A Man Full of Days soundtrack

by Steve Holtje

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1.	Job 34 15-16 01:29	buy track
2.	Work Song 03:24	buy track
3.	Hounds 07:22	buy track
4.	Black Crystal Fuck Wolf - Man Dance 1 06:04	buy track
5.	Job's Wife 01:29	buy track
6.	Angels Dance 01:17	buy track
7.	Gymnopedie No. 4 01:30	buy track
8.	First Wound - Girl - Bandage 05:04	buy track
9.	Hunger Artist 06:44	buy track
10.	Wound Amputation 04:18	buy track
11.	Bloodlick 05:59	buy track
12.	Twilight of the Angels 06:18	buy track
13.	Black Crystal Fuck Wolf - Mercury BBQ 01:29	buy track
14.	Gymnopedie No. 5 01:19	buy track
15.	Peckinpah - Saudade No. 14 05:54	buy track
16.	Bloodjill 00:56	buy track
17.	Pondering 01:30	buy track
18.	Trudge - Collapse 01:33	buy track
19.	Levko Revutsky & Vyacheslav Ovchinnikow - Theme from Zemlya (Earth) 05:56	buy track
20.	The Weight of Vexation 01:34	buy track

about

Enrico Rossini Cullen's poetic indie film A Man Full of Days is inspired by the Book of Job (minus the dogma) and the Leatherman, a famous 19th century vagrant. Full of hallucinatory beauty, nightmarish terror, eccentric creativity, and a surreal sense of the supernatural, and sprinkled with groundling humor, it is structured around unpredictable disjunctures and juxtapositions, and demanded a soundtrack that could reflect those many facets while tying them together. Brooklyn composer Steve Holtje's score mixes moody darktronica, classical majesty, and bittersweetly intimate piano pieces, even as his arrangements and production blur the lines between those styles. Brooklyn laptop artist Black Crystal Fuck Wolf also contributes two tracks. Though mostly known for his often abrasive style of drone-noise electronica, artisanally constructed through extreme manipulations of original sonic material warped beyond recognition, he also has an interest in asymmetrical rhythms looped repetitively to mimic beats despite lacking standard metrical qualities. Peckinpah's lyrical "Saudade No. 14" is a favorite of director Enrico Rossini Cullen. Peckinpah is a project of Bruce McKenzie. The climactic scene of the film is an homage to the great 1930 Soviet film Zemlya (Earth), and uses Levko Revutsky and Vyacheslav Ovchinnikow's score from the scene it is based on.

Press Quotes: "... mood, spirituality, and a heaping helping of creepy weirdness...fluidly combining darkwave, electronica, classical and ambient." - S. Victor Aaron/Something Else

"...a definite penchant for the atmospherically ambient. There are a number of electroacoustic movements that set a powerfully inner-directed mood and have nicely realized sound color-texture traits. There are solo piano works that add onto Satie's Gymnopedies in good ways; there are also pieces that utilize some aetherial organ sounds and one that includes a women's chorus. Through it all we have some extraordinarily interesting modern/post-modern mood-tone poetry." - Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

"...haunting soundscapes for a film soundtrack that stands on its own without having to see the movie. Cavernous, yet eerily quiet... nods to the ambient darkness of noise bands like Yen Pox and Blood Box, as well as Erik Satie’s gentle compositions. Sounds rumble from disturbed depths of pained psychosis, building, twirling and churning as they quietly morph in waves of drone, while dreamy piano pieces become skewed lullabies from childhood nightmares. ... Step out of comfort into a dimension of paranoia, fear and psychosis where the angles are wrong and the shadows don’t match." - Chuck Foster/The Big Takeover

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released August 7, 2015

Steve Holtje: piano, organ, electronics. Woman of the New Amsterdam Singers Chamber Chorus: Vocals on track "Job 34:15-16"
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"Man Dance 1"/"Mercury BBQ Pit": Black Crystal Fuck Wolf: sample manipulation, asymmetrical beats
"Saudade No. 14": Bruce McKenzie: piano, electronics
Theme from Zemlya (Earth): Levko Revutsky & Vyacheslav Ovchinnikow

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Steve Holtje Brooklyn, New York

Studied music with Peter Schubert, Max Lifchitz, and Christopher Hatch and piano with Niels Ostbye at Columbia University. Previously soundtracked John Reilly's documentary film Bystander with acoustic compositions. Member of 2 NYC improv bands, Caterpillar Quartet and This Humidity; formerly in '80s post-punk band Karen & the Compulsives. Day job is running legendary outsider label ESP-Disk'. ... more

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