Bernard Herrmann/Nat Phil Orch: The Peephole (3 mins 10 secs) Album: Psycho Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2021
:: Track 2
Joni Mitchell: Sweet Bird (4 mins 10 secs) Album: The Hissing of Summer Lawns ASYLUM 7559-60332-2
:: Track 3
Scott Walker: Face on Breast (5 mins 15 secs) Album: Tilt Fontana 526 859 - 2
BACKGROUND
Three of the most important artists in popular culture. Off kilter, difficult to describe, feelings of loss, but also beauty. The tracks are connected also by a bird motif: Hermann is composing for a moment in the film when Norman is secretly peeping through from the room of stuffed birds into Marion Crane's motel room; Mitchell is writing about the not so sweet bird of youth; and Walker starts his lyric with a description of a swan's flight and ends with a lonely declaration of love. (In between he quotes Lauren Bacall's most famous screen moment!)
COMMENTS
what fantastic choices. this man is a genious..a poet margiegras, sydney