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White Lunar – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
This excellent two-disc compilation features tracks from a number of film projects that Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have worked on together. They include musical passages from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Proposition, The English Surgeon, The Girls Of Phnom Penh and the as yet unreleased film, The Road. There are also a number of tracks that are listed as being from the vault and are I would assume, previously unreleased.
Cave and Ellis share a synchronicity of both compositional and instrumental prowess that serves this material well. The film score passages (more fragments of songs than complete pieces) carry the most emotional impact. The minor key approach and slow fade at the end of most of the film score sections give the tracks an unresolved feel that only adds to their inherent tension. These tracks are also almost universally beautiful and harrowing at the same time.
Having seen most of the films that the soundtrack work comes from, it brought back strong memories of the keys scenes in those films. Music’s ability to elicit a strong emotional response plays heavy in this set. The new tracks also blend in seamlessly with the other material.
Free from the heavily compressed pop song necessity, these are tracks that take advantage of extremely wide dynamics and the distance from whisper soft to screamingly loud is extreme. At loud volumes it will test even the best of equipment and at lower levels the sound will caress your ears like the murmur of angels.
Rob Hudson
www.nick-cave.com/
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