About
My music career started in 1999, when, as a 19-year-old artist, I joined prestigious jazz combos, music sessions, and party bands, and I was working with highly acclaimed pop, rock, jazz, and funk musicians such as Filip Gondolan, Jazz Efteratt, and Infinity, to name a few.
As a young bass player, I gained so much music experience and technique quickly, performing with top-notch professional musicians and music producers. However, I felt that now was the time to move on even further, and I started to look for a band where I could express myself more as a composer and music producer.
I’ve entered the rock and metal music scene, and almost immediately I was contacted by Five O´Clock Tea, the highly acclaimed nu-metal band. One of our achievements was a performance in the final of the music competition Coca-Cola Pop Star. After a few years of touring and performing across Europe, I joined the legendary alternative metal-rock band Krucipusk.
We’ve recorded and published an album, Amen (2009), and in just three years' time, we’ve regularly performed at prestigious festivals such as Sonisphere and at Ozzfest 2010 alongside bands like Metallica, Soulfly, Korn, Ozzy Osbourne, etc. The heavy touring schedule consisted of 100+ shows a year.
Yamaha artist for more than seven years. As a professional bass player, I’ve been representing well-known music brands (Markbass, Mesa/Boogie, Ampeg, and Jim Dunlop, to name a few) at many European music conferences, events, and workshops.
As a session player, I’ve been touring with many artists and bands in the EU and UK and recording countless singles, EPs, and albums. Recent experiences include sessions at Assault & Battery, Dean Street Studios, The Qube, the festivals We Are Out Here and Dimensions with Maximum Joy, and Irish tours with Dirty Power. You can hear my bass lines on three tracks on the new Simply Red album Time, released in May 2023 (Just Like You, Let Your Hair Down, and Just Like You - Part 2).
In 2017, I co-founded Punt Guns. A meeting of minds and musical sensibilities that has forged a landscape of electronic rock, electronica, and pop with yearning anthems that seek to bring new life to the darkest corners of our existence. Finding an alliance with producers Andy Wright and Gavin Goldberg (Simple Minds, Jeff Beck, etc.), Punt Guns have forged an apocalyptic sci-fi love epic album that was released in the autumn of 2020.
I’ve played more than 1,000 live shows at clubs or festivals.
I used to be heavily involved in music gear reviews. I have tested hundreds of instruments, amps, cabinets, and effects (Muzikus, Music Store, or frontman.cz), given out many personal and professional online and magazine reviews and recommendations, and published five bass method books, which are part of worldwide distribution through Bassline Publishing.
My influences:
Muse, Royal Blood, QOTSA, Ghost B.C., NIN, The Prodigy, Tool, Infectious Grooves, Primus, Pantera, J.S. Bach, Alice in Chains, Living Colour, Led Zeppelin, RHCP, Skrillex, Jojo Mayer-Nerve, RATM, The Beatles, Deadmau5, Steven Wilson, Dream Theater, SOAD, Arctic Monkeys
"I believe in you, man!"
- Andy Wright - Producer (Jeff Beck, Simple Minds, ...)