"This bitter earth/On the nature of daylight" is the song that concludes Martin Scorsese’s 2010 psychological thriller Shutter Island. None of the music for the film’s soundtrack was actually composed for the film but it was (expertly) curated by musician and long-time collaborator Robbie Robertson, whom Martin Scorsese ... [Continue Reading]
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Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento Della Ninfa
L'Arpeggiata Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer in the late Renaissance whose innovative compositions led to the birth of opera as a new style of music. In addition to early operas and church music, Monteverdi published nine books of Madrigals, or Renaissance love poems sung and arranged for several ... [Continue Reading]
Ane Brun: The dancer
Ane Brun is a Norwegian singer and songwriter based in Sweden since 2001. Since the international release of her début album in 2003, the singer has been charming audiences worldwide with her distinctive and almost theatrical voice. Ane Brun is also without question an incredibly gifted artist when it comes to covering songs. ... [Continue Reading]
Lisa Hannigan: Knots
The acoustic version "Knots" comes from Irish singer Lisa Hannigan's second album Passenger released in 2011 and this intimate acoustic performance of the song as part of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts really brings to the fore the singer's warm voice and talent. As soon as her turn to perform arrived, Hannigan hopped up, barely ... [Continue Reading]
Lisa Hannigan: Pistachio
Lisa Hannigan is an Irish indie folk singer and songwriter who started her musical career in 2002 as the musical partner of Damien Rice. But since going solo in 2007, she has grown into a very original and successful independent artist. Released on her own label, her first solo album Sea Sew (2008) was literally handmade, with ... [Continue Reading]
Jeanne Balibar & Rodolphe Burger: Le tour du monde
Jeanne Balibar is a French stage actress who has also featured in over 40 art house and independent films by directors such as Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas or Arnaud Desplechin since the beginning of the 1990s. A chance meeting with musician and singer Rodolphe Burger in 1999 sparked the start of a fruitful musical ... [Continue Reading]
Julie Delpy: A waltz for a night
Before Sunset (2004) is an independent American film by Richard Linklater starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. Both actors have also co-written the scenario. Having met nine years previously as students on a train journey between Budapest and Vienna but without exchanging addresses or phone numbers (see the 1995 ... [Continue Reading]