Loin Des Hommes

ニック・ケイヴとウォーレン・エリスがフランス映画『Loin des hommes(Far From Men)』のサウンドトラック音楽を手がけた!映画の舞台となったのは1954年のアルジェリア。教師のダルが、殺人の疑いがかけられたモハマッドを近くの刑務所まで引率する過程で生まれる二人の友情と結束の話。

Clash (Magazine) - "It's the pair's most experimental soundtrack to date, one that seems to have been composed in a late night haze - but all the better for it....Grab some headphones and enjoy the ride."

This score for director David Oelhoffen's Far from Men (original title Loins Des Homme, starring Viggo Mortensen) comes across as perhaps the most organic and improvisational of all the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis cinematic collaborations to date. The narrative, based on an Albert Camus short story, spends a lot of time in empty landscapes. Ellis created a series of violin loops to use as the basis for various cues, and the pair simply built off of them in the moment, with minimal editing to the originally finished score. Piano, organs, harmoniums, fragmented electric guitar chords in drone tunings, bouzouki, basses, minimal percussion, layered strings played in octaves and effects, and sampled atmospheres -- all seem to emerge gradually from empty space to claim the center of their respective mixes. As a listening experience it is less dramatic, far more moody, filled more with the implication of something just out of earshot that's about to emerge rather than what actually does. That said, it is completely engaging and immersive. ~ Thom Jurek

アルベール・カミュの短編をもとに、劇場用長編第2作となるダヴィド・オロファン監督が描く人間の尊厳。54年アルジェリア戦争時、戦犯護送を命じられた、元兵士の教師とその戦犯のロードムーヴィー。音楽は、彼らのスコアの寂寥感は随一のニック・ケイヴとウォーレン・エリス。さまざまな音色の楽器を用いて、音空間として表現するドラマのスコアを展開。音の砂埃の中に聴こえてくる悲しげな旋律は、重く聴くものの感覚に落とされていく。 (C)馬場敏裕