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The Werner Herzog Soundtracks

Pulp - This Is Hardcore

...You name the drama and I'll play the part...

Vena Portae – Vena Portae (2014)

Since moving to the UK from Australia, versatile singer-songwriter Emily Barker has written atmospheric themes for Wallander and The Shadow Line, and pioneered a thoughtful, melodic style that eases between Americana and pop-edged alt-folk.

Ty Segall – Manipulator (2014)

... Album of the month ...
... Manipulator... Iron Man...Paranoid ...Sabotage ...Manipulator ...

Before starting work on his new album, Manipulator, Ty Segall had accumulated a bulldozer’s worth of distorted rock ‘n’ roll riffs, amassing ideas while sweating the proverbial 10,000 hours required of an expert craftsman.
Segall spent about a year in Northeast L.A. writing and refining its 17 songs, then locked them into place over a straight month living and recording at the Dock, a Sacramento studio run by producer-engineer Chris Woodhouse. “The idea was to focus more on one thing for a long period of time,” said Segall. “Usually I’ll spend six months writing a record and then I’ll record it. This record I wanted it to be the opposite,”

The Magic Numbers – Alias (2014)

After finding early success with their first single Forever Lost – and the subsequent self-titled debut album – the career of The Magic Numbers has stalled somewhat. While that sounds strange for a band that are now releasing their fourth studio LP, the four-piece comprised of two sets of siblings have never quite managed to rediscover the attention they received when they first burst onto the scene around the mid-2000s.

Liam Betson – The Cover of Hunter (2014)

Liam Betson jams a lot of words into the first album under his own name and one in particular stands out: “Depression.” It’s a big, sticky noun, clinical, embarrassing to say, let alone sing. But he works it into the penultimate song on The Cover of Hunter, “Made From Tin”, naming the illness the “guts and gore” of an allegorical body that’s also tethered by anxiety and whipped by insecurity.
The song, one of the record’s fastest, fills the space between its shaky guitar strokes with patient breaths of clarinet. At the chorus, Betson borrows the vocal lilt Conor Oberst used on the Bright Eyes deep cut “Amy in the White Coat”.

A Quiet Life (Claudio Cupellini, 2010)

A man is faced with a living reminder of his checkered past in this drama from director Claudio Cupellini. Rosario (Toni Servillo) is an Italian expatriate who has settled in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he operates a hotel and restaurant alongside his wife Renate (Juliane Koehler). Rosario and Renate lead a quiet life and that seems to be just the way they like it, but things change when two suspicious-looking men, Diego (Marco D'Amore) and Edoardo (Francesco Di Leva), arrive and Rosario gives them a room.

Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983)

Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri.

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MV & EE – Alpha Lyrae (2014)

Black Tape For A Blue Girl – The Collection – (2014)

Erland & The Carnival – Closing Time (2014)

Baked – Debt (2014)

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Thought Forms / Esben And The Witch – Split LP – (2014)

Chris Schlarb – Making The Saint (2014)

I Am Oak & The Black Atlantic – Black Oak (2014)

J Mascis – Tied to a Star (2014)

David Poe – God & The Girl (2014)

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Astronauts – Hollow Ponds (2014)

After the rip-roaring success of their debut single ‘Skydive’, Astronauts are due to release their album Hollow Ponds on the 21st of this month. This album is essentially a new project from Dan Carney, previously of East London alt-folkers Dark Captain.
 It is named after the section of Epping Forest, in north-east London, a few yards away from the orthopaedic hospital ward which housed him, and which took on an inappropriately mystical quality in his morphine-enhanced mind as he fantasised daily about being able to walk around it, fibula and tibia intact.

Harry and Tonto (Paul Mazursky, 1974)

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Paul Mazursky's brilliant Oscar-winning film about old age, family and love stars Art Carney in his indelible Academy Award-winning performance.
In Paul Mazursky's rueful character drama, 57-year-old Art Carney plays Harry, a 70-plus Manhattan widower who loses his tiny apartment to the wrecking ball. Accompanied by his pet, an aged cat named Tonto, Harry sets out on an odyssey to Los Angeles.By the time he arrives in L.A., Harry has become dispirited by his desultory visits with friends and family, but he eventually realizes that each new day can be a beginning rather than an end

An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, 1978)

 In the most acclaimed performance of her career, Jill Clayburgh stars as Erica, a woman who has it all - until her husband walks out and she is forced to reevaluate her life in Paul Mazursky's comic, touching, and poignant drama of single life in the '70's.
Also starring Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, and Alan Bates.

Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky, 1973)

Decade of the 1970s. Blume and Nina face the same dilemma as the couples in Mazursky's 1969 hit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: how to mesh traditional vows with the new freedom and its temptations. In this case, it takes a divorce to convince the solipsistic Blume that the woman he wants most is his own wife. Considered by some critics one of the decade's best interrogations of contemporary coupledom, Blume in Love astutely captured the absurdity of Blume's self-involved romantic quest, while slyly celebrating the operatic spirit of love that drives him

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)

 ... Vrhunski trash ...
Brit, Candy, Cotty, and Faith have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper "Alien" promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget.

Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)

Life in a middle-class neighborhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighbor's dog. A slice of 'Braziliana', a reflection on history, violence and noise.

Foxygen - How Can You Really

Foxygen - "How Can You Really" from the forthcoming album "Foxygen...And Star Power" out October 14, 2014 on CD/LP/Digital on Jagjaguwar.

Lydia Lunch & Cypress Grove – A Fistful of Desert Blues (2014)

Ethan Johns – The Reckoning (2014)

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Remember Remember – Forgetting the Present (2014)

In the beginning, Remember Remember was essentially just one musician and his loop pedal.
Glasgow based artist Graeme Ronald sculpted vast, swirling loop abstractions, pieces which seemed to have sparkling, magical qualities.
Growing into a full scale band, Remember Remember delivered their self-titled album through Mogwai’s Rock Action imprint back in 2008.

A Cat in Paris (Jean-Loup Felicioli+ Alain Gagnol, 2010)

By day a child's beloved companion... by night, a rooftop-roaming thief! Presenting Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli's captivating new film, from France's most acclaimed animation studio, Folimage. A Cat in Paris is a completely refreshing and unique throwback to the traditional form - every cell of the film has been hand-painted, and its highly stylized, colour-saturated design looks absolutely gorgeous on the big screen. A must-see for animation fans of all ages.

Kauwboy (Boudewijn Koole, 2012)

Jojo, a lively 10-year-old with a difficult home life marked by a volatile father & an absent mother, finds solace in an abandoned baby jackdaw. Through the special friendship he builds with the bird, the wall between him & his father will be brought down.

Spoon – They Want My Soul (2014)

... Primavera 2014...
... Album of the month ...

 Luckily, Britt Daniel’s interim collaboration with Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner, Divine Fits, demonstrated that he hadn’t quite run out of ideas, instead adding a crisp eighties-sounding sheen to the muscular grooves of the band he calls home.They Want My Soul sounds like the best dive bar you’ve ever been to. It’s got the best jukebox, the coolest clientele, and it’ll fight your corner if another album’s giving you grief. If you want it put more plainly, Spoon are exactly the kind of band who don’t give a fuck if they were the ‘Artist of the Decade’. They just make fantastic, intricate albums that sound like they’re not even trying. Spoon are a band with nothing to prove. They Want My Soul proves everything.

United Waters – Sunburner (2014)

... Sivo sumorno nebo ...

The sound of United Waters is rock and roll submerged. The New York trio’s music is H20-logged and woozily off-speed, as if they’ve been playing in the deep end so long their notes and beats have contracted a case of the bends. The resulting effect is simultaneously close and distant. Some individual elements, like the looping guitar riffs and the machinistic drum beats, feel close enough to touch.

Allah-Las – Worship the Sun (2014)

... Cali4nia # 2 ...

California’s Allah-Las seem to make music through a vintage lens, combining elements of ’60s surf, psychedelic, and garage rock into a more updated and accessible package. The band’s members first met while working at their city’s iconic record shop, Amoeba Music, but soon migrated to a nearby basement. After impressing with 2012’s self-titled debut, they’re returning this fall with its follow-up.

The Skygreen Leopards – Family Crimes (2014)

... Cali4nia # 1 ...

When Donovan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson of the Skygreen Leopards sing about love, you don’t have to fear for your heart. The California psyche-pop duo’s latest album, Family Crimes, has a triptych of love songs that are gentle enough to only scratch the surface of melancholy.

A Woman in Berlin (2008)

Hildur Guðnadóttir – Saman (2014)

Barren Harvest – Subtle Cruelties – (2014)