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Pavel Fajt (born December 26, 1957 in Brno) is a [[:Category: Czech Republic|Czech]] avant-garde musician, drummer, music arranger and producer.

==Biography==
Born in Brno, Pavel Fajt's music explores a range of alternative music genres, including world music, art-rock, folk-rock and experimental electronic music.

He has been performing since his time studying at the Brno University of Technology, where he first was briefly in the music group Nucleus, and then also in the student group Ještě jsme se nedohodli. This was followed by occasional performances with folk musicians, the most famous of which being songwriter [[Václav Koubek]] and non-conformist folk and spoken word artist [[Iva Bittová]], with whom he first performed in a duo, then in a trio called Kolektiv. The trio then gave rise to the formation of [[Danube]], which included some of the most outstanding personalities of the Brno alternative scene in the late 80s and early 90s.

With Iva Bittová, he has performed at many concerts throughout Europe and overseas, and he was also the producer of several of her solo records. His collaboration with the Goose on a String Theater in Brno has also been happening since 1980, for which he created stage music for several performances. He is also the author of stage music for several Prague theater performances.

In 1990, together with Iva Bittová and others, he co-created a documentary film about guitarist Fred Frith's Step across the border, which won the Felix Award for Best Documentary the same year. In 1992, he recorded with Jim Meneses avant-garde musical improvisations on drums, which were released on the album "Songs for the drums" for two drum kits and two voices. On this album, the voices of both drummers were picked up by a microphone on their necks and were muted and then technically modified to be expressively equivalent to drums.

His solo performances began in 1992, where in addition to an extended drum set, he uses one or two acoustic rings - a metal electrophonic instrument with a circular shape with several strings connected to a special sound apparatus with distorting sound effects. In 1994, together with singer Anna Homier and Belgian musician Geert Waegeman, he recorded a CD entitled "Mcaronic sines and Corne de Vache".

His occasional collaboration with guitarist [[Mikoláš Chadima]] begun in 1994 through the band Transparent People, which released a CD of the same name in 1998. In 1995 he would return to melodic art-rock with the band Pluto, which would be active until 2001. During its existence the band released two albums, the first of which was awarded the "Yellow Submarine" independent critics prize.

In 1998, he began his collaboration with Stepanida Boris, a member of the Yakut National Theater known for its efforts to revive the so-called "Shamanic Siberian music". With singer Václav Kořínek (alias Wendy Zulu) from the group Zuluville he created the Ladakh project, which is a combination of percussion instruments along with shamanic singing, another trip to the preserve of world music.

He was instrumental in creating a unique music festival called the Drummers' Festival - a regular annual concert tour of various percussionists. From 2000 to 2001, he was a member of the music group The Danubians, which was an international music group combining elements of Eastern and Central European folklore with art-rock (a form of avant-garde folk-rock). Since 2001, he has also continued to perform solo with his own concert program called Drumtrek.

Pavel Fajt, together with Lubomír Holzer, is a member of the Moravian Brothers group. <sup>[1]</sup> This is a joint music project of Moravian musicians, where Moravian ballads and shamanic songs are heard.

== Discography ==
* Bittová & Fajt - Panton 1987
* Svatba - Rewiew records 1988
* Iva Bittová and the Danube - Panton 1989
* Rosol - Pavian Records 1991
* Songs of the Drums - Pavian Records 1995
* Macaronic sines - Lowiands 1995
* You must let go - Rachot / Béhémot 1996
* Pavel Fajt & Pluto - Indies Records 1996
* Cow Horn - Victo 1997
* Bittová & Fajt - Bonton 1997
* Pluto, Three - Indies Records 1998
* Transparent People - Black Point 1998
* The Danubians - Cuneiform Records 2000
* DrumTrek - Indies Records 2001
* Drumming Brew - Indies Happy Trail 2006
* Autopilote - 2008
* Anarcheus - Dokořán 2010 (appendix to Václav Cílek's book
* Archeus. A fragment of the joyous science of dwarves)

== External links (in Czech) ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203012133/http://pavelfajt.com/bio/ Curriculum vitae]
* https://pavelfajt.com/

== References ==
* [https://pavelfajt.com/moravsti-bratri/ Moravské bratři group website] [online]. [feeling. 2020-07-01]. Available online .

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''Text adapted from the Czech Wikipedia''
[[Category: Czech Profiles]]

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