The music as I like it...
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In the Box

It was like in the spy action movie. You find yourself in the middle of atomic bunker of communist era with mission to find the secret document and escape before time’s up and guardians catch you.

It was about 2 years back. We made our first escape game in the heart of Prague. And yes, we did it!!!

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Escape Game

You know it - or preferably not - it is late at night and you keep turning left & right in your bed. You simply can not sleep. You counted all those bloody sheep at least hundreds times and it doesn't help anyway.

I recently passed the same experience. And not only once.

Reading the Wikipedia did not help so I grab the iPad and played with GarageBand.

And the result is - Insomnia

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Insomnia

It looks like spring is getting here. It raises all around. You can smell it. You can feel it on your face. You can almost touch it...
It reminds me the walk in the wood around Chalet-à-Gobet last year in the period of Indian summer. This special reminiscence awakens my emotions. And emotions turns in acoustic guitar, flute and upright bass and finally all this ends in this song.

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Indian Summer

I keep experimenting. This time with kind of... what?
Classical music? Film music?
I tried to put piano as basis, smooth velvety oboe and agitated strings (both staccato and pizzicato) together and here we go...

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Triumphing

In year 2016 we made the successful ascent of Aconcagua (6,962 m).
It was good rock&roll. 
I still have in my mind the hard moments when we have been nailed down to ground on the place called Portezuelo del Viento evaluating if we still have a chance to keep going up.
All this memory turned into this kind of folk&jazz piece. I had good fun to make this music. As good as making this nice summit with good band of friends.
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Windy corner

Short surfing on the new waves of RnB
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On R&B Waves

I turned one more year of my life. For sure I'm getting older but it seems the spirit is not affected. I still wanna dance...
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Wanna Dance (Electro Funk)

Bit of romance....
Done in Apple GarageBand using Chill Live Loop Grid.
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Chilling Valentines

This is my hit for Swiss Music Awards. Or at least for Naomi Awards in category Outstandingly Bad Contribution to Music.
Or this is the outcome of experiment related to Mike Cohn’s article about “Six Agile Product Development Myths” (Myth #1: Isn’t Agile Just for Software Development?).
Anyway it doesn’t matter what it is. I had really good fun doing it.
Music and video are all done by iPhone (GarageBand with Rock Live Loop Grid and Clips), final compilation in Abode Elements, using Agile approach with spirit of “Think Big, Start Small, Learn Fast” and “Fail Fast, Fail Often, And Follow Your Passion”.
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It Rolls

Are you also a daydreamer?
Wiki says that daydream is a fantasy that a person has while awake.

Daydreaming is the stream of consciousness that detaches from current external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. This phenomenon is common in people's daily life shown by a large-scale study in which participants spend 47% of their waking time on average on daydreaming . There are various names of this phenomenon including mind wandering, fantasy, spontaneous thoughts, etc. Daydreaming is the term used by Jerome L. Singer whose research programs laid the foundation for nearly all the subsequent research in this area today. The list of terminologies assigned by researchers today puts challenges on identifying the common features of the phenomenon, in this case daydreaming, and on building collective work among researchers.

There are many types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists, however the characteristic that is common to all forms of daydreaming meets the criteria for mild dissociation. Also, the impacts of different types of daydreams are not identical. While some are disruptive and deleterious, others may be beneficial in some way.

Yes, I'm daydreamer. For this track I used acoustic guitar, oboe and clarinet, upright and supplement it with glockenspiel.

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Daydream

You can dedicate the song to your girlfriend, to your best memory, to your dog, to kids, to pets, to sky, to sun, to summer, to winter, to holidays, to bad feeling, to your wishes, to life event, to your country, to your favorite hero, to childhood… you name it.

Well so I dedicated this song to the bench. Yes, to the bench in south Bohemia city Cesky Krumlov. The bench situated on the border of river Vltava I saw in the middle of winter night and I wanted to spend few moments by sitting on it. And I did not find the path to reach it.

That view stays in my mind and I turned it into this song dedicated to that bench.

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The bench

OK, first of all - Yes, sorry, it's in Czech... And yes, you have to notice the punk is NOT dead. And especially Czech punk is not dead. 
This one is my bet for hit-parade VELKÁ SEDMA of https://www.radio1.cz/

However this song Chlupatý kolena (Hairy knees) has long story. The very first draft of few chord and basic melody crossed my mind the day after the boss of the boss of my boss announced the company’s decision to value more the price of share over the value of people and therefore the company decided to turn upside down life of my 450 colleagues. Collective dismissal.
That time the song's working name was simply - Angry.

But… time flies. Few weeks later I found myself with coffee on sunny terrace in the middle of summer. Me and my Czech friend. Let’s call her my-YouTube-channel-subscriber-#007.

Me not in very good mood, her in short skirt and in similar mood. And with not well shaved legs/knees. And that, despite the view wasn’t very funny, made us laughing like hell… That moment I said myself “damn company and damn bosses”… On the end they do the same as me – trying to do their best for their bosses and trying to deserve their wage and their yearly bonuses.

And so the original idea got twisted from Angry to something inspired by that moment making me laughing.

It took me some time to find courage and try to record the singing. Until today I sang only as kind of self-defense and so far it worked veeeery well. Hope this one will not kill you...

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Chlupatý kolena

When I was making "The bench" I was stating you can dedicate a song to plenty different things. Girlfriend, dog, kid, pet, sky, sun, summer, winter, holidays, feeling, wish, event, country, hero, childhood, bench etc.
And also to your best memory. And that's what I was trying with "Your best memory". However… it is not easy to say what’s my THE best memory. 
Each time I’m passing a good time I feel how the moment screams on me saying: “I will be forever your best memory!”.
Ye, right. One of many. And I feel glad to have them all.

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Your best memory

Freezing but sunny day around Schwarzsee (or Lac Noir if you prefer).
Easy going, simple and enjoyable day with family captured by acoustic guitar and bass in this easy listening song.
Enjoy your easy going moments!

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Frozen lake

Your life is what you are, or are you what your life is?
If I knew the answer to this question, I wouldn't go to the office every morning but giving the philosophy lessons on one of the great university and enjoying my doctorate.
For sure - the life is full of choices. It’s not always easy to make it…. What else to say.

I’ve to say big thanks to Alihossi for giving the great help with lyrics. 

It took me lot of time and energy to make this track. It was long process. I wasn’t able to record the singing and I was getting desperate. Really desperate. And at the moment the lyrics were recorded the song was too long. So I had to start cutting it. And result was even longer… At this stage I started to call it “BREXIT-song” as working nickname. It was long, no one sees the end and each step made the next even longer.

At the end I let it behind for few days… And when I came back all the “polishing” was done in one shot. Uffff, so it’s the story of Your life

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Your life

This simple song is about how people can hurt each other.
But it is also about how they can forgive each other.

It is about how each of us follows our own star but how it is always more enjoyable to share it with someone else.
And how it sometime takes time to realize it.

Or simply... It is about how this song needs a better singer :-D

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Northern star

When I started to work on "I pay" I prepared the chords, lyrics, trained the song and then, the moment I was about to start recording, my son came and asked for cosmic song.
Ye, all my inspiration for "I pay" was gone. And new inspiration settled in my head.

I remember I started to think about my career aspiration in his age. I was dreaming about to be astronaut, or pilot or garbage-man... My son is in astronaut phase.

It took me one evening to make him the song. And he immediately loved it so much that each time we sit in car he was asking for "cosmic one". It was top played song in the car for few weeks. I was proud he rated it between AC/CD and their "It's a long way to the top" (he called the noisy one) and Spirituál Kvintet "Beránek a vlk (Riu riu chiu)". 

Into the song I embedded the following original records:
- Discovery Go at Throttle up
- Apollo 11 Countdown
- Discovery Computers are in control
- Mercury 6 Zero-G
- Discovery Nice to be in orbit
- Apollo 11 Quindar Tests
- Apollo 11 One Small Step for Man
- Apollo 11 The eagle has Landed
- Columbia Welcome Home
- Sputnik Tones
- Cassini Saturn Radio Emissions

The cover photo was taken by my sister-in-law Monika.

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I wanna be in NASA

Money, money, money, it’s not funny… Being a father of two kids you pay, pay and pay. Especially when you live in one of the most expensive countries in the world. Each month when I consolidate the budget, each time I open an envelope with a new bill to pay, I feel that just a bit more of my hair is turning grey. It’s the same story every month…
And it gets even harder when hundreds of your colleagues are let go. And when you are one of them. That’s the moment when future gets unclear and foggy. And when, on the top of everything, your huge multinational multi-billion employer is playing with words and refuses to include one of your kids in your social benefit package. How sad.

BUT:  I have a family and a few good friends, the mountains and my music. That all helps me to keep going with a smile and a positive mindset.

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I pay

This kind of my therapy song. Yes, indeed it is….
Whatever you do, you always find around you people you can’t stand. Your colleague, teammate, your boss, waiter in your favorite coffee place… You name it.
It is not your intention but it simply doesn’t match and we can discuss if it is because you or them. It doesn’t matter and it is as it is.
So therefore I made my therapy song. It helps. Instead of making bad face or dark look on them, instead of repeating “oh my god, him/her again” I just sing the song in my head and I smiley as it keeps my good mood on.

Keep smiling... It really helps ;-)

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Can’t stand you (aka GPR)

After few bit sharper songs I'm here back with easy listening one. Kind of world music based on acoustic guitar, erhu and clarinet.

"Twenty" was lying for some time on my desk. Some weeks ago I made about first 1 minute and then I lost the inspiration. It was total lack of inspiration and I spent my attention with other tracks. But then suddenly, during one nice easy going summer evening, the inspiration was back and Twenty was tuned and done.

And what about name? Why 20? "Twenty" is just because it's 20th song I have made... It is kind of anniversary, isn't it?

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Twenty

Ladat, born Ladislav Tesar, is Litomerice (Czech republic) native, body and soul, who writes and composes his music in Chatel-St-Denis, Switzerland. Ladat is not a band in the true sense of the word, but rather a musical project that emerged in 2019 as an escape from reality, because things go better with music.

Ladat's musical odyssey defies conventional labels and freely blends elements of rock, folk, country, and jazz into a rich and genre-bending style that invites listeners to explore the diverse spectrum of influences that shape his emotional and diverse compositions.
As an experienced composer and lyricist, Ladat weaves stories that deeply resonate with audiences and offers a captivating and immersive musical experience, where each song is an expression of boundless passion, creativity, and an unapologetic celebration of musical diversity.

Since 2021, Ladat has been collaborating freely with the Slovenian A7 Recording Studio and musicians around guitarist and drummer Blaž Pavšič, such as Uroš Mohorič (guitar), Gregor Alič aka Hanson or Peter Beznec (bass), and singers Anton Premec, Kristina Jelić, Maja Štebih, Hana Pavšič or Oliver Neff aka Titanic Jack.