Books Good For You!

I am pretty old and need young friends to keep current with the latest releases. Basement editor/sound/engineer guy Jay Wolting has been my pipeline to current releases for the past year or so. Jay introduced me to The Books, a group I had heard of before, but had largely ignored.

Because things move very fast these days I tend to resist anything "new" at first. Just a sort of way of maintaining control, I guess. New releases zip by and the most of them are pretty good but the constant stream creates a predictable flow. Pleasant but not particularly exciting. I have to be taken off guard, as it were, by something new.

On a recent trip to Sub-Saharan Africa working on my film, Y Africa (still working on it...2 years and counting) I let my ITunes run on repeat as I was retiring. Many nights I fell asleep to the beautiful, dreamy Panda Bear album, other nights it was Bon Iver or even Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians or Four Tet. Then one night in Burkina Faso, I decided to let The Books' The Lemon of Pink play me off to sleep and I now want to use The Books music for the doc. A masterful use of samples and dialogue from films within a framework of truly beautiful guitar, banjo, violin, voices and found sound. Check out their website below.

http://www.thebooksmusic.com