Just watched Isabel, a Canadian horror film by Paul Almond. Not really horror, but creepy in the way Rosemary's Baby is. Bleak late winter Quebec setting -- this is exactly how it looks where I am right now. Geneviève Bujold plays a young woman who returns to the family farm after her mother's death. Weird things start happening... That handsome neighbor eerily resembles her deceased brother. And is her uncle really her uncle? This is on Amazon and I believe Netflix.
Enjoying this slightly ominous looking record at the moment. Actually it's not ominous at all, although perhaps it is a bit surprising at times. One of the things I really like about it is its combination of a futuristic title with quirky medieval sounds. It's made by a man named Enrico Cortese. Some of it sounds a bit Jan Svankmajer with its swirling organs and percussion calisthenics, like a bunch of toys come to life. But then at other times it opens out onto larger vistas of sound, as if you're looking at some awesome ruin in a foreign land. I think of this as a landscape record in the vein of Abstractions of the Industrial North or Francesco de Masi's fantastic India soundtrack. Only Cortese doesn't seem to have any worldly place in mind -- to me the record works as a kind of wordless audio tour to some imaginary future/past. I guess that's how all my favorite library records work in a way.
Oh, and T&T turns three this week! Crazy.
From the Woman's Building in LA, hub of feminist art in the 70s and 80s. Crazily good image bank here.
Hoping to get some music on this blog soon but jesus, something is seriously wrong with my computer. It took me like half an hour to post these photos =(
