Track list:
Walter Schumann - (Night of the Hunter) // School Theme (Pride of Place) // Michael Giles, Jamie Muir, & David Cunningham - Cascade (Ghost Dance) // Psychic TV - The Orchids (The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye) // Francoise Hardy - Tout les Garcons (Attenburg) // Oh Willow Wailey (The Innocents) // I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore (Network) // Curtis Mayfield - Back Against the Wall (Short Eyes) // Wally Badarou - Novella das Novae (Kiss of the Spider Women) // We Often Went Over the Walls (Bambule) // - // Aaron Schimberg - Opening Melody (Chained for Life) // Michael Nyman - Miranda (Prospero's Books) // Edward Shearmur - The Cement Garden // C. Spencer Yeh - Theme (Chained for Life) // Jens C. Moller (Ozone) // Jan Haflin - Angel Fire (Demon Queen) // Rob Binge - Dead Is Dead // Matthew Jason Walsh - Into the Black (Ozone) // Marc Frederick - Main Titles (Demon Queen) // Odette Springer - Oblivion (Some Nudity Required / Dangerous Touch) // High Plains Heat (What Was the Weather Channel?) // Keith Bliderbeck - Crystal Force // Aaron Schimberg - The Imperfect Is Alive (Chained for Life)
Liner notes:
-In the first half, listen for May Day revolt moods-Cascade, from Ghost Dance, was initially included as reference to the Paris Commune of 1871 which pops up in that film's web of associations. But then we learned that the wife of Jacques Derrida (who appears in the film), Marguerite Aucouturier, passed away on March 21 from Covid-19 // The next track, The Orchids (which plays over the end credits of Spectacle friend Marie Losier's The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye) was included as tribute to Genesis P-Orridge, who also sadly passed away in March. // Short Eyes, in which Curtis Mayfield both appears and provides the soundtrack, played at Spectacle last summer // There are also a number of singing children. Who knows why? // The first set ends with a song of rebellion from Ulrike Meinhof's lone screen-writing credit, Bambule ("Riot") // The second half opens and closes with director Aaron Schimberg's own compositions from Chained for Life. The film, along with Schimberg's debut Go Down Death, will be showing at Spectacle next Friday, May 8.-C. Spencer Yeh provided the rest of the score for Chained for Life -- you can hear that and a snatch of dialogue mid-set. // Michael Nyman's theme from The Falls used to close every show in our early days. "Miranda" is from the final film he scored for Peter Greenaway in 1991. // Since this show is the first version of the live audiovisual Spectacle Radio on Video, we played a number of rarely heard synth scores from the peculiar zone of films shot of video. Among those, JR Bookwalter's Ozone will return to Spectacle as part of a retrospective of four of his films on May 12 & 20. // -High Plains Heat was part of a live remix performance of the first Weather Channel broadcast from the early 80s. Full soundtrack available here until someone at the Weather Channel or Kenny Rogers' estate makes me take it down: https://rockhyrax.bandcamp.com/album/what-was-the-weather-channel // That's all. The show returns Wednesday, May 13, at 7pm, at twitch.tv/spectaclenyc
