We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Lost

by Michael Moravek

supported by
LX.T
LX.T thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Lost via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      €20 EUR or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    paper gatefold with booklet

    Includes unlimited streaming of Lost via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      €12 EUR or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 4 Michael Moravek releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Dream, Lost, November, and In Transit (Is What We Are). , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €21 EUR or more (25% OFF)

     

1.
He Maintains 04:50
info
buy track
2.
Guess I'd Get Along 04:56
info
buy track
3.
Who to Love 03:33
info
buy track
4.
Billie 04:56
info
buy track
5.
Black Bird 03:19
info
buy track
6.
Throwing My Hands Up High 06:17
info
buy track
7.
Don't Go 03:32
info
buy track
8.
My Dark Hiding Place 03:20
info
buy track
9.
Hank, King of the Street 03:48
info
buy track

about

For the new album ‘Lost’, released in 2022 and the first part of a dilogy (the second album will follow in winter 2022), Moravek also drew inspiration from literature and linked his own themes to it. He cites Bernard Malamud, Mark Twain, Antonio Tabucchi, Billie Holiday, Julius Fučik, John Connolly and the Bible as sources of inspiration for the songs at hand, as well as people, places and times that are lost.
In his songs Michael Moravek combines literature with his own experiences of uprooting. His lyrics are poetic, sometimes political. With his Electric Traveling Show, he combines the skills of jazz musicians with the curiosity for exciting interplay.

‘I had a permeable, percussive album in mind. Dreamlike floating, warm and with a lot of space', says Moravek. About his songs, he says they are good when they are genuine and serious and not written for the wrong reasons. They should have the ability to clear the soul and enable listeners to detach from the here and now. ‘A song is good when it pours imagination into images, and it grooves while doing it!’

Press:
"Together with his splendid band Electric Traveling Show Michael Moravek releases an impressive new album." - Ulrich Grunert, SCHALL Magazin
"With a clear emphasis on lyrical sophistication, Moravek creates an album that fills the term singer/songwriter with life." - Andreas Kohl, MINT
"Michael's music is beautiful. Hope you dig it too." - Mike Scott, The Waterboys (via Twitter)
" Rarely have I experienced that the expressiveness of one, no, of nine songs is so inseparable from the expressiveness and emotion of the music recorded." - Philipp Riedinger, Vinyl-Keks.eu
" Wonderfully coherent staged songs." - YEAH!
" Michael Moravek gives us the best album of the year - so far." - der neue Tag/Oberpfälzischer Kurier
" Already one of the best Americana albums of the year!" - Thomas Waldherr, country.de
"A wonderful album." - Jochen Stöckle, SWR1 (Musikclub Deutschland)
"Highly recommeded." Bianca Schwarz, Hessischer Rundfunk Kultur
"... hits straight to the heart and soul.." - Simon-Dominik Otte, blueprint-fanzine
" True poetry and never ostentatious melodiousness." - Günter Ramsauer; Truth & Lies/Roadtracks
" Singer-songwriter-Americana of noble quality." - Gérard Otremba, Sounds & Books
" Wonderful images of a lyrical-musical exhibition." - Wolfram Frommlet, Schwäbische Zeitung
" Moravek proves once again with his band Electric Traveling Show how much all these literary and musical inspirations congenially flow together in a very own sound." - kulturnews.de
" An enchanting album that takes you on a dreamy journey." - Noge, Plattenzimmer
" With the power of the heart, Moravek has created an intimate and fragile piece of music history. It resurrects the spirit of the 70s in a new guise." - Doc Virus
" Michael Moravek knows a lot about longing hearts in difficult times - a relational, heartfelt and thoughtful album .." - Märkische Allgemeine
"Michael knows we are all walking alone together and though our paths may be different and far apart his voice and music are like a warm whisper in the ear from a dear friend willing us on into another blue sunrise where everything and anything is possible if we’re only brave enough to jump in and reach out." - Sean Hiboy, Songwriter

credits

released May 6, 2022

The album was recorded and mixed by Thomas Fuchs on stage at the Ravensburg Theater during the first Lockdown and at the Video- und Soundatelier Wetzisreute. It was mastered by Brian Leach at Joyride Studio in Chicago, Illinois.

In addition to his backing band Electric Traveling Show, consisting mostly of jazz musicians, he has gathered musicians from St. Louis, Prague, Feldkirch, Stuttgart and Ulm:

Electric Traveling Show: William Widmann (drums, percussion, bass), William Bruce Kollmar (bass), Ayu Requena Fuentes (organ, electric piano, trumpet), Andrej Polanský (electr. viola, mandolin).

Guest musicians: Troy Brenningmeyer (lap steel), Peter Schwaderer (oboe, English horn), Herbert Walser (trumpet), Bastian Brugger (saxophone), Wibke Schaller (background vocal)

photography: Michal Moravek

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Michael Moravek image

Michael Moravek

Michael Moravek's debut "In Transit (Is What We Are)" features the Planeausters songwriter, singer and guitarist following his own path. His second solo album 'November' (2020, released just before the pandemia hit Europe) was originally written for a play based on Melville's Moby Dick. Recorded at Theater Ravensburg it was mastered by Grammy winner Brian Leach at Joyride Studio in Chicago. ... more

contact / help

Contact Michael Moravek

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Michael Moravek, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now