Music Reviews

Traffic

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

TVT

The opening 13 tracks of this album are the score from Traffic, a collection of pieces by Cliff Martinez largely consisting of ambient music. “You Two Don’t Like Me” and “The Police Won’t Find Your Car” (which wasn’t actually in the final version of the movie) are predominately hand drums and bass. Once the ambient is done, Wilhelm Kempff performs a Beethoven piano sonata that serves to break up the score and the electronic music that follows. The score doesn’t hold anything you don’t normally find in a movie, but the last five tracks turn it all around. The Morcheeba song is mixed directly into the Fatboy Slim piece, “Give the Po’ Man a Break.” It all comes to a close with the appropriately titled song, “An Ending (Ascent)” by Brian Eno.


Recently on Ink 19...

Zyzzyx Road

Zyzzyx Road

Screen Reviews

Don’t let the stats fool you. Zyzzyx Road may have been the lowest grossing movie in history, but is it worth checking out? Phil Bailey explores the new 4K UHD from Dark Arts Entertainment.

B.B. King

B.B. King

Music Reviews

In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival ( Deep Digs). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Tomie

Tomie

Screen Reviews

The first film based on Junji Ito’s manga, Tomie, makes its US Blu-ray debut from Arrow Video.

J-Horror Rising

J-Horror Rising

Screen Reviews

J-Horror Rising, a curated collection from the late ’90s and early 2000s, spotlights three lesser-known gems from the influential J-Horror movement. Phil Bailey reviews Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman, St. John’s Wort, and Inugami.