Far from Men [Original Soundtrack]

by Warren Ellis, Nick Cave

Overview

This score for director David Oelhoffen's Far from Men (original title Loins Des Homme, starring Viggo Mortensen) comes across as perhaps the most organic and improvisational of all the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis cinematic collaborations to date. The narrative, based on an Albert Camus short story, spends a lot of time in empty landscapes. Ellis created a series of violin loops to use as the basis for various cues, and the pair simply built off of them in the moment, with minimal editing to the originally finished score. Piano, organs, harmoniums, fragmented electric guitar chords in drone tunings, bouzouki, basses, minimal percussion, layered strings played in octaves and effects, and sampled atmospheres -- all seem to emerge gradually from empty space to claim the center of their respective mixes. As a listening experience it is less dramatic, far more moody, filled more with the implication of something just out of earshot that's about to emerge rather than what actually does. That said, it is completely engaging and immersive. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	05/19/2015
Label:	Goliath / Goliath Entertainment
UPC:	5060186927220
Rank:	215343

Tracks

1. Far from Men
2. The Teacher
3. Bloody Cheche
4. Dead Horse
5. Setting Out
6. Mountain Scramble
7. Dust Storm
8. Bandits
9. The March
10. Berzina
11. Farewell at Tinguit
12. No Class today
13. Teacher¿¿¿s Farewell
14. Far from Men, Pt. 2

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nick Cave   Primary Artist,Vibraphone,Pump Organ,Celeste,Piano
Warren Ellis   Primary Artist,Flute (Alto),Mandolin,Violin,Guitar,Viola
Gerard McCann   Cello
Ben Foster   Conductor

Technical Credits

John Prestage   Assistant
Nick Cave   Producer,Composer
Warren Ellis   Producer,Composer,Mixing,Loop
Jake Jackson   Mixing,Producer,Engineer
Gerard McCann   Editing
Ben Foster   Orchestration
Chris Blakes   Assistant