Music From Films You Should Have Seen
Simon Fisher Turner
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (mp3) | 3 tracks | £2.99 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 3 tracks | £3.99 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 3 tracks | £3.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.75 |
Simon Fisher Turner - Music From Films You Should Have Seen
"Soundtracks work on many levels," says aficionado Jonny Trunk. "There is the obvious link to cinema, classic scenes and stars. But every style of music can be found in film music, along with styles of music that can't be categories. And what other music can you live, love and murder to?"
Simon Fisher Turner's Music From Films You Should Have Seen, is a perfect example of this imperative. The first track is designed to accompany Jean Genet's Un Chant D'Amour. Beginning with cool jazz and near-eastern hints of Lloyd Miller's great Lifetime In Oriental Jazz, it then shifts through a bit of industrial and theremin, all underpinned by a deep ambient roar.
Turner is best known for his association with Derek Jarman, a director almost preternaturally alert to the possibilities of image and sound. It Happened By Chance, is the soundtrack for a 2004 exhibition of Jarman's Super-8 films. The blurred, dreamy quality of Super-8s often brings out the best in musicians, and Turner's 30-minute piece hints at Throbbing Gristle's soundtrack for Jarman's In The Shadow Of The Sun, the best thing they ever did.
The final track comes from The Invisible Frame, a 2009 film by Cynthia Beatt in which she retraces the bicycle ride taken by Tilda Swinton along the Berlin Wall in 1988's Cycling The Frame. In the intervening 21 years, this concrete, militarised zone has been overtaken by urban wilderness or rampant redevelopment. Based around samples of cellist Natalie Clein, The Invisible Frame is more conventional, but the rapid-fire strings evoke a mittel-European sense of time passing and loss that evokes Berlin's complex psychogeography.
Tracklisting
Download Album (OS054DD)
- Simon Fisher Turner - Un Chant D’amour
- Simon Fisher Turner - It Happended By Chance
- Simon Fisher Turner & Nathalie Clein - The Invisible Frame
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