The impatient old woman with a bowl of gnocchi dumping onto the bed communicates through humour of an image rather than by relying on words from an archaic East Slovakian dialect. Not even the greatest Czech bard of gluttony Bohumil Hrabal would have described the vice more poetically and pertinently than her. …Joy from the title of the album of Zuzana Homolová is rather down-to-earth.
Likewise, Miloš Železňák, the multi-genre quitarist, feels comfortable and has no preconceptions to move fluidly across the boundaries of jazz, rock, Ruthenian folklore and blues…. Samo Smetana who is a folklorist in body and soul does not deny that Slovak folk songs can be rendered in a modern etno style.
Trio is an open, dynamic unit, which does not refuse to accept any influences and imposes no restrictions at all. If we compare her previous albums side by side, apart from the list of prestigious Czech and Slovak musicians collaborating in her projects, we can also see a proof of her changing approach to the folk song …. Her latest project with Samo Smetana and the guitarist Miloš Železňák is one of her most resounding. …On her album: Nothing Like the Joy, Zuzana Homolová sings briskly and with a detached yet observing eye. Zuzana Homolová plays and sings without prejudice If her previous album I Won´t Let Your Soul Pass Away was considered the best in her career, this new release is breathing down its neck. The band bears the name Z.H.Trio and apart from the singer is comprised of the guitar player Miloš Železňák, famous for projects in various genres (rock, blues, jazz) and the violist Samo Smetana, a long-standing fellow musician of Homolová´s who took over the role of a producer on this new album. Homolová had no external co-musicians in the studio but recorded her songs as a member of a firmly established band with whom she regularly plays concerts. In this respect, the new album sounds different. …All of Homolova´s previous albums bear the traces of distinguished arrangers and producers, such as Vladimír Merta, Jiří Stivín, Vlasta Redl or Daniel Salontay from the avant-gard duet Longital in Bratislava. The trio of singer Zuzana Homolová has for several decades been well-known for her arrangements of Slovak folk ballads, In their music, and on their most recent album, they blur the artificial lines between folk, world music, chanson and renaissance music in an innovative, strikingly minimalist way. Their music bridges centuries and connects the seemingly unconnectable, discovering the jewels of forgotten folk culture and presenting them in the new light of contemporary music. The group balances between various genres and proceeds with untraditional renditions of folk ballads.
While searching for the very fundamentals of the human existence, for features lurking from the subconscious of the human mind, they emphasise a concise form of the songs and stories of the past. The cooperation of musicians resulted in further unanticipated dimensions. Trojka Zuzany Homolovej – Zuzana Homolová Trio consists of her long-standing sideman Samo Smetana playing the violin and a multi-genre guitarist Miloš Železňák, well-known for his jazz, blues and rock projects. In creating her albums she has cooperated with several distinguished Czech and Slovak musicians such as Vladimír Merta, Jan Hrubý, Jiří Stivín Vlasta Redl, Daniel Salontay, Samo Smetana and others. As her albums are not released on a regular basis, every new release is welcomed as an extraordinary event. It is no wonder, that her name has become synonymous with the genre throughout Slovakia. For years, Zuzana Homolová has been devoting her energy to creating specific renditions of folk ballads.
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