Festive mix: Zpívánky - Czech folk song TV show for kids

It'll be a good conversation starter at any christmas party to say that you're currently listening to a mix/edit of songs from a Czech folk song/folk dance/fairy tale TV show for children.

Download this mix here.

I stumbled upon this show on YouTube while looking for TV idents. Here's my YouTube playlist (the mix/edit is based on sound snippets from these videos).

If this puts you in a festive mood, you might also like this Eastern European fairy tale soundscape I made some time ago.

Ester Krumbachová

Some portraits captured while watching "Pátrání po Ester", Vera Chytilová's 2005 film about Ester Krumbachová (1923-1996).

Previously on Dispokino: Vražda Ing. Čerta (the fourth picture above shows her on the set of this film)

Vražda Ing. Čerta

Ester Krumbachová was a seminal figure of Czech cinema. As a writer and designer, she was involved in legendary films such as Sedmikrásky and Ovoce stromu rajských jíme, Valerie a týden divu, O slavnosti a hostech, Malá morská víla and many others.
Vražda Ing. Čerta (1970), the only film she directed, is lesser known. During most of its 77 minutes, the two main and almost only characters cook (Ona, played by Jirina Bohdalová) and eat (Ing. Cert / the devil, played by Vladimír Mensík) inside Ona's appartment.
It's quite a trip. Bon appetit!

Eastern European fairytale soundscape

A collage I made from soundbits of eastern european fairy tale records without understanding any of the languages but loving the sound. 


Previously: Pohádky na deskách Supraphon

Šmidli, fidli, pidli

Have a merry Xmas with the Murmuring Nutmeg and Šmidli, fidli, pidli!
Following this tradition here on dispokino.