The Habitat Ensemble - The Habitat Ensemble

The debut album of Habitat Ensemble, a new musical collective led by musician Marius Houschyar.

The collective was founded deep in the south of the Czech Republic, on the border with Austria, in the middle of the idyllic hills and fields of a village called Maříž, where a summer school of outsiders and creatives has been meeting since the 1990s. Enriching each other through cross-cultural exchange, the summer school participants created a unique meeting of artistic expression and interdisciplinary research.

The Habitat Ensemble, which originally grew out of the idea of ​​channeling the unique energy of the community and its environment into a musical journey where each member contributes their own individual work, has become an exciting means of connection and co-creation over the summer of August 2022.

Be it musical experimentation, composition, poetry, song or dance, Habitat Ensemble, which began as a series of multidisciplinary workshops, has slowly evolved into a unique musical recording. The album serves to conjure up the unique nature, community, experiments surrounding the school and the collective's search for harmony across it all, both musically and spiritually.