MLT Club Member Jürgen
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I don’t know if the Beatles reached the limit of their instruments with this song, but at least they let off a lot of steam.
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To my knowledge, The Knack only produced three albums. The single „My Sharona“ from the first album „Get the Knack“ was a worldwide success. Maybe not a particularly sophisticated song, but a song with which the musicians managed to send themselves and the listeners into ecstasy. Pure fun.
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Talking about „The Trapps“ and Austria I have to remember the famous “Harry-Lime theme” from the British film noir “The Third Man”. It was played by Anton Karas on the zither.
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Hi Jung,
Musicians who push their instruments to the limit? It makes me think of Deep Purple. Ritchie Blackmore on guitar is always a pleasure, but what Jon Lord did with his Hammond organ was impressive.
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Japanese anime films should not go unmentioned. Certainly often unusual for our film and viewing habits, they are very popular in Asia. And some of these films have also become something of a cult here.
“Your Name” received very positive reviews overall. According to box office receipts, “Your Name” was the world’s most successful anime film with more than 382 million US dollars to date. At the same time, “Your Name” is the third most successful domestically produced film in Japan. Many Japanese film composers have created great musical works. The soundtracks for video games such as “Final Fantasy” are particularly legendary.
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…or even the theme song from „Watership down“ for example. Written by Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel. I would like to include these two songs in this collection for the sake of completeness.
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Actually, the many wonderful theme songs that animated movies have given us are missing from this topic. I don’t necessarily think of the countless Disney movies, but I’m especially thinking of films like “The last last Unicorn” ….
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Here’s another pretty interesting contribution on the subject of movies and sound designs. A bit detailed, but quite fascinating.
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A movie is a fantastic show of illusions. Our eyes are shown 24 individual images per second and yet we see a moving image. Just one or two pictures less and the image would stumble. The film music creates expectations and feelings that are not present in the film, but only in ourselves. Even the sound effects that we hear in the film are not what they seem to be. The Houdinis of modern times are Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Luc Besson and Steven Spielberg, to name just a few. Nothing we think to see is what it seems. We know this and yet we watch movies over and over again because we like it when a true master plays on the keyboard of our emotions. For a short time we immerse ourselves in worlds that are magic for our senses, like a fantastic dream, only ending after the credits roll.
An important part of this illusion are the film sound effect. They are essential. And there’s a lot of trickery going on. Anyone who has ever filmed knows this: the original sound is usually unusable. Too much noise: Wind, people talking somewhere, street- or machine noise. The world is loud. It is a remarkable phenomenon: even if you are in a remote place, you will find that the sounds of civilization are close behind you. So you have to help a little with sound effects in post-production. And that brings us to Jack Foley.
Jack Foley was born in 1891. He was the first well-known sound effects artist to develop many sound effects techniques for filmmaking. He is credited with developing a unique method of performing sound effects live and in sync with the picture during post-production of a film. Accordingly, people who work in this profession are called “foley artists”.
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Yes Bud, the zither has an unusual sound and was often used in Alpine folk music. It was developed sometime in the 19th century and was considered a dying instrument. In recent years, however, this unusual instrument seems to be experiencing a renaissance. Especially with young musicians.
I found a short, entertaining documentary about the Zither. English subtitles can be added via the settings menu.
By the way Zither (Zitter) means something like trembling.
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Bud,
Deep Purple was certainly a band that was on top form on stage. The live version of Highway Star is much more dynamic than the studio version on the album „Machine Head“.
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Hi Daryl,
thanks for posting. You are right: Film music is an art form that certainly requires a lot of sensitivity and musical creativity from the composer. It’s always the icing on the cake that sweetens the whole film.
„Good Morning Vietnam“with the unforgettable Robin Williams is well known, but „Sound of music“ doesn’t ring a bell. I once researched why this is so: The Broadway premiere of “Sound of Music” was on November 16, 1959 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York. The first performance with us was in 1982. The memoirs of Augusta Maria Trapp, on whom the musical is based, were already filmed in 1956 under the title “The Trapp Family”. According to Wikipedia, this was one of the most successful German homeland films. This was all long before my time.
Julie Andrews who starred in the 1965 film adaptation, was an impressive singer with a wonderful voice.
Below is the song „Edelweiss“ from the musical, sung by the Trapp great grandchildren.
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For sure, Tom. A gem. „Also sprach Zarathustra“ (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, loosely based on the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I’ve always wondered what message Stanley Kubrick wanted to convey with his movie. Perhaps this is the answer: In his work, Nietzsche thought about the “eternal return“, according to which all events repeat themselves infinitely often. For Nietzsche, this cyclical understanding of time is the basis of the highest affirmation of life. Just like in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, the end is the beginning, and the beginning will not end, but will always start again. A never-ending cycle. Perhaps that’s what Kubrick wanted to tell us with his impressive movie.
Or as soccer coach Sepp Herberger once put it so aptly: “After the game is before the game.” 😄
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Hi Jung,
yes rich and diverse, that’s one of the things I like most about the MLT Club. My musical univers is constantly expanding (like the real universe 😀). That’s great, thank you all.
Also thanks for posting the music clip. I’m certainly not an expert on Bollywood films, but the dance scenes combined with the rhythmic music are always a real feast for the eyes.
The meeting of different cultures often creates a feeling of uncertainty and many things seem strange and peculiar. But if you embark on this adventure, your horizons expand and your perspective on the world changes for the better. Afterwards you are enriched by so many experiences and impressions that you no longer want to miss. If people did this much more often, who knows, maybe there would be less prejudice, violence and wars.
A movie about the clash of different cultures is “Lost in Translation”. The director Sofia Coppola herself lived in Tokyo for many years. Maybe you know this one: Bill Murray plays the aged, alienated and lethargic film star Bob Harris, who has traveled to Tokyo for a whiskey commercial, where he meets the young Charlotte played by Scarlett Johansson, who seems to be just as lost as he is. Both are connected by their insomnia in a foreign city, which, despite the age difference, develops into an unusual friendship and ultimately love. The beautiful film song was written by Roxy Music.
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We just were waiting for you do that, Tom. 😀
How are you doing?