Vladimír Václavek – the start of his musical carreer is connected with Iva Bittova, Pavel Fajt, Jiří Kolšovský and Josef Ostřanský, whom he met in the band Dunaj.
At that time he played the bass guitar which he later changed for the guitar. Since the mid-nineties he has played in many different groups, such as E and Domácí lékař and in 1994 he released his first solo album Jsem hlína, jsem strom, jsem stroj /I am the Soil, I am the Tree, I am the Machine/. At around that time
he founded a Moravian-Japanese-French group called Rale with which he recorded three successful albums inspired by the cultures of several continents containing rustle of six
languages. The album Twilight recieved an award from the Czech Musical Academy „Anděl“ /Angel/. Apart from participating simultaneously in various other groups, such as the Czech-German band Klar, he participated on the project Arminius with Ferdinand Richard, worked together with the Japanese-French-Czech modern dance ensemble Kublai Khan Investigation, produced Deep Sweden’s first CD, made soundtrack to the movies Eternity starts here and
Čarodějka /The Witch/ and released his solo CDs Písně nepísně /Songs Non-songs/ and Ingwe, which he plays at concerts as his solo performance. He toured the whole Europe, USA, Canada, Africa, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Madagaskar, Mauritius and the Republic of Iceland. In 1997 he recorded the unforgetable double album Bílé inferno together with Iva Bittová (the album won the award Žlutá ponorka /The Yellow Submarine/ from the musical critics in 1997 and was awarded the Golden disc from the label Indies Records in July 2004). Together with the guest artists from
this album and Iva Bittová he later founded almost jazz group Čikori. Here he met Miloš Dvořáček and they continued together in the band VRM and eventually they gave rise to their own duo, which brought a new programme and the CD „Život je pulsující píseň“… /„Life is a pulsating song“./