Ben Babbitt: Paris Window (Original Score) - VINYL LP

Ben Babbitt: Paris Window (Original Score) - VINYL LPTitle: Paris Window (Original Score) Artist: Ben Babbitt Label: Not Not Fun Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 767870658013 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2019 08 30 Number of Discs: 1 Director Amanda Kramer's prompts for composer Ben Babbitt's soundtrack to her enigmatic film Paris Window read like magnetic fridge poetry "warped ambient bumper muzak tension" but the results skew closer to some hypnagogic contemporary noir: lulling, low lit, and laced with

Title: Paris Window (Original Score)
Artist: Ben Babbitt
Label: Not Not Fun
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 767870658013
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2019-08-30
Number of Discs: 1

Director Amanda Kramer's prompts for composer Ben Babbitt's soundtrack to her enigmatic film Paris Window read like magnetic fridge poetry - "warped ambient bumper muzak tension" - but the results skew closer to some hypnagogic contemporary noir: lulling, low-lit, and laced with lingering dread. Electronics, strings, and percussion swoon and seethe in heady mirages of dreams and delirium, romance and menace. The narrative it accompanies is equally opaque and out of time: two eccentric siblings psychologically unravel through divergent fixations, one obsessed with the hypnotic infomercials of a mysterious self-help institute while the other falls in love with an ambiguous doppelganger. Babbitt's background scoring experiential video games (Kentucky Route Zero) and collaborating with exploratory songwriters (Angel Olsen, Weyes Blood, Eartheater) is evident in his versatility and finesse, flowing fluidly between minimal and maximal modes. Like all dynamic film music, the pieces weave a story of their own. Serene synthetic swells decay into murmuring television static and eerie vocal fragments; close-mic'd drones turn acidic then claustrophobic, mirroring sleep paralysis transformed into panic. Babbitt builds a window into a surreal world, seen through shadows and smeared, street-lit glass.

Tracks:
1.1 They Love Each Other
1.2 Zwilling 1: Paris Window
1.3 Zwilling 2: An Echo
1.4 Spirit Gate
1.5 Investigation
1.6 Waiting And Watching
1.7 The Landlord
1.8 Sunny’s Party
1.9 Two Yous: The Zwilling Hotline
1.10 Julian And David
1.11 Ready For Your Life

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