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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) is a first independent film by Benh Zeitlin which has garnered unprecedented accolades at film festivals around the world. The film is set in Louisiana, or more precisely in “the bathtub”, an imaginary bayou cut off from the main land by a levee. Seen through the eyes of Hushpuppy, a …
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"Vi skal ikkje sova bort sumarnatta" (We shall not sleep away the summer night) is both an ode to the Nordic summer nights and a love song. It is also one of Norway’s most popular folk songs. It was written by Norwegian poet Aslaug Låstad Lygre (1910 - 1966) and was published as part of her 1948 collection “Eld av steinar”. The …
Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla’s powerful theme “De Ushuaia a la Quiaca” is used to stunning effect at the very end of The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). Based on Ernesto Guevara’s eponymous memoirs and on his companion Alberto Granado’s book "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary", the Walter Salles …
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Swedish Jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson (1964 – 2008) died prematurely five years ago today at the young age of 44. The magnificent "From Gagarin’s point of view" stands out as one of the trio’s most recognizable ballads. It also featured on the trio’s eponymous 1999 recording, their first international breakthrough album to be …
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While American pianist and composer Dustin O’Halloran comes from an indie rock background with his band Devics, he has also released three solo albums to date on the piano - including the live recording Vorleben (2010) - contributed to several film soundtracks and collaborates on an ongoing basis with the post-classical ambient …
Dustin O’Halloran (b. 1971) is a Californian-raised pianist and composer now based in Berlin. Influenced by classical composers like Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Frédéric Chopin amongst others, Dustin O’Halloran is also associated with modern musicians like Arvo Pärt, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nils Frahm or Peter Broderick. …
