Woodenhead Soundtrack CD 50 mins 2003

Features music + dialog from Florian Habichts' digital feature film. Vocals by Warwick Broadhead, Mardi Potter + Steve Abel. Includes Steve Abel's "Hospice for Destitute Lovers" + Killer Ray's "Hi De Hi De Ho". Most of the music was created from samples of accordian + trumpet, also drums. Beautiful cello was performed + composed by Edward Hanfling. Florian wrote the lyrics, which were sourced from fairy tales, in fact the film is a musical fairy tale. The following review features in Grant Smithies book "Soundtrack : 118 Great New Zealand Albums". It's probably the best review I've ever had so I may aswell put it here. SUNDAY STAR REVIEW BY GRANT SMITHIES, SUNDAY NOV 23, 2003: RATING: * * * * I haven't seen the movie, but Marc Chesterman's soundtrack for Florian Habicht's digital flick Woodenhead certainly makes me want to. Dark and quirky, part vaudeville, part fairy tale, with snippets of somewhat disconcerting dialogue shoehorned between short musical tracks, the music alone has me imagining some kind of psychotic soap opera set in the wilds of Northland and directed by David Lynch. From the doleful cello of "Maidenwood" to the screaming guitar of "Goerdel", from the cruise ship bossa nova of "Horoscope Dance" to the wonderfully weary lullabies "Lucky Star" and "Hospice for Destitute Lovers", it's an ever- changing, constantly surprising and slightly malevolent mood-fest. This soundtrack was recorded before any visuals were shot, with the actors then invited to improvise their parts to small, scene-sized chunks of sound, which resulted in extremely well-integrated sound and vision but a big problem synching up the dialogue. The cunning solution? The actors deliver their lines without moving their lips, as if they're communicating telepathically. Go and see it, but in the meantime, buy the record, lay back and let your mind make movies of its own.

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