| | FEATURED PERFORMING ARTS BOOKS In October 2010, David Lynch received the Kaiserring award, presented annually to visual artists by the city of Goslar, Germany. Following the awards ceremony, Lynch gave a press conference and took questions from a number of local schoolchildren about his work. This 45-minute audio CD is edited from both occasions to produce an audio portrait of Lynch's thought and life. Here, Lynch recalls his childhood and his early love of painting, and discusses such topics as daydreaming, dream logic, meditation, his favorite kinds of shots (such as "people coming out of darkness"), the studio system, painting and film, and the titular relationship between image and sound. The disc closes with a short discussion by Marilyn Manson, who recounts his first encounter with Lynch and the filming of Lost Highway. > more
DAVID LYNCH: THE MARRIAGE OF PICTURE AND SOUND
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ISBN 9783869840550 / In stock
 Tom Waits is a major artist, both to countless young musicians who name him as a crucial influence, and to the press and critics who see him as one of the most important figures in music. Waits’ influence can be felt throughout popular culture, from his film roles for directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Terry Gilliam and Jim Jarmusch to iconic portraits taken by photographer Anton Corbijn. Over the course of his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums that serve both to refine the music that has come before, and to signal a new phase in his career: Rain Dogs and Mule Variations are among these pivotal works. For Bad As Me, his first studio album in seven years, Waits has created a unique book edition of the album, featuring the new CD and 40 pages of lyrics and images, many of them created by Waits himself; the book also features an exclusive second CD with three unreleased tracks from the Bad As Me studio sessions. The music finds Tom Waits unleashing perhaps the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting abilities, working with a veteran team of gifted musicians, including longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of “Chicago” to the closing bar room chorale of “New Year’s Eve,” Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits’ songwriting, including beautiful ballads like “Last Leaf,” and the avant-cinematic soundscape of “Hell Broke Luce,” or on tracks like “Talking at the Same Time,” Waits shows off a supple falsetto, while on blues burners like “Raised Right Men” and the gospel tinged “Satisfied” he spits, stutters and howls. Like a good boxer, the songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times. And there is a pervasive sense of players delighting in each other’s musical company that brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album’s saddest songs. Bad As Me is a Tom Waits album for the ages. > more
TOM WAITS: BAD AS ME
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ISBN 9780982880869 / In stock
 Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most important dancers and choreographers of our time. He has created some of contemporary dance's finest productions, often using leftfield rock music (most famously in his fantastic collaboration with The Fall, I Am Curious, Orange). Situated at the heart of the British postpunk art scene, Clark is much admired for his judicious choice of collaborators, such as designers Bodymap, artists Cerith Wyn Evans, Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas, Peter Doig and Sarah Lucas, film director Peter Greenaway (Clark played Caliban in Prospero's Books) and bands The Fall, Laibach and Wire. This monograph, the first on this major artist, celebrates the whole of Michael Clark's career to date, from the late 70s to the present. Rich in visual and archival material, it contains new essays on Clark's work, photography by Hugo Glendinning, Richard Haughton, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle, Chris Nash and others, plus interviews with many of Clark's collaborators from the worlds of dance, art, fashion and music. Limited edition photographs are available from the publisher.
Michael Clark set up his own dance company in 1984, at the age of 22. He immediately won the admiration of Rudolf Nureyev, who commissioned ballets from Clark for the repertoire at the Paris Opera. Clark has also been the subject of numerous films and documentaries, including the fictional biography Hail the New Puritan by Charles Atlas and The Late Michael Clark, directed by Sophie Fiennes. > more
MICHAEL CLARK
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ISBN 9781900828338 / In stock
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