Episode 29 marks Art of the Score’s first ever live episode, recorded in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Exploring the film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road), the live talk also preluded a concert later that week where the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra played Cave and Ellis’s music as arranged by our very own Nicholas Buc. Join us for a very special live episode as we try and find out what makes the film music of Cave and Ellis so good.

Episode notes:

0:54 – A very special live episode

5:27 – The Nick Cave and Warren Ellis sound

6:26 – Alice Wading

7:58 – A band process for film music

10:34 – The Proposition

12:41 – The meat pie western

14:05 – The drone, the voice, the piano

18:05 – Nick’s singing (The Rider)

21:11 – Martha’s Dream

22:55 – The Cave Waltz

26:38 – The Rider Song

29:20 – The Assassination of Jesse James

31:26 – The celeste

35:14 – A Rather Lovely Thing

37:17 – An arresting chord progression

39:45 – The Assassination lullaby

41:54 – Song for Bob

45:14 – The Road

49:35 – The Mother

52:09 – The Far Road

54:49 – The House

58:07 – The ray of hope

59:49 – The Ellis Cave DNA

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