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Nick Cave - White Lunar
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With high-profile soundtracks such as The Proposition and The Assassination Of Jesse James..., polymath Nick Cave has carved out yet another potential career path. Alongside collaborator Warren Ellis he’s mastered the subdued, unobtrusive yet sinister piano ripple and the occasional unsettling rumble, gilding them with rare, understated vocals. Also previewed here is their score to John Hillcoat’s imminent adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and it’s a thoroughly riveting journey. Fleshing out two discs are archive pieces from two lesser-known documentaries (concerning neuro-surgery and Cambodian sex workers, naturally)....full text |
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In this summer's ubiquity stakes both The Beatles and Nick Cave appear to have become omnipresent. The current wave of Cavemania follows in the wake of his sophomore novel The Death Of Bunny Munro, though we're eagerly awaiting someone to develop Rock Band: The Bad Seeds too. White Lunar is a cannily timed compilation of sorts, putting together the highlights of Cave and fellow Bad Seed and Dirty Three lynchpin Warren Ellis' soundtrack work with some instrumental rarities. Cave and Ellis have been working with each other for over 15 years, spanning work on the Grinderman project as well as these soundtracks and the ongoing success of The Bad Seeds. Their foray into scores is relatively recent, starting with their work on John Hillcoat's Australian western/revenge drama The Proposition, for which Cave also wrote the screenplay. The highlights from this film capture the haunting mood of the story together with an essence of traditional folk....full text |
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The soundtrack is a curious artform. Where most other art is in some way primary, an experience of its own, an original film score is secondary-- it serves something larger. For this reason, a lot of soundtrack music doesn't stand on its own absent the film. It simply isn't meant to do that. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, longtime collaborators in the Bad Seeds, understand this-- their collaborative film scores are sensitive to the needs of scene and character, but they also create scores so richly textured and evocative that they work divorced from their films. White Lunar gathers two discs' worth of the pair's soundtrack work, as well as four short archival instrumentals named for craters on the moon. The work is understandably different from what they do in the Bad Seeds, hewing closer to Ellis' other band, the Dirty Three. The discs divide the music thematically: Disc One contains pieces from the scores of John Hillcoat's The Proposition (2005), Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), and Hillcoat's as-yet unreleased adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road; Disc Two is filled with more under-the-radar work, including the four archival pieces, music from Geoffrey Smith's 2007 documentary The English Surgeon, a film about Dr. Henry Marsh's work training Ukrainian neurosurgeons, and music from Matthew Watson's recent documentary The Girls of Phnom Penh, which follows three Cambodian sex workers in an attempt to reveal the country's "virginity trade."...full text |
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