The Swell Season

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The Swell Season
The Swell Season cover
Studio album by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
Released 21 April 2006
Recorded Sono, Prague
Genre Folk
Label Overcoat Recordings
Professional reviews
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová chronology
The Swell Season
(2006)		 Strict Joy
(2009)
Glen and Markéta, during a show in Derry, Northern Ireland, in April 2006

The Swell Season originally refers to the 2006 album by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. The title of the album as well as of the song "The Swell Season" is inspired by Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title.

Since their mutual rise to prominence after starring in the 2007 film Once, they increasingly referred to themselves as "The Swell Season" in promotion of their performances until it has unambiguously become the formal name of their collaboration in 2008. (Notably, they still used their separate names when they contributed their cover of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" to the 2007 soundtrack of I'm Not There.)

The initial album came about after Glen and Marketa were approached by the Czech film director Jan Hřebejk while touring in the Czech Republic, and were asked by him to record songs for his upcoming film Beauty in Trouble. It was the first album that Hansard, the singer for The Frames, had released independently of his band.

Some of the tracks on this album have appeared on other recordings - the track "Falling Slowly" and "When Your Mind's Made Up" on The Frames' album The Cost, and "Falling Slowly", "When Your Mind's Made Up", "Lies" and "Leave" on the Once soundtrack.

A follow up album, Strict Joy, is due to be released September 29, 2009.[1]

Contents

[edit] Academy Award

In February 2008, the duo won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly", beating songs from the films Enchanted and August Rush.

[edit] The Simpsons

On October 3, 2008, Glen announced to the audience at their concert in San Diego that he and Marketa had just driven down from Los Angeles where they recorded their voices for an episode of The Simpsons when the family visits Dublin, Ireland. They also announced that they were due to record the second half of their new album the following week.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "This Low"
  2. "Sleeping"
  3. "Falling Slowly"
  4. "Drown Out"
  5. "Lies"
  6. "When Your Mind's Made Up"
  7. "The Swell Season"
  8. "Leave"
  9. "The Moon"
  10. "Alone Apart"

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.theswellseason.com/news/the-swell-season-announce-new-album-strict-joy/

[edit] External links

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