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Director - Country
Czech Republic
Motyčka Roman
From Dan to Dama
Aluminum pipes or a connection of a children’s hockey stick and a hanger, laundry drier and tens of other objects that can be turned into musical instruments. Dan Dlouhý, the head of the DAMA DAMA music band, shows how one can play nearly anything. He has always beeninterested in the drums, but he wanted to play it differently. He studied nuclear physics, but has always made living with music. A portrait ofa musician is mixed with video-like samples of his songs. These, too, give us the opportunity to learn more of this unconventional body that balances somewhere among the contemporary classical music, rock and ethno. This experimental band plays own songs as well as songsof Czech famous authors using traditional as well as original and hand made percussions. The band was founded in May 1990 and consistsof four people who play in their concerts and multimedia shows also the traditional as well as a dissembled piano, further special wind andstring instruments as well as their own bodies. The instrument range consists, however, mainly of numerous percussions, Dan Dlouhý aloneowns nearly a thousand. Let us remind that in 1994, the orchestra participated in music to the Michálek’s film America.
Aluminum pipes or a connection of a children’s hockey stick and a hanger, laundry drier and tens of other objects that can be turned into musical instruments. Dan Dlouhý, the head of the DAMA DAMA music band, shows how one can play nearly anything. He has always beeninterested in the drums, but he wanted to play it differently. He studied nuclear physics, but has always made living with music. A portrait ofa musician is mixed with video-like samples of his songs. These, too, give us the opportunity to learn more of this unconventional body that balances somewhere among the contemporary classical music, rock and ethno. This experimental band plays own songs as well as songsof Czech famous authors using traditional as well as original and hand made percussions. The band was founded in May 1990 and consistsof four people who play in their concerts and multimedia shows also the traditional as well as a dissembled piano, further special wind andstring instruments as well as their own bodies. The instrument range consists, however, mainly of numerous percussions, Dan Dlouhý aloneowns nearly a thousand. Let us remind that in 1994, the orchestra participated in music to the Michálek’s film America.