Uz Jsme Doma, (pronounced oosh-smeh-dough-ma), is a progressive rock band originally from Teplice, Czech Republic.
The band’s approach to arrangements and style is unique in the world of rock.They bring the instruments and vocals in different directions within the samescales and keys to create a dense melodic atmosphere. In addition, theirrhythms often accent off-beats and half-beats, throwing the listener inunexpected directions. The music seems to be an exhausting juxtapositionbetween beauty and ugliness, as songs will frequently shift between modes tocreate tumultuous, powerful hooks. The band is also fond of shifts between timesignatures and the insertion of extra beats in the shaping of the mood of thesong. Their lyrics are considered as deep poetry.
The band collaborated very closely to The Residents,Miroslav Wanek was a musical director of their Freak Show and the band took apart of their live show. The singer of The Residents, Randy, and Uz jsme doma performed a show "Their Finest Flowers" in 2010.
Band tours frequently whole the world (more than 2100 shows in their 29 years longhistory), till now they visited almost 40 different countries, major part ofthem took USA (more than 600 shows in almost all US states), also Japan,Russia, France, Poland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc.
The band has, to date, released seven proper studio albums, two live albums, a best-of package and a DVD containing live footage and a documentary about the history of the band, which discusses its artistic significance and chronicalsits dozens of lineup changes in its 20 years career. There are tons ofcompilations all over the world as well.