willow's song from the wickerman appreciation

what a beautiful song. iirc this is (one of) the only soundtracks paul giovanni ever wrote?

here's the original

and here's a fantastic fantastic cover with theremin and max/msp patch and christopher lee samples by spacedog, for people too electronic music for the original

extra points for theremin-controlled timestretching at the start. god i love this cover

Can anyone define Hauntology for me? Is it Derrida's explanation that, at the end of history, man will fall in love with everything from the past? Doesn't it have to do with nostalgia or some shit?

The song is fucking incredible. I saw the Wicker Man when I was way too young to have, and Willow's Song has stayed with me my whole life. It's beautiful and more sexually charged than anything else I've ever heard. There are two recordings aren't there? The one I have is on the longer soundtrack album (the one released on Trunk) and is lifted directly from the film itself.

Also, The Wicker Man (original, obviously) is a fucking brilliant film, probably one of my favourites of all time.

  The Vidiot said:

Can anyone define Hauntology for me? Is it Derrida's explanation that, at the end of history, man will fall in love with everything from the past? Doesn't it have to do with nostalgia or some shit?

According to Hauntology the present exists only because of the respect to the past. After the "end of history" man will orient itself towards the ideas of the past.

That's a really short explanation, I know, but I think it sums up the ideas pretty well.

  The Vidiot said:

Can anyone define Hauntology for me? Is it Derrida's explanation that, at the end of history, man will fall in love with everything from the past? Doesn't it have to do with nostalgia or some shit?

the term in terms of musical genre is only loosely related to derrida's concept.

the best possible thing you can read is an article called haunted audio which appeared in the november 2006 issue of the wire as well as the author, simon reynolds' blog. maybe my ghost box records articles on wiki as well?

key things in hauntology are what people had in the 60s and 70s thought the future would be like, degraded public information films with a vague sense of dread, library music, people wearing suits to announce stuff on the radio, 80s sense of vague cold war dread, the odder end of 60s psych, hp lovecraft and cthulhu and all that jazz, records that you couldn't place an era on if you didn't already know, the bbc radiophonic workshop, and vague dread.

key record labels: trunk records, ghost box, old library music records and shit, stuff that hasn't aged well

key artists: the focus group, ariel pink, belbury poly, boards of canada (to a degree), the advisory circle. hmmm maybe broadcast in places.

basically what the wire define as haunted audio: the past's vision of the future revisited, the present's longing for the past, and mundane life somehow corrupted by the ghosts of earlier times; half the town attending pagan rituals going on in the school gym at solstice. wickerman shit.

Yeah great track. I really like Fire Leap.

jesus i actually just pancaked the wickerman OST (trunk reissue... it's the difference between the original release of the bladerunner OST and the proper one); i lost it in a hdd crash about 8 months ago

this is exactly what i need right now :)

this is geogaddi distilled lol

Corn Riggs.

it just came on *swoon*

i suppose this is a good thread to recommend goblin's suspiria soundtrack in as well.

Willow's Song playing right now.

  ieafs said:

there's this instrumental song i really love from it though... i haven't seen the movie in years though - it's a short descending autoharp scale thing that keeps repeating with a female harmony vocal over it. i've got a tape of it somewhere, but it's a bit of a hassle to record a clip. anyone know what one i mean?

Sounds like 'The Anointing' (as it's listed on the OST, from right near the end).

its always on a mixtape if im making one for somebody. epic song.

  kaen said:

its always on a mixtape if im making one for somebody. epic song.

kaen my man, may your supply of gypsum plasterboard be neverending

  kaini said:

  kaen said:

its always on a mixtape if im making one for somebody. epic song.

 

kaen my man, may your supply of gypsum plasterboard be neverending

INDEED, and for that you lot can have a mix i made a while ago featuring said track and many other delights.

charlie dont surf -

howard shore - welcome to videodrome

global communication - epsilon phase

tangerine dream - wahn

black moth super rainbow - hazy field people

manual - am

bibio - cantalop carousel

animal collective - queen in my pictures

mort garson - planetary motivations (cancer)

marsen jules - yara 01

andrew bird - sovay

pink floyd - shine on you crazy diamond pt1

bob dylan - a hard rain's a-gonna fall (live)

can - mushroom

fairport convention - si tu dois partir

boards of canada - audiotrack 16

ovuca - green ball

my bloody valentine - to here knows when

porn sword tobacco - evans sundown corp

skytree - book of lecan

john fahey - poor boy

gary higgins - windy child

paul giovanni - willow's song

six organs of admittance - this hand

sunburned hand of the man - the twin gates

sunburned hand of the man - haye's acre

jefferson airplane - today

sixto rodriguez - sugarman

the small faces - you need loving

spacemen 3 - che

tortoise - crest

unkle - rabbit in your headlights

the doors - the end

porn sword tobacco is very underrated round these parts.

Love this song + the whole soundtrack + the original Wicker Man movie.

I was watching hostel, and I am not a fan of Eli Roth movies and I heard willows song and I was like nice, maybe I should give this guy more credit. Then I realized it was the Sneaker Pimps song and I was like lol fuck that.

bump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFDhf4XBaI

bump

  On 9/20/2008 at 10:50 PM, Caretstik said:

The song is fucking incredible. I saw the Wicker Man when I was way too young to have, and Willow's Song has stayed with me my whole life. It's beautiful and more sexually charged than anything else I've ever heard.

 

Also, The Wicker Man (original, obviously) is a fucking brilliant film, probably one of my favourites of all time.

We must be kindered spirits. Granted, I wasn't SUPER YOUNG when I saw it, but the impact was lasting, and the OST had a lot to do with it. I had absolutely no idea what this was about when my cuz lent it to me. The opening song though, talking about "Corn Riggs" or whatever ALMOST put me off. I'm glad it didn't.

FUCK THE REMAKE.

I love the naked girl dancing by the door in her bedroom, she caresses that arse around like she wants to properly snap your dick and hurt you, she is so God damn hot though and he wants to fuck her so God damn fucking bad, I'd throw my fucking religion right out the window for that sweaty sweet shop.

Oh and yeah

FUCK THE REMAKE

The original rules so hard!

OF COURSE HOT BRITiSH LADIES FUCKING TOMBSTONES!

what else rules harder?

the festival of the same name (and idea) is awesomes - best fest in the land.

this year's wickerman (burn it on sat night at midnight - this year followed by Utah Saints storming set) feat. Mrs ism in the grey cardy. The book thing this year was all about Rabbie Burns 250th anniversary or summit.

love the original.

hate everything about the cover, including the oh so arty cables all over the floor cos hey we've just set up to do the song live RIGHT HERE!

cunts

sneaksta and george, I'm feeling ya's. I think the sequence with Britt Ekland or her body double or whoever was the first time I ever had a boner. I saw Britt at a geek convention in Birmningham a few years ago. She's well cracking on obv, but I still would've sold my soul to the Flahbulb to have gone balls-deep right there and then. FUCK.

A worthy bump, and FUCK THE REMAKE.