Synecdoche, New York
Jon Brion and many more
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The
nicest thing about opening up and listening to a new score by
Jon
Brion is the glee of surprise you are sure to find. Sure,
you will know instantly it’s Brion by the whimsical arrangements
strung together with his obvious talent. Yet, the music is always
a new adventure. Unpredictable.
Here,
for writer extraordinaire Charlie Kaufman (yes, THAT Charlie Kaufman’s)
directorial debut, Brion brings us two contrasting achievements.
He blends the patented Brionesque whimsies aside downright solemn
yearnings. Each end of the scale are performed and delivered in
sublime elegantly simple compositions.
I
began to raise an eyebrow as I played the first track. I quickly
grabbed the cd cover to see, 'What could this be?' Alas, the music
is appropriately called, "Tacky Entrance Music." I burst
into laughter and decided to stop wondering and just set in to
wander.
Brion’s
brought in a battalion of musicians. Yet the notes seem so “simple”
you’d swear it was just he and a Tascam in some Silver Lake
nesting den filled with an array of celli, obo and the like. The
film has been described by scribe and director as “creepy.”
So the notes are a-spicy-tomato Brion’s tuned right in to
the soul of the film…once again.
Dear
Jon also throws in a couple vocals – not by him
however. The sultry sad sway of notes are delivered by DeAnna
Storey. Nice nice voice…cool cool tunes. The only thing
is – and this is taste and knit picky really – the
two songs are in a row, and seem too similar. Odd placement no
matter how swell they be if you be askin’ me.
Musical
order decisions aside, this is a darker Brion collection of controlled
angst. The angst being the common thread in all the adorable and
wildly eccentric being's work. But SNY is a tad subtle and a pinch
melancholy with just enough of that Brion fairy dust to remind
you why he is one of our greatest living musical purveyors.
1. Tacky Entrance
Music
2. DMI Thing From When She Was The Kitchen
3. All Plays Out (Fire Sale Version)
4. DMI Thing In Which New Information Is Introduced
5. Forward Motion
6. Something You Can't Return To
7. Sex Based Decision Making
8. Piano One
9. Someone Else's Forward Motion (Posing As Your Own)
10. DMI We Meet Again?
11. Still Can't Return (Still Trying)
12. Piano Two
13. OK
14. Can't Return (For The Last Time)
15. Piano Three
16. Transposition
17. Little Person
18. Song For Caden
19. Schenectady
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