(2023) Earth - Even Hell has its Heroes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Review:
63-minutes of new Earth music composed for the upcoming feature film, ‘Even Hell has its Heroes’. It took almost three years longer than expected, but Northwest filmmaker and musician Clyde Petersen has finished Even Hell Has Its Heroes, a 108-minute documentary about the innovative Seattle rock group Earth. The world’s inundated with docs about musicians, but Petersen’s opus avoids overfamiliar tropes of the art form and captures the majestic and enigmatic essence of this Pacific Northwest institution with an approach that’s as oblique as Earth’s music, plus a few moments of levity among the compelling gravity of Earth’s conflict-riddled story. Eschewing talking heads and cameo commentary from high-profile music-biz personalities, Petersen — who’s also directed the short film Torrey Pines — instead interviews nearly everyone who’s played, produced, and released Earth’s heavy and cinematic music. The interviews are invariably interesting and sometimes revelatory, and yes, Earth leader Dylan Carlson talks about his friendship with Kurt Cobain. Petersen cleverly portrays each musician’s idiosyncrasies through the settings and actions of their Q&A sessions. What makes Even Hell unique is that Petersen arranged for each musician he interviewed to compose a piece for the soundtrack, and then uses said piece to score their segment. —
thestranger.com
Track List:
01 - omage 1 the unbearable weight of history
02 - omage 2 stoney bone child
03 - 16 tracks and not gonna make it home tonight
04 - is anyone out there
05 - the dark and bloody ground
06 - queen anne's revenge
07 - no ponderable fire
08 - fire
09 - the bees made honey in the lion’s skull
10 - rocker
11 - wind
12 - this bitter glory
13 - the bees made honey in the lion’s skull
14 - bear flag rising
15 - a glorious defeat
16 - thunder
Media Report:
Genre: post-rock, psychedelic rock
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)
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