Oily Night - The Black Rider [220]

A fourth week with Penny Foxley sees her talk with Sam and Martin about more cacophonous instrumental music, this time with a vocal to put even Waits to shame. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Oily Night, The Black Rider, Tom Waits (1993)

khemchim, dalai beldiri, Yat-Kha (1999)

Oily Night at 1h31m30s from The Black Rider: The Casting of the 12 Magic Bullets (filmed at the Weiner Festwochen, via YouTube), Wilson/Burroughs/Waits (1990)

Uncle telling the Hemmingway Story at 1h51m10s from The Black Rider: The Casting of the 12 Magic Bullets (filmed at the Barbican Theatre, via YouTube), Wilson/Burroughs/Waits (2004)

Alash Hem (The Alash River), Genghis Blues, Kongar-ol Ondar w/ Paul Pena (2000)

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Interlude - The Black Rider [219]

A short episode for the shortest of short tracks, as Penny, Martin and Sam discuss this 18sec Greg Cohen extract from the Black Rider score. Now with even less Tom Waits!

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Interlude, The Black Rider, Tom Waits (1993)

Interlude at 11m57s from The Black Rider: The Casting of the 12 Magic Bullets (filmed at the Weiner Festwochen, via YouTube), Wilson/Burroughs/Waits (1990)

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Gospel Train - The Black Rider [218]

Penny Foxley returns to give Martin & Sam some more context and detail for the Black Rider play from 2004. The cacophony of the music (and the evolution of that music), Marianne Faithfull’s tailcoat, and the raw energy of early-2000s girlband pop all feature in today’s discussion... sometimes slightly tangentially?

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Gospel Train, The Black Rider, Tom Waits (1993)

Overload, One Touch, Sugababes (2000)

Gospel Train at 1h35m47s from The Black Rider: The Casting of the 12 Magic Bullets (filmed at the Weiner Festwochen, via YouTube), Wilson/Burroughs/Waits (1990)

… and the same for the timecode 1h38m26s featuring Waits's voice on recording?

Overload music video (dir. Phil Poynter, via YouTube), Sugababes (2000)

Why the same scream is used in Hollywood Films - history of the Wilhelm Scream (via YouTube), Movie Insider (2018)

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Crossroads - The Black Rider [217]

Another Waits-does-Burroughs track this week, as we’re joined by stage manager and Black Rider alumnus Penny Foxley for some discussion of her first-hand experience working on the play. We talk through Robert Wilson’s micromanagement of actors’ gestures, the fun of doing the show compared to its bleak content, and the presence of the crossroads myth in the 1930s blues of Robert Johnson. 

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Crossroads, The Black Rider, Tom Waits (1993)

Cross Road Blues, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Robert Johnson (1937)

Crossroads at 1h16m7s from The Black Rider: The Casting of the 12 Magic Bullets (filmed at the Weiner Festwochen, via YouTube), Wilson/Burroughs/Waits (1990)

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