Cat No MAM1502

• Iva Bittová - Czech violinist, singer and composer - recognises no boundaries in music, and is one of the most significant and original personalities of contemporary Czech music. Her musical projects & recordings have won recognition on a world-wide scale, and she has staged successful concerts all over Europe, the United States and Japan.

• This album “Čikori” was the Winner of 'Best album of the Year’ in the Czech World music awards 2004 - and is now released in the UK for the first time. She is backed by many long-term musical partners : Vladimír Václavek - guitar , František Kučera – trumpet, Jaromír Honzák - double bass, Miloš Dvořáček - drums, percussion & Ivo Viktorin - sound engineer.

• She was born in 1958 into a musical family and she lives in a small village near Brno, in what was then Czechoslovakia. She studied acting, but soon turned to singing, winning many awards. Her style is fresh, expressive and original - combining elements of jazz and world music - with rich and colourful rhythms and sounds.