DATAStream - "Found In The Attic"

http://8tracks.com/volpestarks/blade-runner-a-future-noir-mixtape-1

Very clunky off-key piano ditty of 30 sec or so, of the scary old film variety.

Metric - "Pagans in Vegas" (2015)

Happy girly electropop

• Lie Lie Lie - starts with something about lobotomy

Samuel Johnson on marriage

"a second marriage represents the triumph of hope over experience."

We think it's a sort of cynical wisecrack - you couldn't get along with A but you're sure you'll get along great with B. We think it's about divorce. In Johnson' time there was hardly any diverce. But there was a lot of early death. The way you parted from your spouse was, she died. Johnson's did. So that was the experience, love somebody and she dies. The hope was the new one wouldn't die.

[from John Crowley, "Dæmonomania"]

Les Amours Imaginaires

Slow love-triangle drama. At some point, three quarter into the film, it was becoming quite slow, even for such a film. Though the end looped everything nicely.

Melou - "Bound"

Noir, indie, female voice. Not Vaya Con Dios, and yet. The way of singing, yes. Not the style of the songs.

• Ribbon and a Crown

post rock playlist

http://8tracks.com/vatsan/the-ultimate-post-rock-study-playlist

• Tunturia - "Sinking"
  cannot find anything on spotify (which is a good thing), but fairly interesting sound scapes

Beans & Fatback - "Heroine Lovestruck"

Surfy.

• "Gilda" : catchy
• "Heroine Lovestruck" : ghostlike

Richard Brautigan - "Your Catfish Friend"

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
   one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
   of my affection
and think "It's beautiful
here by this pond.    I wish
    somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
   at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond?   It seems like
a perfect place for them."

Diane Coffee - "Everybody's a Good Dog"

Very seventies sound to it. Can't describe it otherwise. Pleasant to have in the background. Very ... melodic.

Low - "Ones and Sixes" (2015)

Songs are ok.

• The Innocents: quite intrigued by the low flarfy "beat"

Loin des Hommes (Far From Men) (2014)

Beautiful quiet film with Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb about a schoolteacher and a man in Algeria 1954, who, against the backdrop of rebellion, are thrown together for a lonely journey.

Based on the short story "The Guest" (le visiteur?) by Albert Camus.

Amazing emptiness.

Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Written and directed by David Oelhoffen, somebody to keep looking for.

Nick Cave in ... Russian?? Hungarian?? who cares!

"W moich ramionach" by Przyjaciele

Cave's most famous songs, totally incomprehensible, from a textual point of view. Awesome.

Mark Lanegan - "Houston: Publishing Demos 2002" (2015) and "A Thousand Miles of Midnight - Phantom Radio Remixes" (2015)

• from the demo's: Blind
• from the remixes: The Killing Season (UNKLE remix)

FilosofischeStilte - "I Forgot About it, When I Thought About It" (2015)

Instrumental, electronics. Good sound & beat (not fast). The Hague.

Actually, some songs have voices, but the words are hardly recognizable and do not intrude.

Very nice.

Predestination (2015)

Right up there with Looper in the the ultimate time-travel she/he is his own father/mother loop. Wonderful film. What I loved is how she tells her story in the beginning, taking quite some time to do so. No constant scifi time travel magic. Just true story.

Ane Brun - "My Lover Will Go"

I'm grabbing a bottle of wine over you

I'm craddling a bottle of wine over you


either way... although it's not one of her best songs.

Slow West (2015)

Beautiful western with Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Written by John Maclean. Supposedly Fassbender signed up before a single letter of the script was written. Keep an eye on that Maclean guy. Great music, great shots, great pace (yes, slow, as some of the best films are)

Great OST by Jed Kurzel.

As well as "The Minstrel's Song" by Brian Michael Mills.

The film, the story and the music: all are good for writing.

Kongos - "Lunatic" (2014)

Americana + African roots, the Ars Technica dude described them.

Not sure, but they have an accordeon, it is slightly punky and gypsy.

• I'm Only Joking - woooooh
• Come with me Now - nice!

Eddie Vedder - "Long Nights" (Into the Wild, 2007)

Shivers.


Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...

I'll take this soul that's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know
I've got this light
And the will to show 
I will always be better than before

Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...

La Femme - "Psycho Tropical Berlin" (2013)

Nice enough songs, though not many of them jump to your attention.

• Antitaxi - instrumental, surfy
• La Femme Ressort - strange, nice