday expectations were low as we entered the tunnel-like Komotovka nightclub and sat down. I had finally scored on a, then famous boat on the vltava river, but, noticing others enjoying a smoke, I started complaining that I had left mine at home and really we should go…Then the music began. Four long-haired people had entered the small scene. Surrounded by clusters of incents and illuminated by only a few stage spots, they had now gathered in a circle and were playing music – MUSIC -  whose beauty of commitment, of total control but with maximum improvisation, made me leave - in fact - run back home to get my gear. Within half an hour I was back and now able to fully contain the vibrations that this band, Mantra, produced. It was phenomenal.

During one break I sat down and talked to the main man of the enterprise, Jurek, a man whose shinning beauty cannot be expressed within the confines of this webpage. I have used Mantra´s music as much as possible since then and there can be no doubt that Jurek - who also created most of the soundtrack for Mit Out Sound – is, and always will be, a truly rewarding artist to know. His work, lifestyle and personality opened my eyes to a truly alternative, decidedly circular view of life and of events in it. Some people just impact on your life and become instrumental to the way in which you see things.

The track Song About Nothing - of course, so called because a Dutch guy went back with the band after a gig and recorded the track, improvising the lyrics which nobody could subsequently make out, and so hence the name…