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When in 2011 the organizers of the Pohoda festival managed to convince the well-known Bratislava band Le Payaco to perform together after almost six years of hiatus, it seemed at first like a rare memory of the good old days. However, the magic of a live concert in front of an enthusiastic crowd of twenty thousand fans who remained loyal to their “heartthrob” even after this long break impressed and as the band’s lead singer Tomas Sloboda says : “It turned out that it could work again. Our meetings later became more and more frequent. I believe and hope that it will bear some fruit.” Today we can say that his words have come true. That fruit is a new studio album called “Dnes je ten deň” (Today Is the Day).

Tomáš Sloboda, Martin Stempel and Juraj Vitéz have been working together on the new album for two years. As Juraj Vitéz says: “The album was a long and sometimes complicated process, but we are even more happy now that it is finished. It was often hard work. We met in the evenings in the rehearsal room and worked on the music and lyrics, sometimes until the early hours of the morning. We wanted our album to sound really top after ten years and that’s why we were properly demanding on ourselves and what we create. We felt that the bar was set high and we could not lower it. And here is Le Payaco, grown up and mature at its best.”

A total of nine songs comes from the creative work of all the band members, with Vlado Janček collaborating on the lyrics. As Tomáš Sloboda reveals, “I have been in intensive contact with Saténové Ruky (Satin Hands) for the last two years. Their debut album appealed to me also thanks to their excellent lyrics. So I asked their guitarist Vlado Janček if he would help me to write the lyrics of one of the songs. It worked and one song suddenly became several. The title track “Dnes je ten deň” (Today Is the Day) with a very light vision of a perfect summer has again lyrics by Juraj alone. We always cared a lot about the lyrics and I feel that we managed to record a light summer album. It’s about us and about you. About you and me. And that’s what I like about it.”

Tracklist

1. V júli
2. Každý chce niekoho mať
3. Ako ako
4. Chcel som letieť balónom
5. Kone
6. Čistá krása
7. Dnes je ten deň
8. Bozkávať a hrýzť
9. 7 niečo