22/07/2009 Oren Marshall

"Composition and Improvisation exquisitely merge as these two young masters converse, creating dramatic musical landscapes of extraordinary colour and dynamic contrast. At once intense, primal and highly sophisticated, this is contemporary music at it's most inspiring best.
A visionary work made by great artists with a lot to say."

25/01/2009 Mark Dresser

Jiri Slavik is a gifted musician who happens to play bass, GREAT. He is pushing envelopes of rhythm, harmony, melody and timbre integration in the service to a compelling compositional imagination. "Repose' is the debut CD of Jiri Slavik's music with the fine pianist Fred Thomas who, together, are in sync with a clear multiple vision of sonic beauty.

22/01/2009 Chris Parker

"The textural range of the duo is impressive, and Slavik's arco playing in particular is exemplary; this is music requiring patience and application, but it is rich and original enough to reward both"

22/02/2008 John Fordham, the Guardian

”The audience had already been eased into receptivity for subtle nuances by the delicate double bass improvising of (...) Jiri Slavik”