Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back - Original Film Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Various Artists - Soundtracks - Film Scores | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 31, 2009)
• Original Release Date: March 11, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: ATAVISTIC
• ASIN: B000001B7K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,993 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Scripted as a soundtrack to Braden King and Laura Moya's largely gray-scale documentary Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back, this left-of-tonally flowing music is entrancing. Perhaps like the geography covered in the film, the music eschews jutting events, opting instead for atmospheric stretches of guitar, bass, piano, saxophones, and electronics. With Gastr del Sol vets like David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke playing alongside jazz maverick Ken Vandermark, it's hardly surprising that the music tilts towards the eerie in its nutty calm. Will Oldham makes an appearance on "Ebb's Folly," which comes off as an unshaved, hoarse sea song, touched by postpunk. Vandermark makes great reed billows, emphasizing the somewhat formless shapes and blurred edges this CD has throughout its 70 minutes. For Gastr and Vandermark and Palace and Rick Rizzo fans, this is a winner. For everyone else, it's also a winner. --Andrew Bartlett

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars chicago's finest break the sea with this fine improv session October 27, 1998

By alan kollins [e-mail]

Format:Audio CD

Chicago's underground alternative music scene comes to life in this intense score for this Dutch film. calling themselves "the box head Ensemble" diverse musicans such as Jim o'Rourke, reed player Ken Vandermark and pianist Michael Krasner seemlessly construct a dark and ambient score for a film that this reviewer has not seen but has had many striking images plced into his mind from the music alone. the swirling drones and ambient textures bring the power and unpredicablity of the atlantic to the fore. anyone into the cross polination that is happening in Chicago's ever blossoming music scene must pick this up..it will provide endless insights into a community that has been largely ignored by both the press and mainstream music consumers. anyone with information about how to obtain this film please contact me asap.