MAN
™
MAN ™ music lives in a no man's land between
the genres, somewhere between rock, electronica, jazz and modern composition. As
with all their recordings and live performances, everything here is improvised.
Often being labelled jazz because of the improvising aspect of the music, MAN ™
is just as likely to attract followers of bands such as Tortoise, Keith Jarrett,
Robert Wyatt, Goodspeed You! Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Pierre Bastien, (late)
Talk Talk or Messian.
«Every thing here is matter of breath, appearances, disappearing, privacy
...dense cloud of shades drinking light. » MAN ™
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Bill Frisell Quartet - The High Sign and One Week
With Frisell on acoustic and electric guitars, Kermit Driscoll on basses, and
Joey Baron on percussion and drums, this disc offers a somewhat delirious blend
of experimental jazz to accompany two Buster Keaton films, The High Sign and One
Week. Frisell firmly believes that jazz is the best musical accompaniment to
Keaton's brooding and often intellectual slapstick, but his compositions dare
the listener to impose very modern sounds over comedies from an era associated
more with quaint singsong ballads and playful ragtime. Many not initiated into
jazz esoterica may find Frisell's militantly unmelodic improvisations
anachronistic, distracting, and perhaps even too highbrow for Keaton's
good-natured pop-culture spirit. The musicians may be having fun, but what about
the potential movie audience?
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Curtis Eller
- American Circus
Curtis Eller is New York City's
angriest yodelling banjo player. He started his show business career at the age
of seven as a juggler and acrobat, but has since turned to the banjo because
that's where the money is. Mr. Eller and his band "The American Circus" have
appeared at funerals, horse races, burlesque shows and vaudeville revues. His
biggest musical influences are Buster Keaton, Jimmie Rodgers and Abraham
Lincoln. The new album "Taking Up Serpents Again" proves the band capable of
being recorded magnetically. Song subjects include, but are not limited to snake
handling, Elvis Presley, Coney Island and Amelia Earhart's final flight.
Numerous waltzes, sporadic yodelling and some strong language can be expected.
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Club Foot Orchestra - Buster Keaton's 'Sherlock Jr.'
"...perfecting a
rare art: giving the quirkiest silent films of yesteryear appropriately quirky
musical voices." --Seattle Weekly
"... The often mind-boggling shifts in tempo, meter, and genre reflect the rapid
changes of image and mood in the film itself, but the quick takes also make for
adventurous, turn-on-a-dime, studied, but expressive music in its own right."
--CD Review magazine
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Boister -
Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality
Music written and performed live for a showing of the Buster
Keaton film "Our Hospitality" in Baltimore in 2005, this is a comforting
collection of whimsical and absurd tunes. Boister have always sought the middle
ground between the sad and happy, the future and memory, home and the road. Like
Keaton, they never really let one in on where their sympathies lie. Pick any
song here and you'll find the epic struggle, but standouts include "Sheep May
Graze Safely" "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "Chiam/Home." Every song
Boister have ever written contains more emotional ideas to chew on than most
hymnals, but when they are really on, as in "Homestead(Do You Really Know What
It's Like To Miss New Orleans)" or "War Machine", you are overwhelmed and
comforted. Buster Keaton, like Harold Lloyd was always at his best when he took
risks for the audience, and let us inside enough to know that everything was
going to be alright. Boister also show us that heaven and hell are just opposite
sides of the same bar.
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Jeff Mills - Three Ages soundtracks by Buster Keaton 1923
Incredible edition of jeff mills’ specially commissioned
re-scored soundtrack for the restored reissue of buster keaton’s masterpiece of
silent comedy cinema, including a DVD featuring the restored film in its
entirety (including Mills’ new soundtrack), an extended interview with Mills
about the recording process, a “making of” feature and 6 exclusive video
“remixes”. Also included is the full 50 minute Jeff Mills soundtrack on a
separate cd!! This incredible soundtrack ranges from melodic, layered techno
arrangements to subtle and minimal ballad-like pieces that appropriately treat
each of the film’s “ages” (stone, roman , and present). simply composed, it
guides the viewer in and out of each era, climaxing in an eruptive chase scene.
Amazing package – not to be missed!
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Carl Davis - Buster Keaton: a Hard Act to Follow (1987)
The esteemed conductor and composer Carl Davis has become a
great favorite with Birmingham audiences. We're delighted that he's chosen to
celebrate his 70th birthday here, in the form of a special weekend starring the
three geniuses of silent comedy. Symphony Hall will turn into Birmingham's
largest cinema for the weekend for these spectacular screenings with live
soundtracks provided by the CBSO.
Set in 1830s Kentucky, Our Hospitality charts a bitter feud between warring
clans, the McKays and the Canfields. When John McKay is killed, his widow sends
their one-year old son Willie to her sister in New York to be raised. Twenty
years later, Willie is returning to Kentucky by train when he meets a young lady
and falls in love. On accepting her invitation to meet her family he soon
realizes that she is a Canfield. Virginia's family wants to kill Willie, but
their rigid social code prevents them from doing it while he's a guest in their
home. Once he steps outside, however, it's a different story! The main feature
is preceded by one of Keaton's best 'shorts', his first independent film
following his artistic split from Fatty Arbuckle
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Peltola, Markku - Buster Keaton tarkastaa idän ja lännen
Markku Peltola's
cv is truly impressive. in addition to his cameo appearances with circle and
ektroverde, he plays bass with Finland's premiere folk-punk-art band motelli
skronkle, which he helped form in the mid-'80s. he's also the respected actor
who filled the title role in renowned director Aki
Kaurismki's oscar-nominated mies vailla menneisyytt
(the man without a past; 2002). his second solo cd, Buster
Keaton tarkistaa idn ja lnnen ("buster keaton is
checking out the east and the west"), continues in the cinematic, romantic and
comic vein of its predecessor, 2003's buster keatonin ratsutilalla ("in the
ranch of buster keaton"). gypsy violins and sly acoustic motifs coalesce into
quirky, avant-garde mini-soundtracks that bring to mind everyone from Ennio
Morricone to the penguin cafe orchestra to a wise old
hobo asleep in a boxcar.
Victor Young - Buster Keaton Story, the Omar Khayyam (1957)
During his
20-year Hollywood career, American composer Victor Young wrote the scores to
over 300 films. For the first three decades of his life, he was best known as a
concert violinist. A child prodigy, Young was born in Chicago and raised in
Poland, where he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and made his debut with the
Warsaw Philharmonic. At age 20, Young was appointed musical director of the
Balaban & Katz theater chain, supervising live orchestrations for silent films.
With 1936's Anything Goes, Young launched his career with the Paramount music
department, where he would remain until his death in 1956. Outside of such
Paramount projects as The Light That Failed (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1943), Love Letters (1945), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1953), Young worked
for Columbia (Golden Boy [1939]), Sam Goldwyn (My Foolish Heart [1949]),
Republic (The Quiet Man [1953]), and Mike Todd Sr. (Around the World in 80 Days
[1956]). He earned 20 Oscar nominations during his lifetime, and won for Around
the World in 80 Days. Among the many Victor Young compositions which became
popular hits were "Sweet Sue," "Love Me Tonight," and "Stella by Starlight"
(from 1943's The Uninvited). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Anonymous composer
Original and complete accompaniment soundtrack based on famous traditional
american songs and instrumental music from the Civil War days, and played by a
traditional camera orchestra. 75th Anniversary DeLuxe edition with outer card
sleeve.
BOOKS TRIBUTE
Buster Keaton.
My Wonderful World of Slapstick, 1960.
Rudi Blesh. Keaton, The MacMillan Company, 1966.
David Robinson. Buster Keaton, 1969.
Richard J. Anobile. The Best of Buster, 1976.
Tom Dardis. Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down, 1979.
Keaton, Buster & Samuels, Charles. My Wonderful World Of Slapstick, 1982.
R. Benayoun. The Look of Buster Keaton, 1983.
Walter Kerr. The Silent Clowns, 1990.
Jan Kline. The Complete Films of Buster Keaton, 1994.
Joanna E. Rapf and Gary L. Green. Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography, 1995.
Marion Meade. Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase, 1995.
Robert Knopf. The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton, 1999.
Bengtson, John & Brownlow, Kevin. Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood
Through the Films of Buster Keaton, 1999.
Eleanor Keaton and Jeffrey Vance. Buster Keaton Remembered, 2001.
Charles Wolfe. The Films of Buster Keaton, 2003.
Edward McPherson. Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat, 2005.
James L. Neibaur. Arbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations, 2006.
FILMS
TRIBUTE
The Buster Keaton Story, 1957
The Golden Age of Buster Keaton, 1975
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, 1987
The Art of Buster Keaton, 1995
Buster Keaton and Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle, 2002
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM, 2004
OTHER CINEMATIC TRIBUTES
Here are some
anonymous visuals or musical tributes !!! Have a look...
THEATRE & DANCE & PERFORMANCE
COMPAÑÍA BUSTER KEATON
The esthetics of the Company are directed to a theater of corporal action
and image where the word is not replaced or translated by gestures but it is
simply unnecessary. It breaks of the idea that the body, the face and the
objects of the environment can construct dramatic intelligible situations
without help of the verbal langage.
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