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Not sure if anyone else has checked this out, but I was really
impressed by the Soundtrack to "Moon". Moon is the new low budget sci-fi
feature film by David Bowie's Son Duncan Jones (aka Zowie Bowie).
The soundtrack is composed by Clint Mansell who is the former lead
vocalist from Pop Will Eat Itself. He's done the music for Darren
Aronofsky's Films: Pi, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler.
Here's the music from the opening sequence of the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys
And here's more info on Clint Mansell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Mansell
http://www.myspace.com/clintmansell
http://www.clintmansell.com/
If you have any interest in seeing the film, I would avoid watching
previews and reading the reviews, they really spoil the plot (in my
opinion). The movie is in the vein of Silent Running, Sunshine, Solaris
and to a certain extent 2001. It's really getting mixed reviews so I'm
not really telling anyone to go see it. For me it was a real step back
into the world of oldschool 70s and early 80s sci-fi with miniatures and
all the stuff you'd want to read about in Starlog magazine at the comic
store!
I think it's worth taking a quick listen - not really "loopy" but a
really great soundscape with a mixture of organic acoustic piano, synth
pads and electronic drums. Very moody and atmospheric.
TREVOR.
Rev Fever wrote:
> Nurse With Wound-The Surveillance Lounge
> Throbbing Gristle-The Third Mind Movements
> Iannis Xenakis- Electronic Music
> Iannis Xenakis-Pleiades
> Franco Battiato-Sulle Corde di Aries
> Wonderwall Music by George Harrison
> Edward Ka-Spel- Dream Logik, Part Two
> Brian Eno-Discreet Music
> Brian Eno-The Shutov Assembly
> (Looper Thomas O'Neill) Myxproject-Instance
> Andrew Liles & Jean-Herve Peron- Fini!
> Mort Garson-Black Mass Lucifer
> Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come- Journey
>
> (and the list goes on and on and on....ad infinitum...)
>
> Cheers,
> Rev Fever
> http://www.spiritone.com/~rvfever/ <http://www.spiritone.com/%7Ervfever/>
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Dave Trenkel wrote:
>
>> I like these listening lists, it's always a great source for new music.
>>
>> Last CD's I got:
>> Sun Ra: With Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold: reissue of an
>> extremely rare mid-60's Saturn LP. I actually have the LP, but the CD
>> adds 45 extra minutes of better recorded tracks. This is the energy
>> music side of the Arkestra, and Sanders, who was new to NYC at the
>> time of this recording, is already sounding killer.
>>
>> John McLaughlin/Chick Corea: Five Peace Band Live and Return To
>> Forever: Live at Montreaux (DVD). In hight school in the 70's, I
>> idolized Corea, especially the RTF quartet stuff. I pretty much quit
>> listening to him after the Elektrik Band's glossy FM overload, but
>> these two releases have just been klicking my ass. Both of these are
>> just killer, the new RTF seems to have a deeper pocket than they ever
>> did in the 70's, and the 5PB is pure fusion, excellent musicianship
>> and a lot of fire.
>>
>> Mulatu Astatke with the Heliocentrics: Mulatu is an Ethiopian
>> musician/arranger/bandleader behind much of the excellent Ethio-funk
>> of the 70's, and The Heliocentrics are a young British band with a
>> vast 70's fixation. It's a perfect match, Mulatu's slinky grooves and
>> strange modal melodies tastefully updated with touches of hip hop and
>> electronics.
>>
>> Secret Chiefs 3: The Severed Right Hands of the Last Men (title is
>> actually in Italian, but I don't have the disc with me and am too
>> lazy to look it up). Speaking of 70's fixations, this is a soundtrack
>> to an imaginary Italian horror film. If I didn't know better, I'd
>> swear it was a lost Morricone or Goblin rarity, even the recording
>> quality fits with the era.
>>
>> Also, the new Tortoise is very nice, lots of cool distorted analog
>> synths.
>>
>> But the majority of my listening lately has been stuff I've
>> downloaded from avantgardeproject.org: an archjive of about 150 lp's
>> of out of print academic electronic and 20th Century classical music.
>> Lp's are transferred from vinyl with extreme fidelity, even the mp3
>> versions sound excellent, and it's really a wealth of interesting
>> music. Material by Parmegiani, Berio, Subotnick, Kagel, Cage and many
>> others, including composers I've never heard of, and I've been kind
>> of obsessed with this stuff since college. Probably of special
>> interest to this list are several late-70's Henry Kasier recordings.
>> This archive is simply astounding, it'll take me weeks of listening
>> to just make a first pass through this.
>>
>> Seems like I've been living in the past lately :-)
>>
>> Also, I should second Rick's recomendation of Nik Bartsch's Ronin, I
>> have both of their ECM discs and they are incredible. It's like the
>> concepts of 80's Krimson as played by a chamber-jazz ensemble. Great
>> stuff.
>