DVA at Crossroads Festival. Ostrava, Czech Republic In my last vlog, I spotlighted the folk performers at the Crossroads Festival (Part of the Colours of Ostrava Festival) in Czech Republic. This time around, I’m covering two bands that I had previously known about through their creatively oddball videos. I first became acquainted with the husband and wife team called DVA (two) when I saw their video “France Trance.” “Quirky” did not adequately describe this humorous little gem, in which a balloon sings in faux French before “getting popped.” In their next video (by this time I was on the alert for them) “Nunovo Tango” the animator created a montage of horror movie images with a Tim Burton sensibility. This time the song was sung in faux-Hungarian. DVA is Bára Kratochvílová on vocals, clarinet and bass clarinet, saxophone, wind “midi controller,” toy piano, and anything else that can make a fun sound. Her husband Jan Kratochvíl plays guitar, while providing the looping, and vocals. It’s amazing how much music these two can make. The tunes are full of catchy lines and attractive beats, and sound eerily like European pop, or rock, or disco; and yet not. Kratochvilová has an unerring ear for the sounds of other languages and so even when you know it is nonsense, it sounds like Russian, or French or even English. While watching them perform in Ostrava I just had to smile, and think to myself….whose idea WAS this??? I guess you could call what they do “art music,” but most importantly DVA is FUN. And you can dance to it. _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Hits92 Radio _______ FB: r-js/1nNhEli / TW: r-js/XvfPli / Listen to LIPSapp Hits92 Radio r-js/1mYrXSo #frankocean #edsheeran #elliegoulding #ournameisfun #maroon5
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:52:08 +0000
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