Invada Records and Lakeshore Records are set to release the original score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to the forthcoming film La Panthère Des Neiges digitally December 17. The soundtrack is one of Ellis and Cave’s most heartfelt and haunting film projects. Lakeshore Records will release the album digitally in the Americas and Invada Records in the rest of the world. A first single, the track “We Are Not Alone,” (an edit not found on the album), will be released digitally on November 23.
Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave – Litany of the Forsaken (Official Music Video)
Perhaps best-known for his distinctive vocal style, Australian polymath Nick Cave here steps into the spotlight as librettist rather than performer, for a second operatic project with Belgian composer Nicholas Lens. Having collaborated on Shell Shock in 2014, they joined forces again during the global lockdown to create a new work, L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S.. At Lens’s request, Cave penned 12 litanies – “petitions to a divine maker” – simple, moving texts which the composer then wove into what he calls a “modest chamber opera of sleeping dreams”. Riding his bike around an unusually empty Brussels, Lens had been reminded of the magical stillness of the Rinzai Zen temples he had seen in rural Japan. Memories of these structures and of the inner peace he experienced while visiting them were the initial inspiration for the minimalistic, at times trance-like music of L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S., which features Denzil Delaere, N.L. Noorenbergh, Claron McFadden and Lens’s artist daughter Clara-Lane on vocals. Though the eleven instrumentalists recorded their parts individually in Lens’s home, to respect social distancing guidelines, there is a clear unity of purpose about the finished opera, a work of gentle beauty.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis perform a triumphant rendition of "Push the Sky Away" recorded at their Film Music concert in December 2019 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Julie Lea Goodwin, soprano Nicholas Buc, conductor
Audio mix: Joshua Craig
Film Music: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis was originally produced by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Official Video for Cosmic Dancer, interpreted by Nick Cave. From the forthcoming album 'AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T.Rex' out Sept 4th.
Video Director: Ethan Silverman Filmed at The Village Studios, Los Angeles
I was dancing when I was twelve I was dancing when I was twelve I was dancing when I was out I was dancing when I was out
I danced myself right out the womb I danced myself right out the womb Is it strange to dance so soon? I danced myself right out the womb
I was dancing when I was eight I was dancing when I was eight Is it strange to dance so late? Is it strange to dance so late?
I danced myself into the tomb I danced myself into the tomb Is it strange to dance so soon? I danced myself into the tomb
Is it wrong to understand The fear that dwells inside a man? What's it like to be alone I liken it to a balloon
I danced myself out of the womb I danced myself out of the womb Is it strange to dance so soon? I danced myself into the tomb
Part One 1 Spinning Song 2 Bright Horses 3 Waiting for You 4 Night Raid 5 Sun Forest 6 Galleon Ship 7 Ghosteen Speaks 8 Leviathan
Part Two 1 Ghosteen 2 Fireflies 3 Hollywood
Credits: Film by: Hingston Studio Directed by: Tom Hingston Animation and Visual FX by: Yusuke Murakami, Markus Lehtonen, Aislinn Clifford, Amanda Tooke and Tiago Higgs
Este ano não há Top 10s para ninguém. Este ano há uma lista alfabética de coisas que me maravilharam ao longo deste ano. Livros, discos, filmes, séries, concertos. Lembro-me destas, o que já quer dizer alguma coisa. Outras esqueci, a memória falha-me por vezes. Por ordem alfabética de autor:
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma - Se a memória fosse escrita, encenada, representada e filmada com perfeição virtuosística, era este filme. Um tratado sobre a arte do cinema. Com defeitos, claro, criticável, claro, mas isso haja liberdade para fazer sempre.
Bruno Nogueira (com Marco Martins e Ricardo Adolfo) - Sara - A melhor coisa que já se fez na ficção televisiva em Portugal. E ainda se consegue ver, creio. Do princípio ao fim, por favor.
Deborah Levy - The Cost of Living - Uma das jóias do ano, o confessional e diarístico escrito como deve ser. Já tinha gostado do "Hot Milk" e vou ler mais, estou certo.
Hanna Gadsby - Nanette - Sobre o humor, a gargalhada, o trauma, a liberdade e muitas outras coisas em que vale a pena pensar e sentir. Um tema para ler sempre mais.
Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13 - Pegar num género e ele ser outro género e deixar passar os anos anos e um livro ser isto.
Kore-Eda Hirokazu - Shoplifters - Vamos jogar um jogo de escondidas e descoberta com um amor profundo às nossas personagens. Foi merecida Palma de Ouro.
Laurie Anderson - Landfall (com Kronos Quartet)/ All The Things That I Lost In The Flood / ao vivo no Nimas - Um disco, um livro, um espetáculo, a perda, a poesia. Damn, girl.
LCD Soundsystem - Ao vivo no Coliseu dos Recreios - Transpirar a sério pelos melhores motivos com todos os meus amigos, mesmo os que não estavam lá.
Low - Double Negative - Quase sem querer, um disco que se entranhou. Fiquei surpreendido ao vê-lo em tantas listas de fim de ano, mas isso não me impediu de ouvir de novo.
Michael Ondaatje - Warlight - Volto sempre a ele e ele nunca me desilude, na intersecção entre história, indivíduo e poesia onde um dos corações da literatura vive.
Nick Cave - Ao vivo no Primavera Sound Porto - O momento, o local, o tempo, os artistas e, é claro, a música, no festival que prefiro, por estes dias.
Nick Drnaso - Sabrina - Tão longe chegou a chamada "novela gráfica". Nenhum preconceito deve impedir a leitura deste livro, num estilo tão limpo quanto os temas são graves, um relato minimal de um país caótico.
Paul Thomas Anderson / Johnny Greenwood - Phantom Thread - Les beaux esprits se rencontrent. Já tinha acontecido antes mas de novo aqui um filme, uma banda sonora, uma elegância que podemos destruir como nos apetecer.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Killing Eve - Espias, assassinas, mulheres. Um dos géneros mais antigos do audiovisual pode sempre ser baralhado sobre clichés e tornar-se um prazer.
Rosalía - El Mal Querer - Há gente que explica muito melhor que eu como este disco é musicalmente inteligente e viciante.
Ryan McGinley - Mirror, Mirror - Sempre a pensar, a sentir, a fotografar, rodeado de amigos e imagens, o Ryan mostra-nos o caminho.
Thom Yorke - Suspiria OST - Lá podia o Thom ficar atrás do Johnny. vivemos sobre os ombros de gigantes.
Thomas Adès - Concerto de piano com música de Leoš Janáček - Há sítios onde se volta, se é feliz e se descobre coisas que não se conhecia. A Gulbenkian é um deles.
The new EP ‘Distant Sky’ from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will be released on 12” vinyl and digitally on 28 September.
Let us go now, my one true love Call the gasman, cut the power out We can set out, we can set out for the distant skies Watch the sun, watch it rising in your eyes
Let us go now, my darling companion Set out for the distant skies See the sun, see it rising See it rising, rising in your eyes
They told us our gods would outlive us They told us our dreams would outlive us They told us our gods would outlive us But they lied
Let us go now, my only companion Set out for the distant skies Soon the children will be rising, will be rising This is not for our eyes
Some go and some stay behind Some never move at all Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor Girl in amber lumber slumber shuts the bathroom door
The phone, the phone, the phone it rings, it rings, it rings no more The song, the song, the song it spins since nineteen eighty-four The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone, it rings no more The song, the song it's been spinning now since nineteen And if you want to bleed, just bleed And if you want to bleed, just bleed And if you want to bleed, don't breathe A word
Just step away and let the world spin And now in turn, you turn You kneel, lace up his shoes, your little blue-eyed boy Take him by his hand, go move and spin him down the hall I get lucky, I get lucky cause I tried again I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world In a slumber till you crumbled, were absorbed into the earth Well, I don't think that any more
The phone it rings no more The song, the song it spins now since nineteen eighty-four The song, the song, the song it spins, it's been a spinning now And if you'll hold me I will tell you that you know that And if you want to leave, don't breathe And if you want to leave, don't breathe And if you want to leave, don't breathe a word And let the world turn
The song, the song it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more The phone, it rings, it rings And you won't stay
Don't touch me Don't touch me Don't touch me Don't touch me