During its second edition, UFA Film Nights introduces you to the golden age of silent film. Bozar is giving away 5 x 2 tickets for the film screenings of 'The Sixth part of the world' and 'The Eleventh Year' by Dziga Vertov, accompanied live by the Michael Nyman Band.
The festival, a collaboration of Bozar, Cinematek, Bertelsmann and UFA, offers you a week of magical film concerts. Featured on the programme is the digitally restored version of 'Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari', a sparkling success at the Berlinale and now having its Belgian premiere, with music by Timothy Brock in a never-before-heard version (15.09). Dj Raphael Marionneau will provide music to the gem Menschen am Sonntag (16.09) while Michael Nyman and his band take on the classic films of Dziga Vertov (17.09).
Bozar is giving away 5x 2 tickets for the screening of 'The sixth part of the world' and 'The eleventh year' by Dziga Vertov, accompanied by live music of the Michael Nyman Band on 17 September at the Palace of Fine Arts. Send an email to before 10 September to bozar.cinema01@bozar.be. The winners of the competition will be notified by email.
Info and tickets
Rue Ravenstein, 23 - 1000 Brussels | Brussels | Brussels
www.bozar.be | + 32 (0) 2 507 82 00
Meet Cliff Martinez, Dan Romer, Francis Lai and Jef Neve at Filmfest Gent
On Saturday 25th of October you will have the opportunity to meet with some important members of the film music industry and performing artists from the World Soundtrack Awards.
Artistic director Patrick Duynslaegher and music director Dirk Brossé will have a discussion with music geniuses Cliff Martinez – ex-drummer of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers-, Discovery of 2013 Dan Romer, Lifetime Achievement Award winner Francis Lai and Belgian jazz pianist and composer Jef Neve.
They all have an impressive resumé: the score for ‘Drive’ and ‘Contagion’, the touching composition of ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ the award winning soundtrack of ‘Love Story’ and the beautiful arrangements for the music of Belgian drama series ‘In Flanders Field’. Those are a few examples of the work of our guests.
After the debate there will be a more private moment with the composers. Because of the limited space, we ask you to reserve your seats before 13/10 at the Monasterium Poortackere by sending an e-mail to industry@filmfestival.be.
Practical information:
When? Saturday the 25th of October at 13:00
Where? Monasterium Poortackere
Danny Wolfers aka Legowelt, composed a new soundtrack for Werner Herzog's 'Aguirre, The Wrath of God' at the invitation of Film Fest Gent, Vooruit and art collective Stroom.
Once described as an extremely intense and colorful living painting, this film tells the story of an obsessed and insane quest for the secret golden city of El Dorado through the inhospitable jungles of the Amazon rainforest.
Danny Wolfers is a Dutch electronic producer and DJ who beame world famous under the name Legowelt. He made a shortened, more visually oriented version of the film and provides the soundtrack with live synthesizers. Partly inspired by the original enchanting soundtrack by the German krautrock band Popol Vuh and the insane and legendary protagonist Klaus Kinski. This screening takes place in the Theaterzaal of Vooruit.
AFTERPARTY
There's an afterparty after the film in the Ballroom of Vooruit with a DJ set by Legowelt himself and also sets by Chris Ferreira and DJ Nosedrip.
Source: Vooruit
Apart from all collaborative projects, Dirk Serries is diving full head into ambient bliss again, re-instating his classic vidnaObmana ambience.
He returns to Projekt Records with The Origin Reversal, a re-boot of his classic vidnaObmana sound. This is ambient music that flows from its discreet origins: sonic purity, washes of harmony, and organic textures which slow time to a phase of transcendence.
Picking up on the 1988 - 1996 vidnaObmana ambient period (mostly released on Projekt), The Origin Reversal's six tracks are informed with a subtlety that only comes from Serries' decades of musical growth exploring his craft. After the understated, meditative 2012 collaboration with Steve Roach, Low Volume Music, Serries reestablished himself as the ambient artist known worldwide for minimal, warm and introspective sonic atmospheres. Performed in real-time directly to a stereo 2-track, Serries created these six tracks armed only with a Gibson Les Paul custom guitar and a few pedals. Despite the use of different tools from his electronic heritage,The Origin Reversal shows a refinement and maturity achieved through extensive touring, intriguing side-projects, recordings and collaborations.
The Belgium-based Serries has experimented with ambient music for over 30 years. His earliest work came out under the vidnaObmana pseudonym, until he closed the book on that project in 2007. In the ensuing seven years, he released over twenty albums under various monikers before returning to a refined stream of ambient works. October 2013 saw three solo albums on limited edition 180-gram vinyl. Unedited live performances meant to run the length of a side of a vinyl record, they were published on the boutique Tonefloat:Ikon imprint. These three LPs were followed by a few digital-only albums.
The hypnotic nature of Serries’ music comes with time and restrained anticipation. It’s all about a delicate touch that never disturbs the continuum between sound and silence.
Pre-Order your CD copy now, shipping early-September from :
Projekt Records | Stream & Download Bandcamp. Extremely limited to 300 copies. Early Bird Bonus: The first 50 buyers receive a free copy of vidnaObmana's 1998 CD, Crossing the Trail.
Dirk Serries in concert :
September 19th : Blaest, Trondheim (Norway)
- supporting Tomas Järmyr's trio with Mats Gustafsson and Stian Westerhus.
September 20th : Rake, Trondheim (Norway) support : Tomas Järmyr, solo cymbals.
October 25th : tbc, The Netherlands
December 5th : tbc, Belgium
New Order are very pleased to announce they have signed a worldwide deal with Mute, and that their next release will be on the legendary independent label.
Speaking about the signing Daniel Miller explains: “This is an exciting new chapter for both Mute and New Order and I feel privileged to be working with artists with such a long, creative and successful history. When the possibility of us working together first came up, I was invited to hear some of the new material and immediately had no doubts whatsoever that Mute would be the right home for New Order. We've already had a number of creative conversations, and I am looking towards an exciting future”.
New Order are similarly thrilled with their new home "New Order are delighted to be signing to Mute. We couldn't imagine a better place to be than working with Daniel Miller and his team. Mute has a superb roster of artists and a history that complements our own. In many ways joining the label feels like we are coming home, returning to our independent roots."
Forming in 1980 out of the ashes of Manchester band Joy Division, New Order have released a total of nine studio and two live albums, starting with their debut single ‘Ceremony’ on Factory Records in 1981. Thus starting a career as iconic as it has been influential.
2014 has seen the band play for the Tibet House charity at New York’s Carnegie Hall, curated by Philip Glass. They performed Joy Division classics, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ and ‘Transmission’ with Iggy Pop, alongside never played live New Order track ‘Californian Grass’ from their 2013 release Lost Sirens.
They toured South America in April 2014, playing at Lollapolooza, then headed to the US for a hugely well received run of dates, airing several new tracks to rapturous reception. New Order will soon return to the studio to continue working on new material.
Founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller, Mute has signed and developed an amazing array of innovative artists, including Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Depeche Mode, Plastikman and Moby. The current roster includes Goldfrapp, Erasure, Plastikman, Liars, Can and Cabaret Voltaire, alongside newer signings such as Zola Jesus, Swans, Ben Frost, Big Deal, Land Observations, Cold Specks, Diamond Version and Maps.
