Episode 29 marks Art of the Score’s first ever live episode, recorded in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Exploring the film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road), the live talk also preluded a concert later that week where the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra played Cave and Ellis’s music as arranged by our very own Nicholas Buc. Join us for a very special live episode as we try and find out what makes the film music of Cave and Ellis so good.

Episode notes:

0:54 – A very special live episode
5:27 – The Nick Cave and Warren Ellis sound
6:26 – Alice Wading
7:58 – A band process for film music
10:34 – The Proposition
12:41 – The meat pie western
14:05 – The drone, the voice, the piano
18:05 – Nick’s singing (The Rider)
21:11 – Martha’s Dream
22:55 – The Cave Waltz
26:38 – The Rider Song
29:20 – The Assassination of Jesse James
31:26 – The celeste
35:14 – A Rather Lovely Thing
37:17 – An arresting chord progression
39:45 – The Assassination lullaby
41:54 – Song for Bob
45:14 – The Road
49:35 – The Mother
52:09 – The Far Road
54:49 – The House
58:07 – The ray of hope
59:49 – The Ellis Cave DNA

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