Originally Released: 1992 Discs: 1 Label: Nonesuch Records (USA) Item Number: 59792702
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Film Works 1986-1990
Film Works 1986-1990 opens with John Zorn's first film score, White and Lazy. In just under ten minutes comes small capsules of instrumental punk, rockabilly, dark ambient, nightclub jazz, until "End Title," with vocals by Arto Lindsay, and soloing by Robert Quine (of Lou Reed's band), who Zorn regards as "a punk guitar genius." Next on the CD comes the music for The Golden Boat, a 1990 Raul Ruiz film. To parallel Ruiz' low budget, B-movie work, Zorn decided against timing out the music, and instead generated as much variety as possible -- from pastoral to pipe organ -- in a one day recording session. Zorn then chopped up the results, applying the discontinuous flow to the film. Certainly, the quirky eclecticism heard here is a telling precursor to later film works such as Film Works, Vol. 7. As a bonus, this volume also includes the 1987 short arrangement of Ennio Morricone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," which was recorded after Zorn was solicited by an advertising agency who had commissioned a reggae band, a string quartet, and a jazz group with the same task. "Main Title" moves in a driving piano-bass ostinato often heard in Ennio Morricone's work; also, it is almost the exact progression as that later heard in Andy Prieboy's scathing "New York Debut of an L.A. Artist (Jazz Crowd)." Getting the full last half hour of this release, the music for She Must Be Seeing Things has more space to develop, resulting in the most impressive and fully realized score, found in this first volume of film works. Although certainly a younger effort, there is a lot of good music on this first film works compilation. It is interesting to hear where Zorn's scores began. And, for what it's worth, this and all of the film works include well laid-out, beautiful liner notes. ~ Joslyn Layne
Down Beat (5/92, p.46) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "..demonstrates for Zorn what he has long claimed for others: that the soundtrack is not peripheral or extraneous, but an art unto itself.."
Category: Rock & Pop Release Date: 03/03/92
Originally Released: 1992 Mono / Stereo: Stereo Discs: 1 Availability: N Studio / Live: Studio Area: USA Is Import: N Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
Film Works, Vol. 2: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill
Film Works, Vol. 6
Film Works, Vol. 5: Tears of Ecstasy
Filmworks I: 1986-1990
Film Works, Vol. 7: Cynical Hysterie Hour
Film Works, Vol. 10: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Film Works, Vol. 11: Under the Wing
Film Works, Vol. 12: Three Documentaries
Film Works, Vol. 13: Invitation to a Suicide
Film Works, Vol. 14: Hiding and Seeking
Filmworks XV: Protocols Of Zion
Film Works, Vol. 4: S&M
Film Works, Vol. 16: Working Man's Death
Film Works, Vol. 17: Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls
Film Works, Vol. 18: The Treatment
Film Works, Vol. 19: The Rain Horse
Film Works, Vol. 20: Sholem Aleichem [PA]
Film Works, Vol. 21: Belle de Nature/Rijksmuseum [PA]
Film Works, Vol. 22: The Last Supper [PA]
Film Works, Vol. 23: El General [PA]
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