On the 20th anniversary of Sigur Rós' album (), the band released a recast 4K video for Untitled #1 (Vaka).
We used to talk about movies with backshake soundtracks, and today we're talking about images that really belong to backshake - post-shake documentaries.
In addition to live live footage, the band's documentary is a window into the band. Many bands will use a DV while touring, or invite a professional photography team to record the journey, or make a special record for a certain album, in which you can learn a lot of the band's thoughts, the background of the band's work or some funny things.
In this issue, E Jun will recommend some post-rocking band documentaries. The selection criteria are approximately:
1. It is not a pure live recording image, and there should be a record of the musician's different states;
2. Not a stream-of-consciousness work, at least one main narrative;
3. Not animation or other non-documentary works;
I will try my best to post the address (B station removal) and the source address, so please respect the copyright. Let's get started.
01 MONO documentary "Journey Through Hell"
Station B: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18W41197FF Tubing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA4OxDMflaA
For the documentary of MONO's ninth album, Requiem For Hell, they return to the home land where the album was recorded - 15 years friend sound engineer Steve Albini in the studio in Chicago, talking about how they met, how Steve Albini ran in with MONO, and the recording process.
"While working on Requiem for Hell, I came across Dante's Divine Comedy, and there was a bumpy but connected road between the two, and the more exhausted the afterlife, hell, purgatory, and heaven depicted in the book, the clearer the relationship became. In the world after death, fame and fortune will be dispersed with the body, but the good memories will continue to give strength in each dimensional transition, and these once cherished things will be chiseled on the soul. ”
02 Documentary "Eight Horses", "After 72 Hours", "100,000 Whys" and so on
"Eight Horses" documentary Station B: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15x411U7om Others can be found on Weibo @Jishuzhai GeekShootJack
There are many anecdotal documentaries, most of which are produced by Ji Shusai as photography, which is of a high standard and is not difficult to find. The most memorable was "After 72 Hours", the band went to Japan to participate in the AH Music Festival and performed in Japan for the first time.
03 Nice to Meet You
Station B: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1jJ411n7j9
Photo by Dong Qi
"Annecia formed in November 2010 as a Chengdu-based back-rock band. They insist on expressing their inner world in a unique way of thinking, expressing a profound description of the world, people, life, and various emotions in a serious, thoughtful musical form. The film features a documentary for the band based on two performances in July and December 2019. " - taken from the introduction
04 Sigur Ros documentary "Heima"
Station B: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Rb411i7HU
Sigur Rós' first official record, with a Douban score of 9.1 points. The film weaves live performances and interviews with the troupe, and poetically records a series of free performances by Sigur Rós in his hometown of Iceland.
05 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra《Come Worry With Us!》
Station B: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cW41157rH
The Silver Mount Zion Orchestra's touring documentary focuses on the story of violinist Jessica Moss and Efrim Menuck, one of the founders of the Black Emperor, as well as their child Ezra.
06 Rumor "What About Seven Thousand Miles"
Station B: https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep407176 Tubing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tqrYief1E
This documentary chronicles a scandalous trip to Nepal in 2016. Seven thousand li is a round-trip mileage from Dalian, China, to Kathmandu, Nepal.
In 2015, when a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, a group of young people who loved music filmed a short film for disaster relief, writing to Rumor hoping to use the band's work as a soundtrack. The following year, he accepted an invitation from a Nepalese friend to attend a public performance in Kathmandu to commemorate the earthquake.
This film is a good interpretation of music regardless of borders, races, rich and poor, honorable and inferior, and music connects one person and another.
07 Slint《Breadcrumb Trail》
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsRpS6XGiOs
Slint disbanded after recording two albums, unexpectedly that their second album would almost usher in a whole new musical style, Backswing, and would have a profound impact on the development of rock music for the next two decades.
Lance Bangs, a well-known American MV director, revisited Louisville with a camera. Through interviews with band members, local music circlers and some of the band's countless admirers (including Steve Albini, James Murphy, etc.), it shows the background of the band members, the local independent music culture, and the behind-the-scenes story of such groundbreaking music born in such a soil.
08 Mogwai《The Recording of Mr. Beast》
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCGES-5KSg
The documentary chronicles the birth of Mogwai's fifth album, Mr Beast, including live footage of a performance in Glasgow on 18 August 2005, and interviews with the band answering questions about themselves and the album.
08 Tortoise《A Day With Tortoise》
Link：https://vimeo.com/channels/promediacine/38946489
Tortoise, formed in Chicago in the 1990s, is one of the iconic Post Rock bands.
They come from different styles of bands, subverting the musical rules, aesthetics and live before them, and have rich live performance experience.
This documentary is a great way to get to know them.
Best wishes.