Selmasongs: Dancer In The Dark (2000 Film)
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Performer: Bj?rkPerformer: Catherine Deneuve
Performer: David Morse
Performer: Peter Stormare
Performer: Joel Grey
Performer: Cara Seymour
Performer: Vladica Kostic
Performer: Jean-Marc Barr
Performer: Vincent Paterson
Performer: Siobhan Fallon
Performer: Zeljko Ivanek
Performer: Udo Kier
Performer: Jens Albinus
Performer: Reathel Bean
Performer: Mette Berggreen
Performer: Lars Michael Dinesen
Performer: Katrine Falkenberg
Performer: Michael Flessas
Performer: John Randolph Jones
Performer: Noah Lazarus
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Cvalda
- I've Seen It All
- Scatterheart
- In The Musicals
- 107 Steps
- New World
Free Music Notes for Selmasongs: Dancer In The Dark (2000 Film)
Free Music Review: saddness blows this trumpet
Hit: 5 Stars
The imagery of the film is NOT necessary to enjoy the pain of this LP. You will feel masochistic, but you'll be pleased you cried. Salty tears will heal the wounds created by this LP. The scar is stronger than the tissue that was there before the insult.
Selmasongs: Dancer In The Dark (2000 Film) Poster
Inspired by the film Dancer in the Dark's Broadwayesque emotional sweep, Bj?rk stretches herself with orchestral mood swings and a darker, more experimental palette. The result is the most difficult record she's made since her Sugarcubes days, but a few listens reveal the thrilling heart of a truly multifaceted and immensely brave composer. --Matthew CookeIn Dancer in the Dark, Bj?rk plays Selma, a Czech mother who labors furiously in order to save her son from an inherited disease that will cause blindness. In the midst of all her hardship, the one thing that keeps her spirits up is musicals. Here lies the premise of the Selmasongs EP. The seven tracks sound like something straight out of a Gene Kelly movie but with one major addendum: Bj?rk's wildly imaginative, postmodern songwriting. The movie's theme of fantasy coexisting with urban industrial bleakness is represented in two recurring elements: mechanical friction (expressed rhythmically in the sounds of train tracks, car engines, chains, and even chalk) and dreamy escapism (manifested in enormous orchestral swells of strings, harp, and other fanciful instrumentation). "Cvalda" is typical of the EP's duality. Industrial noise bleeds into Bj?rk's scatting "Clatter! Crash! Clack! Rattle!" then dives head first into a wonderful tap-dancing-on-a tin-roof, big-band cacophony. The EP's showstopper, the rousing "In the Musicals 1 & 2," sounds like it was conducted with a magic wand. Beginning with Aphex Twin-inspired beats bouncing like a ball bearing dribbled hard on pavement, the intricate rhythmic choreography tromps, flits, and changes direction with seamless angularity. These aren't just songs to dance to, these are songs that dance. --Beth Massa
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