mtdw_5: john zorn filmworks: the last supper

das ist überhaupt nicht weihnachtlich gemeint und trotzdem klingt es auf eine strange art festlich.
atmosphärische von einem frauenchor gesungene minimalfiguren plus percussion. das ganze erinnert entfernt an philip glass' oper "einstein on the beach", nur besser.

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"One of the strangest films Zorn has ever scored (and that’s saying a LOT), The Last Supper is a science fiction/art film of wild imagination and style. The brainchild of French director Arno Bouchard, the film combines primal ritual with futuristic fantasy in images reminiscent of David Lynch or Alexandro Jodorowsky at their most bizarre. Drawing upon the world’s first musical instruments (voice and drums), Zorn has created a beautiful and powerful score that simultaneously embraces the sensual and the repellant, the dark and the light, the ancient and the modern."