Next Thursday I’ll be opening the Ahleuchatistas tour in Mobile! I’ve got a new Serenity Dagger video and will be improvising on synthesizers with it. Mobile’s own Future Hate will be playing, as well.
The Ahleuchatistas will be playing prog-punk in a new power-trio format featuring an incredible line-up of Shane Parish (fresh off one of my favorite live sets this year with the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, John Zorn, and many others), Danny Piechocki (Jitters, Terms).
1930s Hitchcock playing with one of my favorite genres: The Old Dark House. At the beginning, he goes for it, including much of the comedy traditional to the genre, though it’s quite broad and not all that funny. Hitchcock does the understated stuff better. Great mood with some cool camera ideas and visuals.
Around this time, he used models for certain shots in his films and I was a little bummed since this was all in a house. Until it’s not and then we have a train and bus chase ending at a port and about 70% done with models! Glorious!
AKA She-Wolf. A Polish winter Gothic period piece with elements of folk tales and folk horror. I loved this, but it is slow and the eruptions of horror are brief.
This was the first Herzog film I saw, so it and the soundtrack have magical qualities to me. Maybe the first time I noticed contemporary music and musical techniques played against a period piece. I think the dissociative effect of that choice is something that I came to love.
Early industrial noise pop. Honestly, I don’t know anything about the band, but I found this recording and it keeps getting better the more I listen to it.
A new playlist is live! McClurg’s Musicalia #27: Drinking from the Blood Moon. Go have a sip.
Stephen McClurg 