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Soundtrack listing for Fantastic Mr. Fox

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(pre-order at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk)

We excitedly present the  soundtrack listing for Fantastic Mr. Fox, available October 12 in the U.K. and November 3 in the U.S. The commercial ‘track includes one (original) Jarvis Cocker song, the obligatory Rolling Stones lick (“Street Fighting Man”), and three songs by Burl Ives.

1. “American Empirical Pictures”*
2. “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” – The Wellingtons
3. “Mr. Fox in the Fields”*
4. “Heroes and Villains” – The Beach Boys
5. “Fooba Wooba John” – Burl Ives
6. “Boggis, Bunce, and Bean”*
7. “Jimmy Squirrel and Co.”*
8. “Love” – Nancy Adams
9. “Buckeye Jim” – Burl Ives
10. “High-Speed French Train”*
11. “Whack-Bat Majorette”*
12. “The Grey Goose” – Burl Ives
13. “Bean’s Secret Cider Cellar”*
14. “Une Petite Île” – Georges Delerue
15. “Street Fighting Man” – The Rolling Stones
16. “Fantastic Mr. Fox AKA Petey’s Song” – Jarvis Cocker
17. “Night and Day” – Art Tatum
18. “Kristofferson’s Theme”*
19. “Just Another Dead Rat in a Garbage Pail (behind a Chinese Restaurant)”*
20. “Le Grand Choral” – Georges Delerue
21. “Great Harrowsford Square”*
22. “Stunt Expo 2004″*
23. “Canis Lupus”*
24. “Ol’ Man River” – The Beach Boys
25. “Let Her Dance” – Bobby Fuller Four

*Music Composed, Conducted, and Produced by Alexandre Desplat and produced By Wes Anderson and Randall Poster

Discuss it at the Yankee Races forum!

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Noah and the Whale: The First Days of Spring

The trailer for the Noah and the Whale film/album ‘The First Days Of Spring.’ The track featured is ‘Blue Skies’ and will be the first single from the album.

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Free track from Noah and the Whale

The Wes-inspired/British band Noah and the Whale is offering the title track from their forthcoming album, The First Days of Spring, for free.


(buy the MP3 album)

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Spencer Krug on Wes Anderson

Spencer Krug wants to hear from Wes Anderson, and I would love to hear from either of them. Sunset Rubdown‘s lead man, Spencer Krug, mentioned Wes in a recent Pitchfork “Guest List” interview in which the band talks candidly about virtually everything.

Artist I’d Most Like to Collaborate With

SK: I can’t totally decide, but I will say that for a long time now I’ve had this fantasy where Wes Anderson just calls me up, casually introduces himself, and explains that he’s run out of cool 1960s and 70s pop to use for soundtrack material and would really appreciate it if I could try writing some tunes for his upcoming film. Then I’d say that I’m super busy right now but his ideas sound “interesting,” and that we should talk about it over a beer.

Krug happens to be a personal favorite musician of mine, and Sunset Rubdown is my favorite of his many projects (read: Wolf Parade, Swan Lake, et al). Needless to say, I was excited to read Wes’s name in Pitchfork’s sub-head.

Full interview can be read here (Wes is mentioned once more): http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/7674-sunset-rubdown/

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Full Wes/Jarvis interview from Interview now available

We posted excerpts from Wes’ interview/conversation with Mr. Fox collaborator Jarvis Cocker last week.

The interview has now been posted in its entirety here.

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Imagining Wes soundtracks: The Cloud Photographers

Coming up with Wes Anderson mix tapes, imagining soundtracks for films that only exist in Wes’ (and our) dreams, is a favorite hobby of ours. We came upon a really fantastic one recently:

1. Cumulus
2. Donovan – Hi It’s Been a Long Time
3. Andrew’s Waltz
4. The Kinks – So Long
5. Les Boréades – Piggies
6. Paul Simon – The Obvious Child
7. Artur Rubenstein – Rhapsody On A Theme of Paganini – Var. #7
8. Belle and Sebastian – Fox in the Snow
9. With a Chance of Rain
10. Mike Berry and The Outlaws – Don’t You Think it’s Time
11. Hindi Beatles medley
12. The London Double Bass Sound – Moses Fantasy (paganini)
13. Ion Laceanu – Briu
14. The Rolling Stones – Mother’s Little Helper
15. The Flight of the Bumblebee* (Sinfonia Lahti Cello and Bass Ensemble) (Rimsky-Korsakov)
16. The Zombies – Beechwood Park
17. John Cale – Paris 1919
18. The Who – Can’t Explain
19. English Chamber Orchestra – Water Music Suite No. 2 in D
20. Sparks – Whipping and Apologies
21. Itzhak Perlman – Caprice #2 in B Minor by Paganini
22. The Damned – Jet Boy Jet Girl
23. The String Quartet – Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground)
24. Sigur Ros – Olsen Olsen

More

Dream up your own Wes soundtrack? Send it to us at edwardappleby(at)yankeeracers(dot)org, and we might feature it in a follow-up post.

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Ice trekking on the Perito Moreno Glacier, featuring music from The Life Aquatic

From The World Effect:


The World Effect travelogue video 12: Argentina (Patagonia) from The World Effect on Vimeo.

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Wes Anderson Soundtrack Tribute Night in Northampton, MA

Oh, what’s that Will Oldman? I can’t hear you over the awesomeness…

May 1, 2009
Wes Anderson Soundtrack Night
140 Pleasant Street
Northampton, MA 01060
www.elevensmusic.com
10pm $5

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Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip

A fun little post from At the Edge:

Image: Famous “Typewriter Sequence” from Merchant Ivory’s film Bombay Talkie (1970) featuring “Queen of the Nautch Girls”  Helen and great Shashi Kapoor. The film is not the best from Merchant Ivory duo, but the sequence is definitely iconic.

Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited (2007) made the song somewhat of an international hit (editor’s note: did it?).  Here is the song clip with Ismail Merchant, in a very Indian way, explaining the metaphor of “Fate Machine.”

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Wes Anderson alumni in new film

Wes Anderson Players Brian Cox (Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore) and Seu Jorge (Pelé dos Santos in The Life Aquatic) star in a new Irish-British prison drama, The Escapist. Distributed by IFC Films and Think Films, it opens (limited) on Friday, April 3.

Can’t do it, Max.