Warp Records
2002
Recordings Of Music For Film
About This Album
Coming just under a year after his solo debut, When, Warp's release of Vincent Gallo's Recordings of Music for Film feels less like an attempt to exploit that album's relative success than a way to explore the actor/director/musician's sound more thoroughly. Covering four films and nearly a decade's worth of recordings, the album's breadth and depth -- it spans 29 tracks in just under an hour -- not to mention its music, reflects Gallo's stance as an uncompromising artist in many different forms of media. Not surprisingly, the collection's earliest tracks, for the 1979 film If You Feel Froggy, Jump, are the most difficult; the lo-fi organ stabs of "A** F**ker" and "A** F**ker (Reprise)"'s noisy guitar slashings are clearly inspired by the no wave scene that dominated New York's underground at the time. Similarly, the snippets from Downtown '81's score are still fairly confrontational, though the intricate guitar work on "Me and Her" and the droning "Brown 69" find Gallo's unique style emerging from his influences. His work on 1983's The Way It Is makes up the heart of Recordings of Music for Film, and the score's minimalistic, hypnotic pieces still sound impressively fresh.
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