Music from Grizzly Man

Music from Grizzly ManRichard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness is one of the best kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic canon: an instrumental masterpiece disguised as a movie soundtrack. Recorded over two days as Thompson played live in the studio to Herzog's footage mostly alone, at times in chamber settings with cello, piano and percussion these tenderly detailed melodies and

then spend the rest of their quick-burning lives teasing multiple moods and patterns out of relatively simple materials

teeming with craggy

That album nudged me to attempt a similar approach

departure and return

some magic happened while Spencer added drums to a tune he’d never heard

Top Dollar-with full Endless Boogie heft-soarin' high above the hobo res that icker along the bank've the Ouachita River

About mid-way through the second album Elkington had a liberating thought: he was making his own version of library music "if you’re writing library music

The Other Years is their debut album

half of these songs are first takes

The New York Times said "her music is folky and pastoral

Kentucky's Nathan Salsburg is a folklorist

Heartbreaking