Yes, you're right, I had the Tibetan association in my mind, too, but it's perhaps the fact that he mixed Japanese and Tibetan recordings together which gives it this somewhat 'avantgardistic/industrial' drift which reminded me of Coil and early C93. The other track you mention is also great, though I was a little let down by the chansonesque/spaghetti western orchestral music that pops up from time to time in the later tracks of that soundtrack. Well, it certainly all makes sense with the film itself.vogler wrote:The first piece on the CD sounds purely Tibetan to me but there could be other elements. Coil, and a large number of other 'industrial' artists, were hugely influenced by Tibetan and other ritual musics. You probably already know that though.
What about track 6 on The Holy Mountain soundtrack. That one kind of reminds me of Zos Kia/Transparent era Coil. Scary.
And thanks for the 'Conversations with AJ' link!
I watched "Fando y Lis" yesterday night in its entirety, not being able to resist that film - hitherto unknown to me - any longer. Fascinating, although after the first viewing I found it not quite as intense as the two later films, and it somehow shows that he didn't have any script when he made it. I was very much reminded of Bunuel's "L'age d'or" in its indictment of religion and patriarchal society (apart from the surrealism itself), and also somewhat of Pasolini's "Teorema", though I wouldn't know how to precisely explain that latter association (and he couldn't have known that film, anyway). It was very funny to hear on the audio commentary how much he hated the actor who played Fando, and indeed, the acting is rather inconvincing, somewhat stiff.
Sadly, I don't have to take back anything I said in my earlier post about the image quality. Too high contrast (some whites are completely blown over), some scenes completely lack detail, and the whole image has a smeary look that you already pointed out with your screen caps. The production credits mention the people from Tartan, who release the set in R2 this month, too, and I wonder whether it was actually Tartan who made the transfer, and that what we see on the Anchor Bay disc is a PAL/NTSC-conversion, which would perfectly explain most of the problems with the image (whereas "El Topo" and "Holy Mountain" seem to be native NTSC). It would be interesting to know whether the image is better on the Tartan PAL disc (on the other hand it would mean that the Tartan discs of "El Topo" and "Mountain" might be less good than the Anchor Bay ones).
