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The Border

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Whew, already mid October, so much to do, so little time….

Last Thursday E. and I drove down to Geneva for the latest fanfareduloup ORCHESTRA show: QUEL CINEMA ! Musiques de films qui n’existent pas. The French speaking among you will have understood the title: Music from films that don’t exist, and may I remind you that friend Bill plays in this band.

Eight of the band members wrote original compositions for this theme, Bill among them, which is why a week or so ago he was over a my place so that we could mix a sound track that was part of his piece. Titled The Border, a western with all the form’s musts: endless wind, bells ringing at noon, the gunfight… elements punctuating fast Mexican fiesta styled music before being drenched in rain as the hero ends up singing his despair, homeless in LA; or something along that line, each and all being able to invent their own scenario based on the music, soundtrack and in this case, song.

All in all it was a fun evening, with music for most of the types of movies you can see, adventure, documentary, XXX (among the beasts), manga, mystery, comedy, all that is except horror. Which is too bad, I would imagine that writing music for a horror movie that never made it to the screen would be an interesting challenged to say the least, but that’s not here or there I guess.

Or perhaps the fact that Frankenstein was already on last years agenda….

I’ll see if I can get permission to post parts of the soundtrack, although it would be without the music, unfortunately.

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