Although the French composer is credited as the main songwriter on the official soundtrack for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011), Alexandre Desplat's music only accounts for a fraction of the total number of tracks which actually made it into the final edit of the film. The majestic score also includes more …
Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana: Hungry Ghost
American pianist Brad Mehldau and drummer Mark Guiliana have just released Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, a fantastic electric duo recording for the Nonesuch record label. With Brad Mehldau on synthesisers, Fender Rhodes and piano and Mark Guiliana on drums and electronics, the pair generate a strong groove reminiscent of the …
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Zoë Keating: Escape artist
“One-woman avant-garde orchestra” Zoë Keating is a classically trained cellist and electronic artist born in Ontario and now based in California. Exploiting all the melodic, rhythmic and even percussive potential of the cello, the musician also integrates live samples of her own sound with a laptop and a loop station to generate …
Ibrahim Maalouf: Nomade slang
Following up on the more modal and acoustic jazz sound of his 2012 release Wind, Lebanese trumpet player and composer Ibrahim Maalouf returned to the studio with his own live band to record his fifth album Illusions (2013). With the theme of illusion and magic trickery transpiring from the “concept” album, the musician draws a …
Yann Tiersen: Summer 78
Directed by German film-maker Wolfgang Becker and starring Daniel Brühl (Alex) and Katrin Saß (Christiane), Goodbye Lenin! (2003) chronicles of the life of a Berlin family during the pivotal years of the German reunification in 1989-90 with a great mixture of tragedy, humour and satire. Alex’s mother Christiane accidentally …
Yann Tiersen: C’était ici
A surprisingly short composition, French musician Yann Tiersen’s “C’était ici” is a condensed but flamboyant instrumental piece playing like the introduction to a much longer symphony. The track first appeared on Rue des Cascades (1996), a recording which only met with limited success at the time. It is of course the worldwide …