Reading about your upcoming release of ‘Butterfly’. Of course it’ll be beautiful and successful.
Thinking about haunting music. With movies—it’s always bigger, better, faster, stronger. Partly, because it takes more work to craft a story without spectacle, of one form or another. Not to diminish the subtle and mundane it’s just harder to keep the cynics interested in it, therefore the writer and director and editor have to jump through hoops to make it successful.
It occurred to me that I’ve never heard a spectacularly haunting piece of music. I’ve heard some of Nico’s music, dark. I’m a huge fan of Siouxsie and the Banshee’s, but I wouldn’t describe it as spectacularly haunting.
The Dave Matthew’s Band—Halloween. Brilliantly disturbing. Haunting though? It’s seems more in the vein of that Nick Cave CD about murder. The silent movie villain ties the damsel to the train tracks; in the distance the belching train speeds her doom.
Opera? Some of it’s truly haunting. So I guess I should have said, “I’ve never heard any spectacularly haunting modern music.”
Something else occurred to me, if it exists maybe I’ve never heard it because it had the popularity of opera? (I happen to love opera, but you know what i mean. It’s not exactly Billboard 100 material.)
I’ve suddenly realized that maybe this posting would be lucky to have the popularity of opera. Everyone can relax, it’ll be my last for a while. My life beckons.
Best wishes.