Archive for the ‘film music’ Category
My exploration of Indian culture via YouTube continues to unearth some musical gems. In this post I’m featuring several clips showing fictionalised devotions to the Goddess Kali - a primal Hindu deity of fearsome aspect who is familiar to many non-Hindus as the goddess of death and destruction – a not entirely accurate representation of her function within the pantheon. Kali is [...]
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In recent months I’ve been exploring a wealth of Indian classical music and dance on YouTube. Here are a few of my favourite discoveries… First up are a couple of clips from a pair of films featuring Padmini (1932-2006), the multi-lingual (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam) actress and trained Bharathanatyam dancer who starred in over 250 [...]
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The following video – evidently a clip from the obscure 1970 film Sex Power by French director Henri Chapier - manages to combine female near-nudity, erotic choreography, a group of black men, a gigantic, leering strangely inflexible cobra and a soundtrack by Vangelis into one seriously Freudian extravaganza. Words fail me: …and in the interests of gender equality, here’s a rather catchy little number from Turkey’s [...]
Posted in video, middle eastern music, film music, electronic music | Tagged: music, vangelis, ottoman, tarkan, sex power, henri chapier, freudian, freud, turkey, turkish, pop music, erotic, eroticism, sex, cobra, dance, choreography, snake, reptile, india, indian, exotic dance, exotic | 4 Comments »
Coming up this week on UT 699 is the Australian radio premiere (yes, another one!) of the newly-released extended 3-CD soundtrack to Ridley Scott‘s Blade Runner, by the lord of the symphonic ambient cosmos – Vangelis Papathanassiou - who coincidentally celebrate his 65th birthday this month. Here’s a tiny sample of what’s in store… …and as if [...]
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