{"id":903,"date":"2009-08-19T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:55:11","slug":"recent-listening-1-dva-fonok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/recent-listening-1-dva-fonok\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent listening 1: DVA \/ Fonok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening lately to an&nbsp;album <em>Fonok<\/em> by a Czech duo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2dva.cz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DVA<\/a>, comprising husband and wife: Jan Kratochvil and Barbora Kratochvilova.&nbsp; They describe their&nbsp;music as the folklore of non-existent nations, and it is&nbsp;&nbsp;a wonderful combination of electronics, acoustic instruments, nitrous-oxide-inflected voices, Slavic language chants (I think the language is Czech, but I am not certain), ostinato rhythms, and jazz sensibilities.&nbsp;&nbsp; The sax licks could be by James Chance, and the&nbsp;overall sound places this folklore firmly in that no wave, <em>nao wave<\/em>, post-punk nation of 1980s downtown Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>DVA [2008]:&nbsp; <em>Fonok<\/em>.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indies.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indies Scope<\/a>.<br \/>\nDVA website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2dva.cz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and myspace page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hudba2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening lately to an&nbsp;album Fonok by a Czech duo, DVA, comprising husband and wife: Jan Kratochvil and Barbora Kratochvilova.&nbsp; They describe their&nbsp;music as the folklore of non-existent nations, and it is&nbsp;&nbsp;a wonderful combination of electronics, acoustic instruments, nitrous-oxide-inflected voices, Slavic language chants (I think the language is Czech, but I am not certain), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-recent-listening","p1","y2009","m08","d19","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}