Department of Corrections: Bulgarian vs Gregorian Chants
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Our loyal readers over at Homo Ridiculus heard our clarion call requesting more information behind Werner Herzog’s Encounters and the End of the World soundtrack and managed to slake our curiosity with a surprising lesson in Bulgarian vs. Gregorian chants. It seems that we have been mistakenly identifying the two (sorry chant lovers!). If you don’t know the difference, apparently it has something to do with being part of the monastic circle, having the male chromosomes, and being in the correct geographical region. As a form of apology, we are presenting you here with a track we think appeared in the film (keep sending us your tips!) and some intense Bulgarian choir song with an impressive “41 voices instead of the normal 20-something.”
Sample “Listini Se Goro” by The Bulgarian Voices – Angelite here
Download: The Beginning and the End” composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and performed by the Great Bulgarian Voices choir
Werner Herzog’s Film Scorer Dudes Inhabit Ill Braincaves
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This Saturday, a posse of FADERonis tried to enjoy the Siren Festival on Coney Island, only to be scorched crispy like so much bacon before the third band even got popping. After downing 15 thirty-two-dollar churros and pretending we like Coors Light, we decided to hoof it back to North Brooklyn, where civilization affords us such priceless amenities as “air conditioning” and “Pinkberry” and “microbrews” (just kidding we hate microbrews). Back in Fort Greene, we decided to see Werner Herzog’s latest documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, because it is about Antarctica and perhaps we’d stop sweating from our upper lip by osmosis. And lo! We forgot Werner Herzog is such a funny, dry dude. The film was amazing, the score even better. Imagine crystalline images of frozen ocean and the gelatinous lava-lampitude of giant jellyfish, accompanied by Indonesian scales, Gregorian chants, and the odd Martian sounds that sea lions make in the water (imagine late ’90s Underworld interpreted by Metro Area, only it is the REAL-LIFE VOICE OF A SUBARCTIC PINNIPED). Henry Kaiser and David Lindley are the composers responsible for these airy spirituals; they also did work for Herzog’s bear-meets-man tragicomedy Grizzly Man. It’s some of the best cinematic music synergy we’ve experienced since Grease 2. We are dying for the soundtrack, which apparently exists, only not on the internet. If you can help, please email info@thefader.com.
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posted on Jul 21, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS tags Encounters at the End of the World, experimental, Werner Herzog
Video: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
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NY Magazine has posted, in two parts, Les Blank’s short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. All of the pertinent information about why and how Herzog eats his shoe (he really eats it!) so go there and read it and then watch the short film they have so lovingly posted But here, on theFADER.com (after the jump) we will give you three haikus about the film, choose your favorite:
Video: Werner Herzog’s Encounters At The End Of The World Trailer
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It goes without saying that any film made by Werner Herzog deserves a look, especially his bizarre deadpan documentaries like Little Dieter Needs To Fly and The White Diamond, both of which played during the Herzog: [Non] Fiction Series this and last month at the Film Forum in New York, now sadly over. But still showing is Herzog’s new doc Encounters at the End of the World. Encounters is about Antarctica and basically how that place is really really weird and kind of like outer space. Based on the trailer, we imagine there will be lots of shots of vaguely creepy underwater things scuttling around as well as rugged dudes with ice in their beards chipping holes in ice and then scuba diving into them. The film is playing through June 24th, so hit Film Forum up before then and you’ll probably hear us in the back row being like, Duuuuuddeeee did you see that starfish? That was crazy! Seriously, did you see it? It’s cool, you can tell us to be quiet.
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posted on Jun 19, 2008 in ART+CULTURE NEWS tags mindblowing, Oh Shit Did You See That Starfish, Werner Herzog
