Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: [Neil Young] Dead Man - J.Jarmush

Ieri su La7 hanno dato questo film di un regista stratosferico,
J.Jarmush (Ghost Dog). Colonna sonora affidata a Neil Young!
 
"Neil Young made most of the music for this soundtrack parked in front
of a screen, reacting in real time to the events, dialogue, and
cinematic elements of Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man . 
The story line is based on the adventures of one young William Blake,
who is mistaken for the ecstatic English poet by a Native American
named Nobody. Dialogue consists of poetic exchanges between the two
characters: 
Blake: Maybe we should, ah....What should we do?
Nobody: The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to
learn from the crow.
The disc consists of over 62 minutes of Young's untitled electric
guitar ruminations on the film, with the occasional pump organ,
detuned piano and acoustic guitar. Only a couple of tracks edge toward
recognizable song forms, with repeating chord patterns and melodies
and linear development. Others become chance meta-compositions, as
pulsing echo effects from one phrase or riff set up rhythms that
ground subsequent ideas. 
There is an extemporaneous logic to much of the playing, and Young's
employ of Native American modal and rhythmic traditions gives the
connection to the film some relevance. But as pure music, his thematic
intentions are best ignored. The playing is intuitive and reactive,
not narrative and propulsive, and makes as many connections with his
own body of work than it does with any film he may have been watching
at the moment of creation. While listening, you might find yourself
thinking as much of songs like "The Old Laughing Lady" and "A Man
Needs A Maid" as of the plight of the culturally dislocated characters
in Jarmusch's film. (Disclosure: I haven't seen the film.) 
Young's playing is evocative and understated, textural in the extreme,
and oddly entrancing. As usual, his guitar playing is unique and
singularly identifiable as he descends into spacious, infinite rumbles
beneath, cranky, furtive treble bursts. 
Young's investigations are interrupted at intervals by Johnny Depp
reading two of Blake's poems and scenes from the movie (with a
hilarious turn by Iggy Pop as a campfire philosopher and cook). Some
brief interjections add spice, but the inclusion of entire scenes
(such as a confusing gunfight) is distracting. 
As I listened, I was coincidentally in the perfect state for listening
to Dead Man: exhausted and delirious with fever. The mad mystic poet
and the outcast Indian of the movie live in an unreal, dark and
hallucinatory realm, and Young has conjured an effective sonic
equivalent. It doesn't mean that you'll put it on your mixed tapes,
but consider it as essential as chicken soup and ecstatic poetry." (Ed
Hewitt)
Bye, Gs
 
 

Neil disse a Jarmusch: "Forse non tutti capiranno questo film, ma i fumatori
di cannabis faranno la fila per vederlo....". Et pour cause...:-)
bp
np van morrison - the philosopher's stone

 di cannabis faranno la fila per vederlo....".
hai per caso del tabacco?
--
A
"a lame don't need legs, he needs a wheelchair"

> hai per caso del tabacco?
non fumo(sigarette)...;.)
bp