Mick Harvey - celebrated arranger, multi-instrumentalist, producer, film soundtrack composer and co-founder of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party - releases his second compilation of film music.
This new compilation offers music from a wide spectrum of international productions including documentaries, short films and features.
1. Two Guitars - from Lighting Fires (1994)
2. At Neville?s Gate - from Chopper (2000)
3. Cicaders - from Sparrow (1996)
4. Homecoming - from Sparrow (1996)
5. By The River - from Rien Ne Vas Plus (2005)
6. Face to Face - from Rien Ne Vas Plus (2005)
7. Reuniting - from Rien Ne Vas Plus (2005)
8. Finale - from Rien Ne Vas Plus (2005)
9. Main Theme - from Chopper (2000)
10. Three Guitars - from Lighting Fires (1994)
11. Noises/Fire - from Lighting Fires (1994)
12. Piano Theme - from Lighting Fires (1994)
13. Setting Sail - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
14. Antarctica - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
15. Things Going Wrong - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
16. The Man Who Made Pictures - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
17. In The Wars - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
18. Papua/New Guinea - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
19. Things Going Wrong Again - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
20. Back in Australia - from Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004)
21. Chimes - from Rosehill (2002)
22. End Titles - from Rosehill (2002)
23. The Stabbing - from Chopper (2000)
24. In The Bar - from Go For Gold (1997)
25. The Polish Market - from Go For Gold (1997)
26. In the Bar Again - from Go For Gold (1997)
27. The Farewell Song - (co-written and sung by Nick Cave) from Go For Gold (1997)
Since the late 1970's, Harvey has enjoyed a highly successful career as a musical collaborator with singer/songwriter Nick Cave. Through their bands The Boys Next door, the explosive The Birthday Party, the formation of Cave's Bad Seeds, right up to last year's triumphal two CD set Abattoir Blues/The lyre Of Orpheus, Harvey has provided invaluable assistance in helping realise the singer's utterly distinctive vision on record and stage.
Concurrently with his work in the Bad Seeds, over the past 21 years Mick Harvey has made time to forge his own creative path. In the mid 1980's he formed the band Crime And The City Solution, with whom he recorded six LP's until the group disbanded in 1991. Mick Harvey played drums, guitar and backing vocals on Conway Savage's eponymous first EP, then produced and played on two albums by chanteuse Anita Lane, Dirty Sings (1993) and Sex O'Clock (2001). In 1992 he produced Once Upon A Time's LP In The Blink Of An Eye and the following year, with Ed Clayton-Jones, Harvey created music for an Australian theatrical production of Nick Cave's novel, And The Ass Saw The Angel.
Harvey was a featured player with P.J. Harvey, contributing to her albums To Bring You My Love (1995) and Is This Desire? (1998). In 2002 he co-produced P.J. Harvey's Mercury Music Prize winning LP, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.
Together with Cave and fellow Bad Seed Blixa Bargeld, Harvey scored two John Hillcoat films, Ghosts...Of The Civil Dead (1988) and To Have And To Hold (1996). He would also release a compilation of his other film scores from the 1980's, Alta Marea and Vaterland (1993). He would later receive much critical acclaim for his scores for two Australian films, Andrew Dominik's Chopper (2000) and Paul Goldman's Australian Rules (2002) for which he won Best Original Soundtrack for Film and Television at the prestigious Australian Recording Industry Association awards (ARIAS).
In the mid 1990's Mick Harvey also produced, arranged, translated, played and sang thttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifwo albums of songs by the great decadent French songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg - Intoxicated man (1995) and Pink Elephants (1997). These records garnered much praise, including from Gainsbourg's muse, partner and musical collaborator, Jane Birkin. Harvey believes that these previous eminent Gainsbourg records are very different from the One Man's Treasure collection. "This really feels like my first solo album... because it's so personal," opines Harvey. "If you wanted to put it in black and white, the Gainsbourg albums were more of an intellectual exercise and this is more of an emotional exercise. There isn't a lot of premeditation behind this record at all. It's meant to be very unpretentious, in a way."
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