Here’s my most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. If it isn’t painfully obvious, I recently revisited the 1993 version of The Secret Garden, something I watched obsessively as a kid. This time I was struck by its gorgeous soundtrack, the moody world it lives in, its textural depth, and, as is often the case with my childhood movies, its easy elision of colonialism. This mix is about the pastoral, in the British countryside sense but also seeing the pastoral elsewhere. It’s about the projection and fantasy of exotica, musical migration as a result of colonialism, escapism, and essentialism; and is somewhat of a continuation of this mix. It’s also full of birds, bells, and field recordings, because it’s spring, sort of. You can download an mp3 version here. Thanks for listening!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_alQWvdOUc
can you find this and upload it. by the way Music From Memory should release a Japan 80’s compliation do you think so
Same about the Secret Garden and the re-watch ! Zbiegnew Preisner is amazing, I also love his Trois Coleurs Kieslowski soundtracks.
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A beautiful mix, thank you. The nature sounds add a breathy, cinematic dimension. It’s a dream.
A perfect mix for the spring!
Mecano! This is just perfect!
thank you for this! had a blissful sunny morning!
Damn Jen! I watched this movie a few days ago. Warmed my heart like this beautiful spring we’re having. And immediately ordered the soundtrack. Greets from the sonic gardens of Bavaria.
my girlfriend and I watched this movie over Christmas. (I had thought I’d seen it already, when it came out, but it turns out I’d seen a mid-70s British miniseries adapted from the same book that PBS replayed in the 80s.)
did you notice the opening images are uncannily similar to those of THE BLACK STALLION? beyond that, there are similarities in the dense sound design and rich visual style. it’s all too close to be a coincidence; I can only assume it’s the doings of Francis Ford Coppola, who is infamous for meddling in the films he produces.
btw if you are attracted to English pastoralism, one of the purest and most powerful expressions of it is the Archers’ film A CANTERBURY TALE.