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Sunday Music ShowSpring is in the air!
In our first May edition of the Sunday Music Show, we listen to all sorts
of spring tunes. More
Current AffairsHana Hegerová, the Czech Edith Piaf, turns 80
“The Great Lady of Chanson”, “Edith Piaf from Prague” or a
“Chanteuse with a Slavic Soul” – that’s how critics have described
Hana Hegerová, the Czechoslovak singer who turns eighty on Wednesday.
After a career spanning almost half a century, Hana Hegerová saddened her
fans a couple of months ago by announcing her retirement from the stage and
cancelling all her scheduled concerts. More
Sunday Music ShowBrno hip hop band Čokovoko puts out new album
The Brno-based duo Čokovoko is one of the most unusual occurrences on the
Czech music scene. The combination of amusing lyrics, unexpected sampling
as well as rather crude singing earned them a following in clubs around the
country. Čokovoko brings a new voice to Czech pop; a female one for once,
and one that ridicules the usual pop – and hip hop – clichés.
Čokovoko has now put out a new album of what they call spoken word,
entitled Hudba, or Music. More
Music ExpressGipsy.cz – A phenomenal mix of hip hop, rap, r n’b and traditional gypsy music
In this week’s Music Express my guest is the talented singer, rapper and
composer Radek Banga, the frontman for one of the Czech Republic’s
best-known bands Gipsy.cz. The four-member group first broke onto the scene
six years ago and quickly rose to the top with an unusual mix of
traditional Romany music crossed with rap, hip hop, pop and r n’b. They
have only grown in popularity since.
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One on OneRapper Vladimir 518 on graffiti, architecture and hip hop
The music of Vladimir 518 has been a staple of the Czech hip hop scene
since it started in the 1990s. Now he has taken his music to a unique
performance called Spam that uses cutting-edge video arts to honour
architect Karel Prager. Prager was the mind behind some of the most
marvelled at and most despised structures in Prague, including the
National
Theatre’s New Scene building, where the show was held. At the beginning
of a wide-ranging interview I asked him why he had chosen the
controversial
designer as the theme for this latest production. More
Music ProfileHana Hegerová – the Slav Edit Piaf
Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Music Profile in which we
introduce Hana Hegerová, an actress and singer who is known as “the
Slav
Edit Piaf” or “the queen of chanson”. And we begin with her
rendition
of Edith Piaf’s smash hit Milord from 1959. More
ArtsIndy a Wich: Prague duo bring hip-hop to wider Czech audience
Hadej Kdo by Czech hip-hop act Indy & Wich was one of the most eagerly
awaited recent new releases. This latest offering by the rapper Indy and
the DJ-producer Wich is the first recording in nearly five years by the
popular duo, who were largely credited with bringing hip-hop to a
mainstream Czech audience with their successful debut album My 3 or Us 3.
This record, which also featured rapper La4 (hence the title) was released
back in 2000, just two years after Indy and Wich's first ever gig in 1998.
The relationship between the two men goes back further, however, to the
time when they were both tearaway teenagers on the streets of Prague in
the early 1990s.
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Press ReviewPress Review
All the papers today lead with different stories. LIDOVE NOVINY features a
photograph of the legendary Czech singer Hana Hegerova, who celebrated her
72nd birthday at Prague's National Theatre on Monday. PRAVO features a
tired and exhausted David Blaine, who spent forty-four days in a glass
cage in London with only water to keep him alive. The Czech- born former
US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, steals the show in MLADA FRONTA
DNES, having been welcomed by hundreds of fans during a book signing in
Prague.
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