一聽音樂網

電影簡介：亞當（湯姆·希德勒斯頓 Tom Hiddleston 飾）和夏娃（蒂爾達·斯文頓 Tilda Swinton 飾）是一對攜手共同穿越了數百年時光的吸血鬼戀人，從中古走到現代，兩人經歷了人類社會的數度大起大落，目前分居底特律和坦吉爾兩地。
亞當是一名地下音樂人，他厭惡無能又殘暴的人類，將他們稱作“僵尸”，陷入了抑郁的情緒中無法自拔的亞當甚至購買了木質子彈，打起了自行了斷的念頭，得知了戀人的糟糕狀態，夏娃千里迢迢趕到了亞當的身邊。短暫的重逢為亞當帶來了新的希望，但令他感到不快的是，夏娃那臭名昭著的妹妹艾娃（米婭·華?？莆炙箍?Mia Wasikowska 飾）亦闖入了他們的生活之中。艾娃的到來帶來的是災難和詛咒，她不僅殺死了亞當唯一的人類朋友伊蘭（安東·尤金 Anton Yelchin 飾），更將姐姐和姐夫兩人的生活攪得一團糟。
 
Jim Jarmusch是叱吒美國獨立影壇近三十年的性格導演，Jozef Van Wissem則是荷蘭籍的極簡主義作曲家兼琵琶演奏樂手。
 
原不相干的兩人于2006年在紐約結識，氣味相投，開啟了一系列合作計劃。Jarmusch成為導演前曾是電吉他手，活躍于70年代紐約下城的No Wave藝文場景，本身有一定的音樂底子，便與Jozef Van Wissem一同演出，兩人在2012年初聯名發表的專輯《Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity》是從現場表演的經驗延伸而來；《The Mystery Of Heaven》則是聯名出版的第二張作品。
 
熟悉Jarmusch影像風格的人，對專輯內的音樂景色會感到似曾相識，彷彿這六首歌就是Jarmusch那些黑白電影的聽覺化呈現 -- 簡約、催眠，場景與場景間留下大片空間讓人沉思，妙不可言的張力總在最后一小節才被交代清楚，甚至是，絲毫沒有想要交代清楚的意圖。
 
分為兩個版本的〈Etimasia〉絕望而自省，宛如劇中人物的荒涼心田?！碩he More She Burns The More Beautiful She Glows〉是最有戲的十分鐘長篇，這首歌請來女演員Tilda Swinton念白（她也曾于Max Richter的專輯《The Blue Notebooks》念誦卡夫卡的文句），當人聲澹出，Jozef Van Wissem的琵琶與Jarmusch的電吉他便開始合奏。
 
Jarmusch的下一部劇情長片《Only Lovers Left Alive》正由Jozef Van Wissem配樂，Tilda Swinton也參與了演出，或許〈The More She Burns The More Beautiful She Glows〉讓人先嗅到了影片的氣息，據說，那是一部關于吸血鬼的愛情電影。
 
（原文載于《破報》復刊744期）
 
ATP Recordings are proud to announce the release of a limited edition 12" vinyl single, featuring music from the original soundtrack to the new ‘crypto-vampire love story‘ film by Jim Jarmusch, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive‘.
300 COPIES ONLY AVAILABLE FOR EUROPE.
 
according to Mike (Norman Records) on Fri 21 Feb, 2014.
After teasing us with a 12" sampler from this soundtrack, Jarmusch and co finally drop the whole thing on us, and it‘s just as tasty as anticipated. The tracks here are largely collaborations, and they mostly feature Jozef Van Wissem and/or SQURL, with six of the tracks being collaborations between the two, as well as a handful with SQURL on their own, one with Van Wissem solo, and guest appearances from Zola Jesus, Madeline Follin and Yasmine Hamdan. That sounds convoluted on paper, but the record rolls along quite intuitively and you never feel like you‘re listening to such a mishmash of contributors, with Follin‘s ‘Funnel of Love‘ the only feature that really juts out.
 
Largely what we‘ve got here is a mixture of SQURL‘s slow-drifting stoner churn replete with crackling trails of red-hot feedback and of course lots of Van Wissems timeless lute twinkles offsetting them at various points. It‘s a woozy, smoky, earthy sound, like people in a room playing instruments in a slow, dark and atmospheric way. I just listened to it all the way through, despite the fact I still have several reviews to do before the weekly mailout, and I enjoyed it very much.