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RIP K. Gott

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Maybe not musical, but Czech through and through.

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Josef is kind of the closest thing CZ has had to an international pop heartthrob.

Mikolas Josef’s performance of “Lie To Me” at his first ever concert last week. 

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Ida Kelarová, née Ida Bittová (10 February, 1956 Bruntál) is a Czech-Roma singer, musician, and choirmaster, sister of singer and actress Iva Bittová.

She is from a bi-racial family - father Koloman Bitto was a well-known Roma musician, originally from southern Slovakia; mother Lidmila, a kindergarten teacher, came from Slovakia. She spent her childhood in Vrbno pod Pradědem, Prešov and Horní Saliba. She studied at the School of Music in Opava and at the Janáček Conservatory in Brno (she studied piano and cello). Between 1975 and 1982, she acted as an actress and singer at the Theater on a String in Brno. In 1982, she moved to Wales with her husband. In 1985 she went to Denmark, where she started to perform and teach Roma songs. Later she worked in Norway and again in Wales. In 1995 she returned to the Czech Republic. She founded the International School for the Human Voice in Bystré in the Czech-Moravian Highlands. He organizes international workshops, multi-ethnic projects, Gypsy Celebration Roma Festival, and establishes choirs in various countries with the repertoire of Roma songs. 

More here (in Czech)…

Her Romany children’s choir Čhavorenge, established 10 years ago, tours the country and cooperates with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. But above all it has given dozens of Romany children a glimpse of a better life and the ambition to make the most of their talents. Chavorenge’s debut album Hej Romale, was recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018.

More on Čhavorenge here…

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This 100-member choir of young Roma singers, Čhavorenge (translated from Romani as "For the children"), was founded by Ida Kelarová, the members being children selected from gifted and talented Roma children and youth and participants of the Performing Arts camps held by civil association MIRET. The choir focuses on traditional Romani music. The repertoire is built on songs written by the Romani composer Desideria Dužda who accompanies the choir together with professional musicians during concerts and performances.

Read more here...

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New building with two venues, skate park, vegan cafe with most hilariously 90s hardcore jukebox in Smichov.

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Ctirad Kohoutek  was a contemporary Czech composer, music theorist, and pedagogue, part of Brno’s “Group A,’ one of the first electronic music groups in the country

From Mark Morris’s Guide to Twentieth Century Composers:

Kohoutek  published a survey of modern western European musical techniques  in 1962. He employed a free tonality in the orchestral Velký přelom (The Great Revolution, 1960), and serialism to a children's work (Od jara do zimy [From Spring  to Winter]) in the same year, and his interest in children's                  music led to the publication of his ideas on the application of modern musical methods to the genre in 1966. At the same  time, he was developing his own methods of work, which he calls  `project music composition', and which includes the pre-planning  by graph of the formal structure, dynamics, and tone-colours, before any purely musical ideas or realisations. Memento               (1967) for wind and percussion utilized this method, which he  has since increasingly applied to large-scale orchestral pieces,  culminating in the three-part Slavnosti světla (Festivalsof Light, 1974-1975). This rather quirky piece, with an  ideological base in revolutionary songs sifted through modern   techniques, is full of interesting ideas, orchestral textures and bold effective colours that rescue moments of banality.

Read more: http://www.musicweb-international.com/Mark_Morris/Czech_Republic.htm#ixzz5nnRuTZnO

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Bert & Friends “Haluzinace”

Líbej vílo nás (Jsi krásná) Snídámsnídanicosnídám rád (Jsi gurmán) Pusu, pusu, twice, twice Vítám supr čupr paradise (Myslíš ráj?)

//English translation for “Hallucination”//

Kiss us, fairy (You're beautiful) I like to eat breakfast  (You're a gourmet) Kiss, kiss, twice, twice I welcome super (duper) paradise (Do you know paradise?)

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Prohra Praha, súper group of two Czech hardcore label Silver Rocket bands: Adam from Gnu and Planety.

nb: the scarf on the lamp reads “good night white pride,” which is an anti-fascist slogan. Unfortunately its graphic design often undermines its intended sentiments.

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At Futbal Proti Racismus fest, May 2018

Siska is a feminist hardcore band from Poland, with spoken word poet and punk singer Alex Freixeit and bassist Buri.

Truly one of the most intense, raw and honest concerts I have ever seen.

https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11002/poland-feminist-punks-siksa-are-taking-no-prisoners

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Kommunisti industrial/electronic set May 4, 2019

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Měsíc to vidí, bohužel, není to řidič, je to reálnej sen za volantem brm brm brm brm Vzadu má zvíře vpředu strom, dávej si prosím.. tě příště pozor

Refrén: Hálelůja, halelůjááá, zpívá duha duhám Vzadu v tom autě, měl se sebou kakakadua Steeva

Sloka: Slunce už slyší, mímínó, nějáká Jůlia počíná óóóoooo A teď se dovíš jeho jméno, bude tóó George úóóóó

Refrén: Pojďme mu připít.. georgee si zpívá s duhou haluleluja Vzkřísí ho ona, přesně na dvanáctýho jůla Jůlija.

Jůlija, Jůlija, Jůlija, Jůlija…

Růžovej dým Lupanária, vdechla život, a pak mě objala…

Refrén: Pojďme mu připít.. Georgee si zpívá s duhou hálulelůja Vzkřísí ho ona, přesně na dvanáctýho jůla Jůlija Sloních snů je den, snesu ti jachtu z nebe, vílo růžová. Už nechci hřešit, už chci jen zpívat halelůja Jůlija….