Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova


I'm a sucker for a good Dylan cover. Ditto that for a good Van Morrison one. Sucker for a good love story and a good underdog one too.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova starred as "Guy" and "Girl" in this year's little indie film that could, Once. Shot for around $160,000, the film, about two musicians falling in love, has gone on to earn its money back many times over. It has been showing up on almost every year end best of list I have come across. Not bad at all.

The movies two stars were both relative new comers to acting. Irglova was a true rookie, never having acted in her 19 years. For Hansard, this was only his second role ever, although it had been some time since he first appeared as Outspan Foster in 1991's The Committments. Glen's regular dayjob, as it has been since 1990, is the main man in Irish band, The Frames. Marketa, barely out of high school, met Glen through friends, leading the duo to record '06's The Swell Season. The album contains songs previously seen on some Frames records and that would later appear on the Once soundtrack.

I've really been falling in love with Glen and Marketa's covers as of late. A collector's edition of the Once OST, released in December features their take on Van Morrison's Into The Mystic. They also contributed their version of Dylan's You Ain't Going Nowhere on the I'm Not There soundtrack/compilation from earlier in the year. Both are fantastically compelling.

Both files are sendspace files. Follow the link.

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Into The Mystic
mp3
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - You Ain't Going Nowhere mp3

7 comments:

Old Backstop said...

This Into the Mystic version is great! I had been searching high and low for this MP3, thanks so much for sharing it!

Henry in CT

Anonymous said...

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

... for Glen and Marketa's cover of "Into The Mystic." It's my favorite song of all time and their version is simply perfect.

I'm super grateful! Fantastic! You've just made my day!

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Elliott Broidy said...

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