Manafonistas

Johan Johansson, the Islandic composer told about his work on the soundtrack of last year’s brilliant thriller PRISONERS: „Denis Villeneuve hired me because he wanted my sound, so as soon as I figured that out, it was really all about being myself. I reacted to the images and to the performances. Fortunately, if you have such good material to work with, my job becomes a lot easier. We wanted the music to work in contrast to the darkness of the film, to be a kind of lyrical and poetic voice that rings throughout. This music is very string based and is based on modal chord progressions. There is also a lot of music that is more psychological and serves to heighten the tension and the sense of unease. This music is very drone-based and a lot of it was created in Berlin with the cellist Hildur Gudnadóttir and Erik Skodvin from Deaf Center and Svarte Greiner. So there are these two voices working in a kind of counterpoint throughout the film.“  In my next edition of KLANGHORIZONTE  on January, 18th, I will play music from the soundtrack (Thanks to Ed Dense sending me the soundtrack out of nowhere!) Finally, I got the brillant vinyl-edition of Arthur  Russell’s „Another Thought“ (thank you, A-Musik!) which will get extensive airplay, too. It’s a bit difficult to place jazzman Arild Andersen‘ new album MIRA in this context, and even more strange to let Doug Paislay sing a song from his forthcoming album STRONG FEELINGS, but I will try to find a plot :)

Wer wie ich – angeregt durch die Auszuege aus der suggestiven Filmmusik zu „The Fog“ die Michael letztens in den „Klanghorizonten“ gespielt hat – Lust bekommen hat sich noch einmal John Carpenters Film aus dem Jahre 1980 anzusehen, der hat am 20. Januar Gelegenheit dazu; auf ARTE ab 22.15 Uhr! Carpenter selbst ist uebrigens in einer Nebenrolle als Kuester der Gemeinde Antonio Bay zu sehen.

 
 
 
1) Neil Young: Flying On The Ground is Wrong, aus LIVE AT THE CELAR DOOR, LP 2/6, 7´11´´

2) British Sea Power: Remarkable Driving Feat, aus FROM THE SEA TO THE LAND BEYOND, CD 04, 4´58´´

3) Stephan Micus: The Music of Stones, Part 2, aus THE MUSIC OF STONES, CD 02, 5’22“

4) Harold Budd: Jane 3, aus JANE, CD 03, 5´07´´

5) Robbie Basho: Green River Suite, aus VISIONS OF THE COUNTRY, LP 1/1, 7´46´´

6) Labradford: Up to Pizmo, aus FIXED:CONTEXT, CD 02, 6´18´´

7) Chris Eckman: Ghosts Along The Border, aus HARNEY COUNTY, LP 2/2, 5´17´´

8) Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald: Electric Garden (Original Mix), aus BORDERLAND, CD 04, 9´00´´ (Ausschnitt)