2012 - The End Titles

Please check the 1/22/12 archive HERE for the 2012 -The End Titles installment of Morricone Youth.  All End Titles in honor of this year's impending doom.

Tribeca Grand Hotel New Year's Eve Morricone Youth

Classic Hollywood glamour meets downtown Manhattan chic at "Dances of Vice: The Grand Illusion", the most spectacular New Year's Eve celebration in New York, produced in partnership with Shien Lee Creative Group at the luxurious Tribeca Grand Hotel.

Sultry screen sirens, debonair gents, and young sophisticates converge to celebrate the coming year with requisite abandon from 9pm-4am as Tribeca Grand Hotel comes alive with a cavalcade of dazzling cirque, aerial, burlesque, tango, and showgirl performances, followed by New York's most sensational indoor ball drop in the hotel's eight-story atrium.

Dance among winking beauties and tomorrow's leading men to the live music of Morricone Youth, performing dance music and crime jazz from films of the 1960s and 70s after midnight, with New York's best DJs spinning all night in the Church Lounge.

Enjoy a bevy of tantalizing desserts and gourmet hors d'oeuvres catered by Tribeca Grand's award-winning chefs, and delicious cocktails in a premium open bar from 9pm-1am.

Tickets for an unforgettable evening of passion, glamour and romance on the last night of 2011 are available now at the Tribeca Grand E-Shop. Late-night reduced admission after midnight dependent upon space and availability. Formal evening attire requested. Official Press Release, 12/13/11

Michael Blake and John Rubino on Morricone Youth 12/18

On Morricone Youth this weekend, host Devon E. Levins will welcome Brooklyn-based composer/saxophonist Michael Blake and writer/producer/director John Rubino to discuss their new film Vodka Rocks!, a satire about branding, consumerism and the Hollywood dream factory, and to listen to the score featuring some of New York's finest musicians Steven Bernstein, Owen Howard, Napolean Maddox, Marcus Rojas and Jennifer Charles.

 

Michael Blake honed his skills in John Lurie's iconic The Lounge Lizards.  Blake's first solo album was produced by the legendary Teo Macero and he has since produced another ten as a leader along with three with his band Slow Poke featuring David Tronzo, Tony Scherr and Kenny Wolleson.  Michael has written for television and film and can be heard on the popular kids show theme The Backyardigans and John Lurie's soundtracks for Get Shorty, Excess Baggage, Fishing with John and African Swim.  

 

 

 

John Rubino is a writer, producer and director of independent feature films and documentary projects.  John just finished production on Vodka Rocks!, his second feature film.  Lotto Land, his first which he also wrote, produced and directed, was distributed theatrically by CFP/Lions Gate Films and won Best Screenplay at the Avignon film festival.  John’s interest in music led him to put a major focus on the music element of his films.  Lotto Land stars Wendell Holmes, a member of the Holmes Brothers who co-wrote and recorded the music with John.

 

Listen live starting at 2pm ET on Sunday!

Cliff Martinez on Morricone Youth This Sun 12/11 2-4p ET

 

 

Bronx-born/Ohio-raised Cliff Martinez moved to California in 1976 during the middle of the L.A. punk movement.  After stints as the drummer for L.A.'s Finest - the Weirdos, Lydia Lunch and Foetus frontman Jim Thirlwell, and the final incarnation of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band ("Ice Cream For Crow"), Martinez joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing on the band’s first two albums (the Andy Gill-produced debut and the George Clinton-produced Freaky Styley) and later the Dickies.  It was during his tenure with the Chili Peppers that Cliff began exploring the new technologies of that era, which would eventually guide him towards film music.

 

 

A tape Martinez had put together using these new technologies made its rounds, leading him to score an episode of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. The same recording also ended up in Steven Soderbergh’s hands and Martinez was hired to score the famed director’s first theatrical release 1989’s "sex, lies, and videotape."  Martinez’s longstanding relationship with Soderbergh has continued through the years and they have worked together on ten theatrical releases including Kafka, The Limey, Traffic, Solaris and 2011’s Contagion.  Perhaps it is because of his time in the punk scene that Martinez’s approach to scoring is nontraditional.  His scores tend towards being stark and sparse, utilizing a modern tonal palette to paint the backdrop for films that are often dark, psychological stories like Pump Up the Volume (1990), Wonderland (2003), Wicker Park (2004) and Drive (2011).  

 

 

 

Cliff Martinez’s recent films (Nicolas Refn’s Drive, Xavier Giannoli’s Talk Show, and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion) along with the composer's illustrious career, will be the subject of this coming Morricone Youth. Listen live starting at 2pm ET on Sunday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morricone Youth Plays 10 Days of Wood on Ennio's Birthday

Thursday, November 10th

FRANK WOOD presents

DAY 7 of

at

DELANCEY

168 Delancey St (bet. Clinton & Attorney Sts) NYC

212-254-9920

8:00 ASS ORBITERS

8:45 FRANKIE & THE BUGS

9:30 MORRICONE YOUTH

10:15 THE PURPLEHEARTS

11:00 BIKINI CARWASH

11:45 TANIA & THE REVOLUTIONARIES

with D. J. ROB NITRO

between and after the bands!

Cover: $5.00

Sunday 11/6 2-4p ET John Lurie Returns to Morricone Youth for Pt. 2

Listen to a very special Morricone Youth as your host Devon E. Levins welcomes acclaimed artist, actor, and musician John Lurie to the program for the first in a special two-part discussion about Mr.Lurie's soundtrack work. Part two will be streamed live on November 6th at 2pm ET at www.evr.com and on EVR's free mobile app for the iPhone and Android.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1952, John Lurie remains a true American original. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Lurie led the legendary band, The Lounge Lizards, which Lester Bangs of The New York Times proclaimed as "staking out new territory that lies somewhere west of Charles Mingus and east of Bernard Hermann."   In addition, he recorded 22 albums and over 20 film scores including The John Lurie National Orchestra's Men With Sticks and movie soundtracks for over 20 films, the most notable being Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Manny and Lo, Clay Pigeons, Animal Factory, and Get Shorty, which earned him a Grammy nomination.

In 1999, Lurie created the fictional character Marvin Pontiac and recorded The Legendary Marvin Pontiac - Greatest Hits CD for his own label, "Strange and Beautiful Music". Marvin Pontiac was said to be an insane African musician, who would only record for a label if its president came out and mowed his lawn. Pontiac was later hit and killed by a bus, outside the Esmeralda State Mental Institution.

As an actor, he had starring roles in the Jim Jarmusch films Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law. This led to appearances in numerous films with some of the world's foremost directors: Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas; Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ; David Lynch’s Wild at Heart; as well as a regular role on the HBO series Oz. Following his work in film, Lurie went on to write, direct, and star in the critically acclaimed television series Fishing with John, which aired on IFC and Bravo. Episodes included guests such as Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch and Dennis Hopper. According to the critic Glenn O'Brien, "Lurie elevates this venerable institution to a whole new level, doing for the American fishing format what Cézanne did for the still life."

 For over thirty years, Lurie has been drawing and painting, yet only in the last eight years has he chosen to exhibit his work.  John Lurie emerged onto the art scene in the spring of 2004, when he had his first painting exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery. Since then Lurie’s work has been exhibited in esteemed galleries throughout the world. His solo museum exhibits include P.S.1. Contemporary Arts Center in New York, Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal, the Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, who gave their entire museum to the presentation of Lurie's work.The Museum of Modern Art in New York have acquired his work for their permanent collections.

Lurie has published two books of his work, Learn To Draw, a compilation of black and white drawings and most recently A Fine Example of Art, a full color book of over 80 reproductions. John Lurie's drawings and paintings express a disarming mixture of corrosive wit, raw emotion and unblemished sensitivity. His works bear the mark of an outsider, a quality present throughout his idiosyncratic career. To quote the artist: "I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me. I am not an Indian."

Listen to the archive HERE!

Morricone Youth Returns to Rockwood Fri 11/4 8:30p

 

Photo - Steve Cohen

This Friday, November 4th, is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.  There are 57 days remaining until the end of year, which means we, the Morricone Youth, have less than a handful of performances remaining until apocalyptic 2012.  Friday is one of those performances...  Hope to see you there.

MORRICONE YOUTH – 8:30 pm
your favorite progenitors of the obscure, not so obscure, and original cinematic film scores...
*This Show is FREE! 

Rockwood Music Hall – Stage 1
196 Allen St
New York, NY 10002
Between Houston & Stanton
www.rockwoodmusichall.com

Remember to listen to
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Sundays from 2-4 PM ET
Only on...
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Music from the first talking picture onwards. If it was written to accompany images on a screen, we'll play it. Popcorn optional

Rubulad Halloween Fri 10/28 M.Youth 11:30p sharp!

Rubulad Presents
on FRIDAY, October 28:
Monster Horror Chiller Disco!
with live music by:
Morricone Youth
... Thomas Francis Takes His Chances
Mary-Go-Round
and more!

DJs:
$mall ¢hange
Shakey
DJ Mojo

plus:
Light Circus Extraordinaire by Norm Francouer
Modern Dance Awareness Society in "Too Dead Maries"
Yogi Avatar's Piercing Eye Photo Booth
Super-Secret Surprise Guests
Hot F***ing Tamales
Scary Movies
Scary Art
Scary People

Brand-new never-before-seen secret warehouse location a block and a half from the F/R stop in Gowanus. Huge rooftop views of terrifying industrial Brooklyn.

4th Avenue/9th Street F/R station. Exit on 10th Street and proceed 1 block to 124-126 10th Street between 2d and 3rd Aves. Enter through green gates.

10 pm doors, 11 pm show. 10 beans before 11 pm or way late. 15 beans in costume all night. 20 otherwise. 21+ up w/ ID to drink, please.

This is a costume party: wear a costume. You'll have more fun!

Our rules apply except smoking on roof or in courtyard, please.
Happy Halloween from your Rubulad.

Morricone Youth Played Pine Box Rock Shop 10/24

Alan Howarth on Morricone Youth 10/23/11

On Morricone Youth this weekend, just in time for the Halloween season, host Devon E. Levins will welcome onto the program acclaimed film and television soundtrack composer and sound designer Alan Howarth for an exclusive interview and in-depth listen to his music.

From scores to special sound effects, from Halloween stalkers to STAR TREK, Alan Howarth's electronic imagination has contributed to some of the biggest genre films of t10
he '80s.  Alternately wearing the hats of both composer and sound effects man, Howarth has been a frequent collaborator with John Carpenter on his films beginning with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in 1980 and including HALLOWEEN II & III, CHRISTINE, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, THEY LIVE and PRINCE OF DARKNESS and has scored many on his own, including THE LOST EMPIRE, RETRIBUTION, HALLOWEEN 4 & 5, THE DENTIST, HEADLESS, BOO! And, most recently, EVILUTION and BASEMENT JACK.  He has also provided sound design for films like POLTERGEIST, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, all the STAR TREK movies, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, Coppola's DRACULA, TOTAL RECALL, and STARGATE, among others.  In 2001, Alan served as Chief Audio Officer at Electronic Arts, the video game giant.  His personal and technical interests have lead to research and development and creation of an immersive audio system that plays back audio as Sound Pixels™.  Surrounded by this 48.6 channel playback technology, he is also working with colleagues Wesley H. Bateman and Dr J.J.Hurtak in musicological research that has lead to RA Music™ consisting of frequencies defined by the Sacred Geometry of Ancient structures.

Most recently, BUYSOUNDTRAX Records has released a new recording for the 1982 horror classic, THE THING – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE, featuring music composed by Ennio Morricone for the film directed by John Carpenter.  Prior to THE THING, director John Carpenter had gained a reputation as a director who also composed the music for his own films and had begun collaborating with sound designer and fellow composer Alan Howarth on the music for his films. With the enormous success of HALLOWEEN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, he found himself working for Universal on his first big studio film and, with a larger budget at his disposal, Carpenter was able to hire one of his musical idols to score the film. The movie’s soundtrack, though, would be a combination of both Morricone and Carpenter’s sensibilities. Characteristically, Morricone did not compose his score to picture. He composed many pieces of music inspired by the film he’d watched and by the directions he’d received from Carpenter. The music would be edited to fit the film as Carpenter wanted. During the post-production process, Carpenter decided he needed more music for the film and worked with collaborator Alan Howarth to produce some additional electronic music.  The original 1982 soundtrack release for THE THING featured Ennio Morricone’s score for the film, including a wealth of music that ultimately did not get used in the film. For this new release of music from THE THING, the music has been produced and arranged by Alan Howarth and Larry Hopkins, to include newly recorded renderings of the Morricone music (including recreations of the tracks not used in the film) and Howarth has also provided new performances of the music he produced for the film with John Carpenter, making their premiere appearance on this album. The music is presented in a sequence closer to film order.

The Thing, along with the composer's illustrious career, will be the subject of this Sunday's edition of Morricone Youth.

Listen live starting at 2pm ET on Sunday!
 
Devon E. Levins
Morricone Youth
Sundays 2:00pm-4:00pm ET

check out Alan Howarth's sites here:

www.alanhowarth.com
www.RAmusic.com
www.Transitionearth.com
www.buysoundtrax.com

The interview is archived HERE!