Pavel Fajt (born in Brno 1957) moves between world music, art-rock, folk-rock and experimental music, among his most successful is the collaboration in 80ies and early 90ies with Iva Bittová. In 1990 he appeared with Iva Bittová in the famous documentary tribute to Fred Frith, Step Across the Border by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.
In 1992 Fajt performed in Plasy during the first Hermit festival with Fred Frith. In 1992 he also met and started to perform with the American percussionist Jim Menesesand started his solo performance for the altered drum set drumtrek. In 1994, he formed a trio together with Anna Homler and Geert Waegeman (Macaronic Sines and Corne de Vache) and performed with Rajesh Mehta. In 1995 collaborated with Michael Delia.
Jim Meneses (1957, Philadelphia, US) a percussionist / composer. Since 1980 he has been active in the field of new music, and has worked in both the US and in Europe during this time. He has toured and recorded with a number of international ensembles as composer and performer. He is also known as an improvisor, and has worked with many of the established players in Europe and in the US. He has consistently been involved with projects which push the boundaries between rock and pop music and the avantgarde.He has toured in Europe extensively since 1985, and has worked (before and after the political changes) in Eastern European countries such as Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Russia and Lithuania.