Lost by Michael Moravek

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

Tracklist

1.	He Maintains	4:51

2.	Guess I'd Get Along	4:56

3.	Who to Love	3:33

4.	Billie	4:56

5.	Black Bird	3:20

6.	Throwing My Hands Up High	6:17

7.	Don't Go	3:33

8.	My Dark Hiding Place	3:21

9.	Hank, King of the Street	3:48

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

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