Daily Tune On - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova “Falling Slowly”
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova “Falling Slowly”
With the movie “Once” as my weekly hype this week, I had to choose the song “Falling Slowly” as the Daily Tune On for today.
Glen and Marketa met eachother when “The Frames”, Glen’s Irish band, was touring the Czech Republic, Marketa’s home country. They met through her father who is also a musician and a music promoter. Since then they have recorded and toured as “The Swell Season,” and together they wrote the songs for what started off as the small independent Irish film “Once,” and turned into a sleeper hit changing their lives forever.
Below is a cut of their song “Falling Slowly”, for which they won the Academy Award this year in the “Best Original Song” category. It is actually a performance that they did on the David Letterman show. I would have preferred to give you a different live performance, but the audio on some of the others I found could not compare to this one.
To read more about the movie “Once” and Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, and to find out how to get information about their upcoming U.S. and European tour, check out this weeks “CIS Weekly Hype.”
To hear this track either click on the link below or cut and paste it into your browser and enjoy the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPbC2YrUUsI
August 13th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I’m so glad you featured Glen and Marketa. I stumbled upon this movie–and the heart-soul music by chance. What a treat! I checked out the YouTube clip last night when I needed a break from a long day…it proved just the thing!