Jolie Holland has a new record called Wine Dark Sea. Due for release some time next year, it’s sort of a return, but in the same it’s a continued expansion of an ever-widening grip on the varied elements of music that make up her universe. I spoke with her a week before going into the […]
So begins a weekly recommendation of movies whose selection is governed by a particular moment, consideration, or state of mind. This week’s topic: more than a music doc –Shut Up and Play the Hits – How to attend your funeral and live to tell about it. –Scott Walker: 30 Century Man – Ways we are not thinking […]
Recently I got ahold of music for the BBC documentary series Africa and was immediately struck by its quality and talent. Composer Sarah Class, a veteran of BBC as well as many other ventures into disparate territories, manages a landscape of orchestration that is beautiful, compelling, and far beyond what I’ve grown to expect from […]
[Continued from Part 1] GT: Now, according to IMDb, there are some classical pieces that you performed for To the Wonder as well, am I correct? HT: Yeah. GT: Was that brought out from the process of The Tree of Life or was it completely separate? HT: There was a Bach piece and a piece […]
It’s like reading a transcript with the journalist removed. Peter Hook (bassist from Joy Division and New Order), sharing, talking, engaging in a conversation with you, the reader, resulting in a strange sort of memoir, travelogue, that works well for the material at hand, somehow managing to demystify without demystifying how exactly the band formed, […]
