First and foremost inspired by nature and the Slovak countryside – the murmur of small waters in the forest and the rustling of leaves in human hands. This is Sui Vesan, a Slovak singer, instrumentalist and composer characterized as ‘Dadajazz’ in the sphere of World music, presenting a life-affirming and positive message through voice and sound. Her music has a spiritual core, which is offered to any open-minded listener, which comes from an artist who has walked the road towards reaching her original voice for quite some time.

Sui Vesan’s past life and career have been marked by this search for true originality. As a child growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, she was obliged to sing the much-hated Russian repertoire of ideological songs in choirs. But when Sui was 14 years old, the chance to travel to Syria with her father opened up her life. The voices of the muezzins and the singing voices and sounds of the Arab world had changed her life. Although, it would take Sui many years to find her unique voice, fronting local bands as girl singer/flute player/guitarist, later retreating from public performance and becoming a wife, mother and teacher. During her eleven years of not singing a note in public, Sui finally came up with the courage to present her new voice. BBC radio presenter Charlie Gillet got a hold of her debut album “Sui” (2001) and was enamored with what he heard. Suí´s first album was included by the members of the Broadcasting Union (45 experts in World music from 20 countries) as a “new album” to the Top 20 World Music Charts Europe on BBC 3.

From there, her songs have reached the charts, invited by Charlie Gillet to BBC3 and opened the Jazz Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London 2002, participated at the ‘Women in /e/motion’ festival in Bremen, Germany and at the ‘European Nights’ festival in Strasbourg, France.

“Merging With The Brook”, her latest album, contains music of quite fascinating strangeness, presented with a Slavic timbre and featuring the multi-faceted rhythms of Eastern-European folk traditions. These are all fused with a very original and somewhat mysterious compositional and improvisational concept that is purely Sui Vesan. It’s equally playful and harsh, dressed in very Spartan arrangements featuring just voice, guitar, flute, kalimba and percussion.

Since January 2004, Suí has been accompanied by her husband Rado, guitarist and percussionist who, not only interprets her musical intentions to provide her with imaginative backing, but also actively contributes to Suí‘s creativity.

A highly idiosyncratic pairing of almost childish naivety with a very grown-up depth of emotion and life experience. Her music is filled with human strength, a quirky kind of humour, real passion and an exploratory sense of discovery, reaching beyond the tangible concreteness of language.

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