(from what I’ve seen) It’s very difficult to find another film in the last 20 years that can convey such a strong sense of space-time suspension as the one that dominates Lost in Translation.
It will be a perfect aesthetic concept Sofia Coppolait will be the most depersonalizing environment imaginable (mega hotel in Tokyo), they will be an incredible face Bill Murrayor famous ass Scarlett Johansson lying softly on a huge bed… this soundtrack will also be just perfect.
Collect from a huge Brian Reitzellmanages, first of all, to bring back to life (we are talking about 20 years ago, which means long before the triumphant reunion tour and “MBV”) the cult My bloody Valentine and gods Jesus and Mary Chainstrengthen devotion Sofia Coppola For Air AND Phoenixand combine everything with reflections of Japan (both digital, and synthetic, and stylized, and the one that is trying to catch up with Western pop, it doesn’t matter).
The result is exactly that feeling that grabs you by the throat in Japan, that strange and eternal peace between the hyper-modern and the secular, between the most advanced technology and ikebana.
Well, at its core, the Lost in Translation soundtrack seems like an exercise in the art of ikebana: a variety of cut flowers placed to form something larger, yet harmonious. Perhaps, only the use of this technique can fully explain the comparison of thunderous and thundering emotions (“Sometimes” by the author). BIE“Like Honey”, author: Yamk) and mild nightmares (“Alone in Kyoto” by Air) or subtle violence (“Girls” dei Death in Vegas).
Fifteen Moments is a perfect composition, immediately renouncing any desire to extrapolate from these iconic songs (and there are more than one) on pain of completely losing the overall vision.
Discover that there is only one degree of separation between noise and silence, just as there is between calm, boredom and nightmare.
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Publication: September 9, 2003
Type: Shogaze pop dream
Length: 53:48
Labels: Emperor Norton
Tracklist:
“Introduction / Tokyo”
“City Girl” Kevin Shields
“Jockey” Sebastien Tellier
“Tommib” Squarepusher
“Maiden” death in Vegas
“Goodbye” Kevin Shields
“Too Young” Phoenix
Happy ending “Kaze in Atsumeta”
“On the Subway” by Brian Reitzell and Roger J. Manning Jr.
“Ikebana” Kevin Shields
“Sometimes” My Bloody Valentine
“Alone in Kyoto” Air
“Shibuya” Brian Reitzell and Roger J. Manning Jr.
“Are you awake?” Kevin Shields
“Like Honey” Chain of Jesus and Mary
“More Than This” Bill Murray with Roger J. Manning Jr. and Brian Reitzell