What are you listening to now?
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Infectious, orchestral-romantic swell for this 2014 John Woo film. Iwashiro almost always delivers. I discovered him via THE DOG OF FLANDERS in 1997 already, but I also recommend FUKUSHIMA 50 from 2020 and A LIGHT IN THE HARBOR, released last year (I mini-reviewed that one here). And THE RED CLIFF, obviously, also for Woo.
My first own Pat Metheny album, way back on LP, though I had heard some of his music before, because a school-friend of mine was a fan. (Was a kick for both of us when they collaborated on UNDER FIRE.)
Pat Metheny would now and then venture again into film territory, his first full feature film score was John Schlesinger’s THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN.Classic Blanchard for Spike, with its powerful jazz Americana. One of my favourite scores of 2020. It was cool to hear how Blanchard’s orchestrator Howard Drossin provided a similarly styled score for Lee’s HIGHEST 2 LOWEST last year, when Blanchard was probably busy with the Hurricane Katrina documentary for Netflix.
Didn’t know Drossin is Blanchard’s regular orchestrator (since “forever” as I just checked out). I only encountered him with THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS he scored with RZA. Nice quite groovy one.
arte had shown a live broadcast of a concert of Francis Lai’s music yesterday:
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/131033-001-A/die-filmmusik-von-francis-lai/I have not watched it yet and just clicked a little into it. It starts with a (unrelated) commission premiere apparently but includes a Lai hommage by Gabrial Yared who also performed on piano himself. The track list on the site seems to be at random order as that seems to be somewhere in the middle (at least I spotted Yared there).
It’s probably geo blocked on the site as usual but as often it might show up on youtube some time later.
Cool! I love Lai. Wish we had something like Arte up here. The video actually displays for me, even though I’m in another country.
And Nick….Glass spurred on by the recent Kennedy Center event?
Cool! I love Lai. Wish we had something like Arte up here. The video actually displays for me, even though I’m in another country.
Great, apparently not everything is geo blocked if outside Germany or France.
I picked up and fell in love with The Dog and the Future by French indie duo Agar Agar in 2018, when I was in Berlin for a few weeks.
If John Carpenter and Philip K. Dick might have ever considered to make a minimalist melancholy art pop album together, that’s what it may have sounded like.
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