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Cechomor is having a concert on December 22th at midnight at Vinohrady Theater (N�m?st� M�ru 7, Praha 2). Cechomor writes and performs traditional Czech songs arranged in modern style. Started in 1988, Cechomor got famous a few years ago after the release of the album “Promeny/Change.”

This album is available available in many Czech music shops for 200 to 300 CZK.

English version

Czech version

[Via abcprague, Cechomor site]

The year’s best musical Indie film strives to answer the ultimate question pondered by many of us:  “How many time you meet the right one in your life?”
“He fixes her vacuum cleaner (his day job is working in his father�s repair shop) and makes a half-hearted, bluntly rejected pass. But while there is an evident spark of attraction between them � Ms. Irglova�s teasing directness works beautifully with Mr. Hansard�s shuffling sincerity � �Once� is far from a conventional love story. It is, instead, the story of a creative partnership that develops by chance and that involves a deeper, riskier bond than mere sex ever could.”
Glen Hansard, the main singer/actor who plays himself, has a Czech friend whose daughter, Market Irgovlova, plays the young Czech immigrant in the movie. They first met when she was only a 12 years old kid who played piano to accompany his songs. One of her many questions to him during this period that people should have written songs based on their own experiences was adapted into the film’s story plot as well.

“Once” was shot under two weeks with a budget of $160,000 and has racks over 10 millions as of date and featured in commercial cinemas worldwide.

Movie Soundtrack
“Falling Slowly” - He strums the guitar, she plays the piano, and both sing this song during lunch time at a piano shop which is the only time and the only place she can play on the piano.

“If you want me” - Late at night, dressed in her pijama and bunny slippers the girl walks to a neighborhood convenient store to buy batteries for the CD player he gave her so that she could listen and write the lyrics for a song he thought too romantic for his taste. Her frail voice resonates from streets after streets, passing figures to figures.

“When your mind made up” - In this movie’s climax, he finally gathers a made-shift band and records his first demo at a music studio.

[Review from NYT]