Recordings of Music for Film

General | Jul 2002

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nari
Reviewed 2002-10-09

My first surefire album week pick. Short (1-2min), minimal arragements of ideas of songs (play one or two or ten). Mostly acoustic instrumentals, sometimes treated with pedals and effects. All tracks have their own mood, but the album works together as one long, dark, beautiful reverie. Put on this subtle, evocative record, puff a pipe, and watch the grey rain drip from the eaves. –nari

1. haunting jazzy song for clarinet and guitar (return in trcks 15)
2. moderate tempo punchy folk song, transposed down to bass
3. whale moans
4. serene; piano melody, warm synth, and gentle cymbal skids
5. idly picking around on acoustic guitar, piano accomp.
6. slow, lurching keyboard melody moves from dark to light to dark
7. ocean waves ambiance
8. stephen basho-junghans esque; dark acoustic meldoy with tension
and subtle dynamics changes
*9. cooing strands of electric guitar; thoughtful, resigned
10. marimba, assorted percussion ensemble; rhythmic, plinky
*11. layered out of phase acoustic guitars, punctuated by glockenspiel
12. taiko
13. dirgey detuned bass underneath eastern sounding melody
14. acoustic guitar and deep, pungent chords trudging/toiling along
*15. track 1 elaboration: tragic clarinet & guitar duet, some pan flute
*16. delicate, plaintive female vocals, jazzy melody
*17. beautiful, regretful acoustic guitar waltz
18. tranquility interrupted with industrial music?? hey man nice shot
*19. tender jazzy instrumental; electric guitar and slides
20. dreamy, wraith-like smears of tuba and ambiance
21. raining stalactites tinkling against a crystal cave floor
22. slow chordal piano piece
23. moving, uncomplicated solo guitar
24. synth pad beat
*25. cascading echoes of guitar chords; melancholy
26. spider singing machine gun
*27. souful acoustic guitar solo with a flamenco style pick
28. crunchy no wave noise
29. poor recording of a keyboard and skronk trumpet

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Track listing

	1.	Her Smell Theme
	2.	The Girl of Her Dreams
	3.	A Brown Lung Hollering
	4.	The Way It Is Waltz
	5.	Glad to Be Unhappy
	6.	Brown Storm Poem
	7.	Good Bye Sadness, Hello Deah
	8.	Brown Daisies
	9.	And a Colored Sky Colored...
	10.	Fishing for Some Friends
	11.	Six Laughs Once Happy
	12.	Sunny and Cloudy
	13.	No More Papa Mama
	14.	Fatty and Skinny
	15.	Her Smell Theme
	16.	Lonely Boy
	17.	Falling Down Billy Brown
	18.	Drowning in Brown
	19.	A Somewhere Place
	20.	A Wet Cleaner
	21.	Sixteen Seconds Happy
	22.	With Smiles & Smiles & Smils
	23.	A Cold and Grey Summer Day
	24.	Brown 69
	25.	Dum Beet
	26.	Me and Her
	27.	Ass Fucker
	28.	Ass Fucker (Reprise)
	29.	I Think the Sun Is Coming..