Published: August 09, 2019
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne
Cave and Ellis provide fresh angle to scores for films including The Proposition and Hell or High Water
Tension, despair, doom, lunacy and death – not new concepts to the oeuvre of Nick Cave and violinist Warren Ellis. These moods run rich through the Australian musicians’ monumental catalogue of work, whether together in the Bad Seeds or in Ellis’s elemental The Dirty Three.
But Friday night’s world premiere of selections from their 15 years of collaborative film scores, part of the Melbourne International Film festival and backed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, proved a fresh angle – how when masterfully conjuring humanity’s grim interior, you can also have a bit of a laugh.
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