Kazda & Indigo String - The Music Of Led Zeppelin

Two years ago the idea was born of putting together a program using only a string quartet and bass guitar. I had thought about many different ways of doing this. I didn't want something with just my own compositions, and I was very used to arranging music, sometimes without much respect for the original. I preferred to pursue my own ideas rather than sticking closely to the original form. The clarity and simplicity of the riffs in the Led Zeppelin numbers we play on this CD are ideally suited to musical development. After all, these songs have already stood the test of time. This project was not simply about playing Led Zeppelin songs or using them as a basis to improvise as a jazz standard would do. What we did was convey what we considered to be the essence of these icons of rock music, the energy, the tension, the complexity but also their almost folk-like melancholy using the medium of string quartet and bass guitar. The songs serve as a starting point for our own music, for a music into which everything flows that contributed to the artists' own musical socialization. Jan Kazda