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Post by mimmihopps on Apr 4, 2016 12:41:41 GMT -5
I got into them with "The Hawk Is Howling" and they never disappoint me, but this new album is a masterpiece. Listen to this opening track.
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Post by carlober on Apr 4, 2016 14:29:41 GMT -5
I listened to it last week (it leaked a few days early and I couldn't resist  ). It's really, really good! I'm gonna watch the documentary "Atomic - Living in Dread and Promise" too (the album is actually a soundtrack to the documentary) as I'm really interested in everything nuclear/atomic-related. |
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Post by mimmihopps on Apr 5, 2016 1:01:10 GMT -5
Are you going to see them playing the soundtrack live too, carlober? I'm really looking forward to it. Mogwai always fascinates me and this album isn't just an album. |
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Post by carlober on Apr 5, 2016 3:21:39 GMT -5
Unfortunately they haven't got a date planned for Italy at the moment.
I missed them when they came to Milan two years ago, but a friend of mine went to the gig and told me it was totally amazing!
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Post by carlober on May 10, 2016 4:01:31 GMT -5
So, I finally watched the documentary. Actually it's not really a documentary in the traditional meaning of the word: there are no interviews, voice-overs and things like that. It's an evocative flow of images and scenes without any external comment (well, bar Mogwai's score which is incredibly good and fitting). Clearly it's heavily inspired by Koyaanisqatsi and Godfrey Reggio's works. On the other hand, you could see it as a brilliant 1-hour long music video for the album Here's the whole thing on Youtube: |
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Post by mimmihopps on May 10, 2016 5:07:03 GMT -5
So, I finally watched the documentary. Actually it's not really a documentary in the traditional meaning of the word: there are no interviews, voice-overs and things like that. It's an evocative flow of images and scenes without any external comment (well, bar Mogwai's score which is incredibly good and fitting). Clearly it's heavily inspired by Koyaanisqatsi and Godfrey Reggio's works. On the other hand, you could see it as a brilliant 1-hour long music video for the album Here's the whole thing on Youtube: With respect I ignore and refuse to watch it as I'm going to see them playing Atomic live next month, carlober! |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 9, 2016 1:27:27 GMT -5
Human being have a knack of finding the abyss. “There will be blood”. They say, but in Hiroshima and Nagasaki there wasn’t blood, because the heat was so intense that blood evaporated. Instead, there were the dead. Nearly a quarter of a million of them.
Hiroshima was the obscene clang of the atomic age, but as well as the abyss age had harmonics too, Einstein said that we live in four dimensions.
It would be great if we even lived in human dimensions. Is that too much to ask? That the brilliance of the atomic world. And the human brain. And the human heart would together allow us to advance rather than retreat? That the extraordinary power in matter won’t be monetized and industrialised?
You’ll hear such hope in this brilliant music by Mogwai, but you’ll hear the abyss too. Paradise and it’s loss.
And to the people who repeat the obscene argument that we still heed the 15,700 nuclear warheads that currently exist on earth, we say – thanks for nothing, for your lack of imagination or hope.
Mark Cousins 2015 (maker of “Atomic: Living in Dead and Promise”)
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 12, 2016 5:27:46 GMT -5
Saw Mogwai playing Atomic live at Holland Festival last night. There was an introducing by Mark Cousins (film maker) and Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) before the show too. It was very interesting. The film with live music by Mogwai who worked on the soundtrack created the world of sadness, happiness, fear and hope. In the film told a woman's word who lost her son by Chernobyl disaster "If I had wings, I would fly away to find my son" and it got me tears. Mogwai did a fantastic job. I don't think no other band could have made something like this. Setlist Mogwai playing Atomic, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, 11th June 2016   |
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Post by mimmihopps on Jun 12, 2016 12:19:06 GMT -5
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