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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Loin Des Hommes

Adapted from a short story by Albert Camus, it is a powerful tale of divided loyalties and colonialist violence during Algeria's war of independence. With its mesmeric drones, pointillist piano jabs, weeping strings and nerve-jangling electronics, this is one of the duo's most emotive and experimental soundtracks to date, sounding both achingly intimate and cosmically vast.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis create film and theatre scores that are elegantly minimal, hauntingly beautiful and instantly recognizable as theirs alone. Full of light and shade, creeping dread and inconsolable yearning, these heavily instrumental sound paintings inject aching humanity into ghostly frontier towns, parched desert vistas and post-apocalyptic war zones. Most are built around the duos intertwined piano and violin melodies, with sporadic use of guitar, flute, mandolin, celeste, percussion and other elements.

Vocals are rare and sparing. But even without lyrics, they are always lyrical.

Tracklist

• 1. Far From Men
  2. The Teacher
  3. Bloody Cheche
  4. Dead Horse
  5. Setting Out
  6. Mountain Scramble
  7. Dust Storm
  8. Bandits
  9. The March
  10. Berzina
  11. Farewell At Tinguit
  12. No Class Today
  13. Teacher's Farewell
  14. Far From Men 2