Father Mother Sister Brother (Original Music From The Film)

Music from the new Jim Jarmusch film, featuring music done jointly by the legendary director, joined by the relatively young British/German singer-songwriter Anika, who crossed paths at a Sacred Bones label event in 2022. Anyway, the film is a funny, sweet, and somewhat cryptic series of three stories of parents, their children, home, memories, and loss; the music (hazy electronic sounds, and a few vocal songs in opening/closing credits) was released as a soundtrack, many tracks are quite short, but you can even probably allow them to flow continuously; NO FCCS, all of it is quite nice

1. (2:12) *** A cool, jazzy take on the 1960s pop/r&b song "Spooky", with minimalist bass accompaniment for the first half, then keyboard in back half (short overall, just two minutes)
2. (1:01) **** Woozy, dreamy, blissy, bittersweet
3. (0:46) **** Hazy and tape-warpy, daydreamy and indistinct; in the film, a sort of epiphany in the presence of skateboarders (see track 10 for longer take on same theme)
4. (0:55) *** Soft, sweet, hazy
5. (0:33) *** Sweet and hazy, but a bit of longing and confusion
6. (1:08) *** Take-warpo sound, liminal and hazy
7. (1:08) **** nostalgic and hazy, plinky guitar and electric haze
8. (1:10) **** Soft and warm enveloping sounds
9. (1:15) **** Hypnotic and european guitar haze and reverb swamp
10. (3:38) ***** Sour and metallic reverb haze, that spirals out into even more hazy and dreamy circles of sound, reaching an epiphany, finally fading into soft, few echoes
11. (1:35) ***** Soft and sweet synthy bubbles of sound, floating about in a soft cloud
12. (0:47) ** Very short hazy bit
13. (3:36) ***** Take on Jackson Browne's "These Days", done with very similar arrangement to Nico's famous take on it, but a bit more minimalistic at first, and then evolving into a rich synth soup of warm electric sounds and echoes, eventually with air of electric guitar fuzz
14. (3:43) ******* Plinky, dreamy, hazy, really pretty, and unlike earlier tracks in this vein, long enough to hold onto
15. (4:21) ***** Ethereal, somewhat sharp and razory, sounds in a minimalist suspension of soft sounds, echoes and daydreams, even some white noise hiss -- sound congeals towards end
16. (3:32) ******* See #13, but additional mix featuring the Kaleidoskop string quartet, makes it a bit more interesting, but the other more minimalist mix is nice too