Derek Jarman was an English artist and filmmaker who worked primarily outside the mainstream. Throbbing Gristle’s music featured in a few of his works, most notably the 1980 version of his hour-long In the Shadow of the Sun, a collection of Super 8 film shorts re-shot to 16mm. I picked up the soundtrack record last […]
Tag: Soundtrack
Brian Eno – “Eno (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (2024)
The name Brian Eno conjures up any number of ideas as to who, or what, Brian Eno is. The seminal Music For… series of ambient albums. Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. Roxy Music. Collabing with David Byrne on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Nokia ringtones. Dude has been out front for so long it’s easy […]
Kælan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson – “The Phantom Carriage (Original Score)” (2024)
This is the second modern soundtrack of a silent film to come out of Iceland in the last year or so, the other being the previously reviewed The Seashell And The Clergyman by Jóhannes Birgir Pálmason and Hálfdan Árnason last September. In this case the inspiration is The Phantom Carriage, a Swedish film released in […]
Jóhannes Pálmason & Hálfdán Árnason – “Original Composition For The 1928 Experimental Silent Film The Seashell And The Clergyman” (2023)
The British Board of Film Censors once said of the 1928 surrealist film, The Seashell and the Clergyman, that it was “so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.” Sounds like my kind of movie. I don’t have a lot of experience with early cinema, nor with […]
“The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (2006)
Upon first viewing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, I thought it was shit. Now it’s in my Fast and Furious Top 3. In fact, it’s probably my second favorite Fast and Furious film, right behind the original, and just ahead of the one where they go to Brazil. Though I haven’t seen the […]