MUAAAHHHHAAAA

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A la question "Trop de bonheur tue-t-il le bonheur?", je serais tentée de répondre... NON, bien sur que NON, triple buse des Balkans!


Voyez plutôt: .

"Neil Hannon, the Irish composer, singer, songwriter, and frontman of pop group The Divine Comedy, lends his ears to the movie's soundtrack. Hannon is no stranger to the moving image, having composed theme tunes for Father Ted, Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd, and sung on soundtracks for 2005's movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and 2006's Doctor Who CD release.

“Wide Open Spaces” sees two thirty-something layabouts who are deep in debt. Then fate intervenes as the luckless twosome decide to help dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard (Owen Roe), create a new landmark in Irish tourism: A Famine Theme Park.

Composing an entire soundtrack was fresh territory for the musician, however. "This is very definitely the first time I have written music for picture," he says. "For Father Ted, I wrote the theme tune and did a few little stings, getting from one scene to another. That's not the same at all - this was a complete departure for me - and I couldn't wait to do it. I've always wanted to do a film."

The task came easy. Hannon ensconced himself in a Dublin studio and bashed out a soundscape over a four day period. His ideas chimed with those of writer Mathews and director Hall: to create something tinged with Eastern Europe: a sonic landscape matching the surreal circus, the merry-go-round mood, of the plot. The result, he says, owes something to Nino Rota, the Italian composer behind Fellini's scores and Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy.

Hannon decided to play all the instruments himself, simply to speed up the process, but simultaneously created the effect of a band by using instruments like the Dobro guitar. "The Dobro is funny, because I'd always thought of it as some sort of country thing - the front cover of Brothers In Arms [Dire Straits]. But it's quite an early 20th Century sound, something you might imagine Woody Guthrie playing. I can imagine it in a small town in Bavaria. I used this amazing organ sound - the effect of an old Roland box, which makes an excellent wobble-wobble - and a 1960's electric harmonium from Italy. Drum samples, bass guitar. No vocals, though. I didn't want to stick that particular oar in."

Hannon, of course, composed the legendary My Lovely Horse song for Father Ted, but he avoided any comic musicality in his soundtrack for Wide Open Spaces. "I can do melancholy; I can do grand romantic passages. Obviously, I've done comedic songs, but that's a very different kettle of fish. I would say my stuff for the film is curious and playful. It's trying to allude to the bizarre, the obtuse vibe of the film, without saying this is bizarre or obtuse. I was reasonably pleased that I achieved the vibe. A lot of it I did in the studio when we were recording - sticking the film on and playing along, then augmenting what I'd played on the piano. I'd never thought of myself as an improv guy before. It bodes well!""

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=>En gros, pour les feignasses qui n'ont pas eu le courage de tout lire: Neil vient de boucler la soundtrack d'un film irlandais, soundtrack que notre homme a non seulement composée, mais pour laquelle il a également joué tous les instruments! Respect total, vieux.

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3 CD's en un an... J'suis VERNIE les gars, VER-NIE! Yep.

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