Music for Drifters explained

Music for Drifters
Type:Soundtrack
Artist:Field Music
Cover:Music For Drifters (album cover).jpeg
Released:18 April 2015 (Record Store Day vinyl release)
24 July 2015 (wide digital release)
Recorded:2014
Genre:Indie pop, progressive rock, soundtrack
Length:40:40
Label:Memphis Industries
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Music for Drifters is the official release of the soundtrack to the 1929 documentary Drifters, credited for kickstarting the "documentary" film genre.[1] [2] [3] [4] The soundtrack, commissioned in 2013 by the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival,[5] was composed by the Sunderland band Field Music. The composition is the first of their works to feature pianist Andrew Moore since 2007's Tones of Town. After touring the film accompanied by the band playing the soundtrack live around the UK, the composition was recorded and released firstly on vinyl for Record Store Day 2015 (limited to 750 copies[6]), and then digitally in July 2015.

Reception

Though a niche release commercially, the soundtrack was well received by some critics, with several praising the band's ability to evoke "...an oddly aquatic ambience...the percussive delicacy evocative of the lapping tide, the idiosyncratic shifting of pace signalling the unease of the environment".[7] The Scotsman praised the touring performance of the soundtrack, giving it four stars (out of five) and again noting the "complementary score of plangent guitar, electro jazz keyboards and a slow martial beat to match the hypnotic footage of bobbing buoys and silvery shoals caught in the nets."[8]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by David and Peter Brewis and Andrew Moore.

  1. "Introduction" – 0:46
  2. "Village" – 2:37
  3. "Engine" – 0:46
  4. "Out of the Harbour" – 0:44
  5. "Headland" – 1:34
  6. "The Log-Line Tells the Miles" – 0:50
  7. "Casting Out (Part 1)" – 0:40
  8. "While Down Below" – 1:26
  9. "Casting Out (Parts 2 & 3)" – 3:55
  10. "Night-Time" – 0:43
  11. "Destroyers of the Deep" – 2:58
  12. "Dawn Breaks" – 1:26
  13. "Wake Up" – 0:56
  14. "Hauling" – 2:40
  15. "The Storm Gathers" – 3:57
  16. "Full Speed" – 0:32
  17. "Batten Down" – 3:33
  18. "The Ship Rides Through / Quayside (Part 1) – 2:26
  19. "Quayside (Part 2)" – 4:54
  20. "Ends of the Earth" – 1:43

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Grierson 1898 – 1972. Griersontrust.org. 13 March 2022.
  2. Web site: DRIFTERS (John Grierson, 1929). Grunes.wordpress.com. 11 September 2007.
  3. Web site: Tate Liverpool | Past Exhibitions | Making History . www.tate.org.uk . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080621201142/http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/makinghistory/film/films/rm1_drifters.shtm . 21 June 2008 . dead.
  4. Web site: Montage Film Reviews - Written Reviews Section: 'Drifters' 1929 (Dir. John Grierson) "Dramatising the Mundane: The Working Man Hero in John Grierson's 'Drifters' " . 2011-07-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327220013/http://www.montagefilmreviews.com/Drifters(1929).html . 2012-03-27 .
  5. Web site: Announcing a new commission: Field Music "Drifters" . 2015-07-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150915151505/http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/news/161/announcing-a-new-commission-field-music-drifters . 2015-09-15 . dead .
  6. Web site: Field Music – Music for Drifters (2015, Silver, Vinyl). Discogs. 18 April 2015 .
  7. Web site: Field Music: Music for Drifters review – shoals of silver daring. TheGuardian.com. 23 July 2015.
  8. Web site: Gig review: Field Music: Drifters, Glasgow - The Scotsman. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150724163950/http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/gig-review-field-music-drifters-glasgow-1-3794356. 2015-07-24.

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