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Dreamland by Joni Mitchell
CP: You have a fire image on the front of Dreamland...
JM: Oh, that's just George W. Bush burning down the world. All my paintings lately have been Bush bonfires. It's the same as the forest fire in Bambi, with the hideous white hunger.
(From the Trailblazer interview by Camille Paglia, August 2005)
Fellow Tsotsi composer Mark Kilian and I have finished composing the score for the new Gavin Hood film Rendition.
The film is being released in the USA on October 19th by New Line and stars Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin. It is a political thriller - produced by Steve Golin ("Babel") and filmed by Dion Beebe ("Chicago").
The score features Arab instruments (such as the duduk, qanon, ney, santur, violin and oud) against a bed of atmospheric strings, pads and drones. There are two featured vocalists - MC Rai and Marissa Steingold - as well as a driving, hybrid electronic/organic percussion element.
Mark and I travelled to Morocco in March 2007, where we recorded a handful of talented local musicians at Wolfgang Funk's studio in Marrakech. In August we recorded a 48-piece string orchestra at the Clint Eastwood Scoring Stage on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank.
Rendition is one of the Gala Presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
THE BIRD CAN'T FLY
Mark Kilian and I have finished composing the music for The Bird Can't Fly - a feature film by Dutch director Threes Anna. Threes Anna is a director/author/visionary who was the creative force behind Dutch theatre phenomenon dogtroep.
The film was shot in South Africa and Namibia in late 2006. The score is an ambient blend of flutes, harmoniums, dulcimers and other interesting ethnic instruments. Mark and I had a great time plucking, blowing, scraping, hitting, strumming and bowing whatever we could get our hands on.
We also featured World Music wind maestro Pedro Eustache on various flutes (including a one-of-a-kind ostrich ocarina!)
Watch this space for more news.
INTO THE LIGHT
I recently composed the music for Into The Light - a documentary that examines the AIDS crisis in Tanzania. I collaborated with the brilliant Kenyan artist Ayub Ogada. The AIDS/HIV epidemic is devastating many countries throughout Africa that are weakened already by poverty and strife.
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Zimbabwe-born composer paw?lee (aka Paul Hepker) has toured/recorded with Johnny Clegg, Shirley Bassey, Ice T and a myriad of beautiful and talented South African artists (Vusi Mahlasela, Vicky Sampson, Marcalex, Yvonne Chaka-Chaka and tons more....) In the mid 90's he had a duo called 'zelig' (with dyna-mite vocalist Gabriel) which came awfully close to signing with Palm Pictures. (Close but no cigar). A classically trained pianist and multi-instrumentalist, paw?lee lived and worked in South Africa as a musical director and composer - doing jingles, musicals and TV shows when not off touring the world. He 'movied' to HoLLYWoOD in 1997, where he now writes for film, TV and stage. In 2005, paw?lee co-composed the score for the Oscar®-winning film "Tsotsi" with Mark Kilian. together they are composing the score for "Rendition" - Gavin Hood's new film - due for release in late 2007. paw?lee has composed the music for numerous Discovery Channel series - including the wildly popular Alaskan crab-fishing shows: "Deadliest Catch" and "Deadliest Season" and the new, wild, wildlife series "Raw Nature" . He is representeded by ICM Talent in Los Angeles. Check the built in iPod® on the left of this page for an eclectic representation of paw?lee's musical efforts: World Music through Soundtracktronica and neo-Classical tunes going toe-to-toe and shoulder-to-shoulder with good old R 'n B and Pop. The songs that appear here have all been written/co-written and produced/co-produced by paw?lee. Some feature his unique, dorky vocalistics. Apologies for those ones! ;-) peace.love.light.
Inspired by the photos buddies Gavin & Mark took in Morocco with their D200s - I finally took the plunge and updated my camera from the light & simple world of the digital consumer point & shoot to the heavy & complex world of digital SLRs. I am now the proud & stooped (not stoopid!) owner of a Nikon D200 with a fancy 18-200mm Nikon lens.Yeehaw! (Bonus: the new camera recognizes my dusty collection of old Nikon 35mm lenses...)
No doubt you can expect a couple of my early attempts to wend their digital way to the gallery below...
Tsotsi - which won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - is now available in the USA on DVD. The DVD has some great bonus material, not least of which is the inclusion of The Storekeeper, an incredible short film by director Gavin Hood. It also has alternate endings which should be of interest for those who have seen the film already.
For those of you who haven't seen Tsotsi - do yourselves a favour and buy/rent/borrow/steal it! I'm proud of the film, my work in it, and that of my fellow South Africans. (I composed the music for the film along with best friend and partner-in-crime Mark Kilian).
The soundtrack features the unique and incredible voice of Vusi Mahlasela , as well as songs by South African kwaito star Zola.
Click on Tsotsi's eyes to buy the DVD online at Amazon. Even better: go to your nearest Mom 'n Pop video store and get it from there. Actually, come to think of it - is there even such a thing? ;-)
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DEADLIEST CATCH GETS 3 EMMY NOMINATIONS!
The Discovery Channel show "Deadliest Catch" - (for which I compose the music) - just received 3 Emmy nominations: Best Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming - (Multi-Camera Productions); Best Nonfiction Series; Best Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera).
that is sweet, not your rollersituacion, but that you are interested in the mowie, in 30 min i have a meeting with this danish producer/dir, and im nervous, it´s not my style all this blablabla, with the producers, but i do it, or noone do it. and it would help if the want to distribute it here in europe, and if they wont, i myself will just skate around and show the mowie to people who are interested, many people here doesnt know about the 30.ooo people who got killed, it´s important to tell.
Hi Paw?lee, I figured out that your music on the ipod is the perfect background for when I am writing. And I am writing a lot lately. Hope you´re doing fabulous. Any new projects, any new travels?
Walk good, Iris
P.S. Finally got to see RENDITION, but the quality of this (illegal) download was horrible. Will make a new try with a real dvd in one of these days.
you are invited to christiania when ever you want, im there all time, you remember im reporter on a little tvstacion, thats in christiania, thats why always soooo much trouble with the police, you should come soon, the police are getting meaner all time
hehe yep every time the police behave bad i give lemons to the heroes, and im practicing new dancesteps with my skates soo im ready to act, when all the good demonstracions starts, i want the refugees to be welcome here
hey guapo estas disfrutando the spring? im taking a few days break with my family, last week the police were really mean and killed my favourite doogbaby with 3 bambambam how do say what come out the gun? and then at night ofcoourse there were riots and i was lemonnurse, you know i gave lemon for the 8 times we got gas mmm now it´s spring and things will get better besos
thanks paul, no I do't know the new album of michel colombier. the acoustic piano was played by my austrian partner heinke and the e-piano is mine. but he is a keyboarder and he is also a good mixer. please paul I saw you have rendition songs on your myspace player. is the album out ? could I get it in europe already ? peace my friend, wolfgang
Hey Hey!!! Loooooooooong time!! I hope everything is going well your end and your schedule is not frying your brains TOO badly! Things very good this end. Recording album #5, new publisher, had a great tour last fall, Royce Hall alongside Ry Cooder next month, lots of irons in the fire. Any chance of grabbing a coffee? Love and blessings! Ashley
Hey Paul, happy to hear from you !!.....but, you was sick ? killer flu ? must be influenca, right ? Oh man, can imagine how you feel !! Have downloaded a very bad quality, so I haven't seen Rendition yet. What I saw is the first 10-15 minutes, not more. sound quality of the download was terrible too, so I decided to wait until I get a normal version. The only thing I saw and heared is the Trailer. The feb.DVD release is only US I guess ? Europe will be later I think . But, Paul, what about the CD ? Not yet ?
Peace my friend and look to get soon better !!!
Wolfgang
PS. please listen to the final version of "Saharaouis Faith" The song will be played on a London BBC 3 radio show the 18th feb.
Hawaii? Are you planning a new carrer as a surfer?
Christmas with my family was fine. Now I am back in Berlin and I finally got four new projects to work on. So for now 2008 looks promising to me. I wish you also an exciting and fantastic New Year! Keep walking on the bright side of life - Iris
Hi Paw?lee, for some reason RENDITION in the original version was showing for one week only in Berlin and to my shame I missed it. Since I hate watching movies which are synchronised into German, I will have to wait, until the DVD is out. Which means you´ll have to wait for my feedback a little longer. But at least I want to wish you a cozy christmas wherever you are! - Iris
Happy Birthday for the big one... Thought lots of you on Sunday and did try to text your last SA cell number, not sure if you got it though. I hope you had a fabulous day in Africaxx
Yeah, doing pretty good these days :-) How are you? For sure need to come back one day and kick some ass on that table hihi... it will be getting harder and harder the longer I wait - I'm sure that you guys most be quite up to speed by now with that game dammit ;-)
Hello Paw?lee, how´s life treating you? Rendition is out in Germany now. Looking forward to see it somewhen in the next few days. Greetings from icy Berlin - Iris
