After his diverse yet cohesive 2013 album The Waiting Room, Jeff McIlwain, better known as Lusine, is back with a more tightly focused EP. McIwain's discography is intimidating, and over the course of the last few decades, he's been known for exceeding in a wide array of electronic styles, a rarity among artists of his kind.
The release of Arterial, his fourth EP for Ghostly, marks another successful foray into a niche that most artists would spend their careers immersed in. A calmly effortless work, Arterial is economical in everything it does, creating its own tiny universe to house expertly crafted productions. On the title track, crackling samples simmer like heated atoms narrowly missing each other, suspending us as we wait for release. “Eyes Give In” encapsulates the EP's feel, taut, with no sound out of place, and yet over the course of its five minutes warming into something undeniably human, even comforting. “Quiet Day,” the most accessible track here, demonstrates McIlwain's gift for merging heady electronic music with the visceral appeal of pop, as his gorgeous synth melodies compliment submerged vocals.
At 20 minutes, the EP is exactly as long as it needs to be, showcasing yet again the multiplicity that exists within Lusine's work through songs that form a compact whole. As McIlwain told Giant Step in a recent interview, his goal is to find “beauty in strange places” and “warmth under the surface” through all his music, and on Arterial he fulfills this wonderfully.
The long awaited Steven Soderbergh-directed drama “The Knick" seems, according to the first trailer a must see!
Synopsis:
Clive Owen stars as Dr. John W. Thackery in the show that follows the doctors, nurses and staff of the Knickerbocker Hospital in downtown New York in 1900 as they push the boundaries of medicine. However, what was then modern medicine is a lot different than what we know today — the morality rates are higher, and there seems to be a lot more blood.
Following their performance at Field Day last weekend, MONEY have just released a short film for ‘Goodnight London’, a fictional piece of art-house cinema, directed by Jem Goulding. Inspired by the confused identity talked about in singer Jamie Lee's lyrics, the film is a metaphor on the masks we are often forced to wear, embodied in an abstract love story. Like many an art-house films it also has a French flavour, with the story's lead character played by Parisian rising star Olivier Barthelemy, who found fame starring alongside Vincent Cassel in cult films such 'Sheitan' and 'Our Day Will Come'.
The film remains true to Goulding's storytelling, finding beauty and sadness in the unchartered territories of the human heart - a subject that Goulding explores in her best known poem 'CITY' written about the brutality of New York. This was the poem that bought Lee and Goulding together, realising that 'City' and 'Goodnight London' were inspired by the same kind of isolation; whether the city be NYC or indeed, London. Over a first rendezvous Lee asked Goulding to "make some good art" for their song Goodnight London.
About the director: Artist, director and writer Jem Goulding is an unbridled romantic. Her acclaimed films, photographs and poems have been compared to Patti Smith, Nan Goldin, Bette Gordon, Barbara Rubin and Lenore Kandel. To find out more about her work visit her website.
MONEY are Jamie Lee, Charlie Cocksedge, Billy Byron and Scott Beaman. Having formed in Manchester amidst a prolific underground milieu, they soon came to embody the passion, creativity and optimism of a new generation of artists and musicians who found themselves presented with what singer/frontman Jamie describes as ‘an extraordinary, poetic city’. Their debut album album The Shadow Of Heaven consists of ten songs that range from stripped-back piano ballads such as ‘Goodnight London’ and ‘Black’ to the more epic ‘Hold Me Forever’ and ‘Bluebell Fields’. Rooted in universal themes of the spirit, love and loss, the album also addresses man’s condition in the modern world, issues ‘such as isolation and mental health as logical reactions to it', says Jamie. It’s an album full of yearning and soul-searching, a voyage of (non-) discovery that only ends up finding itself and the sheer, aching beauty of questions asked in full knowledge of their own answerlessness. It’s metaphysics for the modern age, which might not be quite as spiritually bankrupt and bereft of meaning as we once believed.
Starring: Kim Kkobbi (Breathless, King of Pigs, Greatful Dead)
Lee Da-wit (Poetry, War of the Arrows)
Sung Joon (Horror Stories II)
On DVD & BLU-RAY June 23rd, 2014
DVD/BLU-RAY Special Features:
Director’s Cut, Interviews with director Shin Su-won and actress Kim Kkobbi, Trailer
Synopsis
Pluto is a story of the extremes elite high school seniors are prepared to go to guarantee entry into prestigious universities, and asks what could possibly turn an innocent boy into a monster.
June, a transfer student into an elite school, is driven to despair by the year’s first examination results. One day he discovers that a mysterious clique of fellow students are sharing secret notebooks, which contain important exam information. In order to get his hands on the notebooks he begs the members of the secret circle to include him. They task him with a series of missions to earn them, turning June into a monster in the process.
Winner: Crystal Bear - Special Mention – 63rd Berlin Film Festival
“Consistently entertaining, captivatingly unhinged and expertly paced”
– Rob Dickie, Sound on Sight
“A tour-de-force…PLUTO signals the arrival of a brilliant new talent”
– Pierce Conran, Twitch
“One of the most hard-hitting Korean indies of the year”
– James Mudge, Beyond Hollywood
DIRECTOR BIOGRAHY/ FILMOGRAPHY
Biography
Director SHIN Su-won was born in 1967 in Korea. She graduated Seoul National University and started her career as a teacher in the middle school. During her teaching career she wrote and published two novels focused on teens’ lives. Finishing her 10 years career as a teacher, she entered Korea National University of Arts and studied scriptwriting. After graduating KNUA she started her career as a filmmaker.
Filmography
Shave (Myundoreulhada, 2003) : short film
Passerby #3 (Rainbow, 2010) : feature film - “Best Asian Film Award” in 23rd Tokyo IFF
Women With a Movie Camera (Kamerareuldeunyeoja, 2011) : documentary
Circle Line (Soonwhanseon, 2012) : short film -“Canal+ Prize” in 65th Cannes IFF Critic’s Week
Pluto (Myungwangseong, 2012) : feature film
The limited DJ Dwarf in it’s 14th edition – this time in SACD-sized Super Jewel Box! As always, DJ Dwarf features the strongest tracks from the album in various versions and remixes (including remixes by ISZOLOSCOPE and ESA) plus 3 tracks from the Wreath of Barbs double-CD re-release for a total of 18 Tracks. Limited edition of strictly 500 copies.
