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David Torn
Lars And The Real Girl
(Milan, 2007)
Avant-garde electronic texturalist pens music-box magic for oddball rubber-doll comedy.
That an indie rom-com about a man's relationship with a sex doll, directed by a TV commercials hack, turned out to be one of the most strangely affecting Hollywood romances of 2007 was only one of the surprises about Lars And The Real Girl. Just as startling was how David Torn, an '80s jazz-fusion guitarist, who also operated as electronic sound-collagist Splattercell, who had recently produced a cinematic space-noir blast of experimental skronk and dreamlike atmospheres entitled Prezens for the ECM label, could also, in his downtime, have created this wistful, dreamlike soundtrack. Processing the warm wheezes, plinks and pianissimos of accordion, piano and clarinet - plus a whistling bloke and a hovering string section - into a dreamlike collage of languid, misty loops, Torn conjured up the kind of magical dwindling state only ever realised in high, hazy summer. As a result, Torn's soundtrack becomes one of those very rare beasts, a suite of music that both enhanced the film it was scored for and works as a thing of beauty in its own right.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 10/11/2009
Further Listening
David Torn – Prezens (ECM, 2007)
Various Artists – Friday Night Lights OST (Universal, 2004)
Manu Katché - Playground (ECM, 2007)
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