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And just in time to promote How the Sky Will Melt for tomorrow + Cat Effekt and the Motern series for Saturday + Automobilux etc, here’s the latest Spectacle Radio on video (without the video). 

Spectacle Radio ep.54 :: 05.13.20 :: What’s buggin’ you Nino?

Motern Media Movie Orchestra - Monsters, Marriage, and Murder in Manchvegas // Ennio Morricone - H2S Main Titles // (Cat Effeckt) // Hal Hartley - Opening credits from Amateur // Bombs Aren’t Cool // J.R. Bookwalter - Left For Dead (The Dead Next Door) // Matthew Wade - (How the Sky Will Melt) // Motern Media Movie Orchestra - Incidental Music #4 (Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You) // David Shea - Enter the Dragon (Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) // (Cat Effekt) // Ran Slavin - Distant Lights (Insomniac City) // Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying (Automobilux) // Patrick McGuinn - End Titles from Desert Spirits // (A Day on GOD Island) // Marc Strange - (Isabel) // (Project Nightmare) // Aleksandr Zatsepin - Planet sheleziaka (Mystery of the Third Planet) // Giullermo Portabales - El Carretero (Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) // (How to Shoot a Crime)
(Alma Punk) // Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia (Double Take) // Strangers in the Night (Kin-Dza-Dza) // Lee Dowell - Black Belt (Teenage Gang Debs) // (Onibaba) // Aleksandr Zatsepin - Following govorun (Mystery of the Third Planet) // Pierre Clementi - menacing opera (Clash)

liner notes:-About half of the tracks in the first block were recorded by the the directors themselves!-This includes Matt Farley’s delightful scores for the films he makes with Charles Roxburgh. Because I’m a little late to this party, I had to feature cuts from two of the films we’ve shown already BUT you can catch two more of their films this Saturday, May 16.-H2S is a totally bizarre and messy film, but Morricone delivers some really notable postmodern dissonance AND a great love theme we’ll get around to playing eventually.-The words in Russian seem to be about running up and down the street.-Bombs Aren’t Cool was a music video film creation of a bunch of Sounth Bronx teens and filmmaker Joan Jubela. From the archives of the XFR Collective, and their Earth Day program-J.R. Bookwalter created his own score for The Dead Next Door on an 80s Amiga. There’s also a great Akron-based new wave band that we’ll include sometime.-Matthew Wade’s scores for his own films are all great, and How the Sky Will Melt is no exception. Catch it this Friday, May 15!-Automobilux is a feature experimental film by Spectacle’s own Garret Linn, and 90s shoegaze great Bowery Electric provided the whole soundtrack. Coming soon.-A Day on GOD Island is essentially a vacation home video by Sogo Ishii, but Balinese landscapes set to gamelan is very soothing.-Northern gothic canadian thriller Isabel features songs written and played by the lead actor.-Mystery of the Third Planet showed in our series on Soviet childrens’ programming a few years ago.-If you missed Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, it’s fortunately streaming free on the director’s site.-How to Shoot a Crime was part of our series of Chris Kraus’ films in early 2013.-Black Belt was an original 60s pop number, with its own dance(!!), from Teenage Gang Debs, which we showed back in April-Clash was our feature presentation following the radio show, kicking off the new show + film format.

(This week’s image is the Magic Wink system from Matthew Wade’s How the Sky Will Melt, the ideal format for experiencing the show)

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Spectacle Radio ep.53 :: 04.27.20 :: Radio on video

Track list:
Walter Schumann - (Night of the Hunter) // School Theme (Pride of Place) // Michael Giles, Jamie Muir, & David Cunningham - Cascade (Ghost Dance) // Psychic TV - The Orchids (The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye) // Francoise Hardy - Tout les Garcons (Attenburg) // Oh Willow Wailey (The Innocents) // I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore (Network) // Curtis Mayfield - Back Against the Wall (Short Eyes) // Wally Badarou - Novella das Novae (Kiss of the Spider Women) // We Often Went Over the Walls (Bambule) // - // Aaron Schimberg - Opening Melody (Chained for Life) // Michael Nyman - Miranda (Prospero’s Books) // Edward Shearmur - The Cement Garden // C. Spencer Yeh - Theme (Chained for Life) // Jens C. Moller (Ozone) // Jan Haflin - Angel Fire (Demon Queen) // Rob Binge - Dead Is Dead // Matthew Jason Walsh - Into the Black (Ozone) // Marc Frederick - Main Titles (Demon Queen) // Odette Springer - Oblivion (Some Nudity Required / Dangerous Touch) // High Plains Heat (What Was the Weather Channel?) // Keith Bliderbeck - Crystal Force // Aaron Schimberg - The Imperfect Is Alive (Chained for Life)

Liner notes:

-In the first half, listen for May Day revolt moods-Cascade, from Ghost Dance, was initially included as reference to the Paris Commune of 1871 which pops up in that film’s web of associations. But then we learned that the wife of Jacques Derrida (who appears in the film), Marguerite Aucouturier, passed away on March 21 from Covid-19 // The next track, The Orchids (which plays over the end credits of Spectacle friend Marie Losier’s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye) was included as tribute to Genesis P-Orridge, who also sadly passed away in March. // Short Eyes, in which Curtis Mayfield both appears and provides the soundtrack, played at Spectacle last summer // There are also a number of singing children. Who knows why? // The first set ends with a song of rebellion from Ulrike Meinhof’s lone screen-writing credit, Bambule (“Riot”) // The second half opens and closes with director Aaron Schimberg’s own compositions from Chained for Life. The film, along with Schimberg’s debut Go Down Death, will be showing at Spectacle next Friday, May 8.-C. Spencer Yeh provided the rest of the score for Chained for Life – you can hear that and a snatch of dialogue mid-set. // Michael Nyman’s theme from The Falls used to close every show in our early days. “Miranda” is from the final film he scored for Peter Greenaway in 1991. // Since this show is the first version of the live audiovisual Spectacle Radio on Video, we played a number of rarely heard synth scores from the peculiar zone of films shot of video. Among those, JR Bookwalter’s Ozone will return to Spectacle as part of a retrospective of four of his films on May 12 & 20. // -High Plains Heat was part of a live remix performance of the first Weather Channel broadcast from the early 80s. Full soundtrack available here until someone at the Weather Channel or Kenny Rogers’ estate makes me take it down: https://rockhyrax.bandcamp.com/album/what-was-the-weather-channel // That’s all. The show returns Wednesday, May 13, at 7pm, at twitch.tv/spectaclenyc

Spectacle Radio is back. Now with live video, but if you missed it, here’s the set in usual radio format.