michael nyman

ok so this guy has quite an extensive discography and i really cant be arsed to go through it all, where should i start, what stands out as his best work?

dunno how popular he is here so feel free to recommend any other minimalist pianists/composers

I'm not super familiar with his discography but I love his soundtrack to Gattaca. The Ravenous soundtrack he did with Damon Albarn is good too.

Timelapse

love me some nyman.. check out PROSPERO'S BOOKS and DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT, some extremely cathartic jams

forgot he did gattaca, fucking love that, cheers guys

Piano Concerto is a must have, and obviously his most popular work by a thousand. You have probably heard it from the movie The Piano, but he took it and created a complete concerto out of it. It's really great. It has everything "Nyman", the sax, the piano, the rhythm...

a zed and two noughts makes me feel seasick

a game of two halves is another nice one

some of the tracks from Man On Wire are amazing. Fish Beach is a particular standout

His soundtrack to The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is pretty great. Especially his Memorial track with the terror raunch saxophone.

The Piano is an obvious one but my favorite is the soundtrack to Wonderland (which is also an awesome film, if you can find it anywhere)

  On 8/31/2009 at 1:52 AM, zazen said:

The Piano is an obvious one but my favorite is the soundtrack to Wonderland (which is also an awesome film, if you can find it anywhere)

I saw Wonderland when it first came out, and I can't remember whether I hated it or loved it. I'm pretty sure I liked the score though. Will try and track both down.

Edit: Also a bjorkesque Gina Mckee as is one of the most 90's images I've ever seen.

by 'a game of two halves' above, i obviously meant 'after extra time'

'a game of two halves' was the name of an awesome various tape of triphop on one side and filthy acid techno from the megadog djs on the other side that i once had

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:04 AM, kakapo said:

Edit: Also a bjorkesque Gina Mckee as is one of the most 90's images I've ever seen.

Is that legit? I've been fapping over her since 'Our Friends In The North'.

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:09 AM, Caretstik said:

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:04 AM, kakapo said:

Edit: Also a bjorkesque Gina Mckee as is one of the most 90's images I've ever seen.

Is that legit? I've been fapping over her since 'Our Friends In The North'.

The image is, fapping over her certainly not, as she's a mackem rather than pure bred Geordie.

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:23 AM, kakapo said:

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:09 AM, Caretstik said:

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:04 AM, kakapo said:

Edit: Also a bjorkesque Gina Mckee as is one of the most 90's images I've ever seen.

Is that legit? I've been fapping over her since 'Our Friends In The North'.

 

 

The image is, fapping over her certainly not, as she's a mackem rather than pure bred Geordie.

Now I just feel sullied.

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:04 AM, kakapo said:

I saw Wonderland when it first came out, and I can't remember whether I hated it or loved it. I'm pretty sure I liked the score though. Will try and track both down.

 

Edit: Also a bjorkesque Gina Mckee as is one of the most 90's images I've ever seen.

 

Its a great film, perhaps one of my all time favorites, very naturalistically filmed (using handheld cameras mostly). There are lots of extended scenes with no dialog where the score really comes to the fore. And it captures the spirit of millenium London very well.

It wasn't available on DVD until quite recently (except in Canada for some reason), but amazon have it now:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderland-DVD-Shirley-Henderson/dp/B000CCE20U

  On 9/2/2009 at 5:13 PM, zazen said:

  On 8/31/2009 at 2:04 AM, kakapo said:

I saw Wonderland when it first came out, and I can't remember whether I hated it or loved it. I'm pretty sure I liked the score though. Will try and track both down.

 

Edit: Also a bjorkesque Gina Mckee as is one of the most 90's images I've ever seen.

 

 

Its a great film, perhaps one of my all time favorites, very naturalistically filmed (using handheld cameras mostly). There are lots of extended scenes with no dialog where the score really comes to the fore. And it captures the spirit of millenium London very well.

 

It wasn't available on DVD until quite recently (except in Canada for some reason), but amazon have it now:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderland-DVD-Shirley-Henderson/dp/B000CCE20U

Cheers, I'm going to see if I can pick it up in town tomorrow. Now that I'm actually living in London, I might get more from it. I read some of the reviews on metacritic and was surprised how well received it was in the States, although I doubt it ever showed outside Greenwich village. Also quite a few comparisons to Wong Kar-Wei, which I sort of get, but it goes to show that what can seem 'exotic' or new is often intentionally banal or parochial to a native.