Anika – who scored Jim Jarmusch's "Father Mother Sister Brother" – hits the Dance Cave with Avishag Cohen Rodrigues opening at 7 pm.
Writes Anika....
"In very exciting news, I scored the music for the latest Jim Jarmusch film, "Father Mother Sister Brother," along with Jim and some of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop crew (With whom i did the Nico, Desertshore project). The film just won the Golden Lion in Venice (Congrats to Jim, the cast and all his crew for this much deserved achievement) and premieres in the States on the 3rd October 2025, in NYC. Check the film once it's out in local cinemas and on Mubi." – Anika
Check out a few songs from Anika's recent performance in Paris following her videos for "Walk Away" and "Hearsay" off her latest album Abyss out now via Sacred Bones Records and the trailer for Jim Jarmusch's new film "Father Mother Sister Brother" starring Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Vicky Krieps and Mayim Bialik. There's also some footage from a March show by Avishag Cohen Rodrigues at The Rockwell in Somerville below.
Tickets for Anika's show with Avishag Cohen Rodrigues at the Dance Cave tonight (Monday, September 29) are $33.33 advance. Get 'em via Tickeweb right here.
Four of Man Ray's silent surrealist shorts have been digitally restored with new soundtracks created by Jim Jarmusch's Sqürl.
TIFF Wavelength presents...
Return to Reason (Retour à la Raison)
Man Ray
France | 76m | silent
TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King St. West)
Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30 pm
New 4K digital restoration!
Introduction by TIFF Cinematheque Coordinator Vicky Wong and Wavelength Music Artistic/Executive Director Jonathan Bunce.
In 1923 Paris, American expat Man Ray — one of the major proponents of Dada and Surrealism — made the first of his four silent avant-garde films, Le Retour à la raison. A hundred years later, Sqürl ― the atmospheric “marginal rock band” composed of Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan ― performed and recorded a semi-improvised score to this now-legendary quartet of shorts (1923–1929), newly and wondrously restored. The hypnotic Sqürl score terrifically enhances their dreamlike qualities, which were created using solarizing techniques (the artist’s signature “rayographs”), in addition to his use of diffused and refracted glass. These Freudian gossamer abstractions include explorations of graphic shapes; an oneiric picnic outing; a psychedelic study inspired by a Robert Desnos poem; and the Villa Noailles, a modernist villa designed by the great architect and designer Mallet-Stevens. Rife with hidden meaning and surrealist sensuality, the films are given an extra sensory and perceptual altering by the band’s ambient loops and Moog synths, which may induce a psilocybin-like experience. No drugs required! – Andréa Picard
Playing as part of this programme:
Return to Reason (1923)
Emak-Bakia (1926)
L’Étoile de mer (1928)
Les Mystères du château de Dé (1929)
The restoration process was led by Womanray and Cinenovo sourcing original prints from various parts of the world, in partnership with La Cinémathèque française, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, the French CNC and Cineteca di Bologna.
Check out the TIFF Bell Lightbox site for more info. Watch the trailer below.
The creepy, synth-enhanced score created by Jim Jarmusch's band SQÜRL for his new zombie flick is being issued by Sacred Bones on Sept 13th.
The Dead Don’t Die is writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s unique, semi-comic take on the zombie apocalypse genre. As with his recent efforts Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson, the film’s score was composed and performed by SQÜRL, the band Jarmusch and producer Carter Logan founded in 2009. Sacred Bones Records, the same label that released the band’s EP #260 in 2017, is releasing the LP edition of the score.
The score to the The Dead Don’t Die is a true expression of where SQÜRL stand at the center of a decade of sonic exploration. It is the culmination of their passion for analog synths, with guitar violence reverberating from the darker corners of Americana. It is at once a tribute to the classic sounds of horror and sci-fi, as well as a decapitation of traditional film scores. It is naturally supernatural.
From their arsenal of tools, Jarmusch and Logan pulled electric guitars and basses made by Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej at Carmine Street Guitars, an acoustic resonator, Moog Minitaur and Theremini synthesizers, Fender Rhodes electric piano, an old Ludwig drum kit, cheap vintage Casio and Yamaha keyboards and new synths from Critter and Guitari — all sculpted through a collection of effects pedals, notably from Earthquaker Devices.
The inspiration for SQÜRL’s score for The Dead Don’t Die came from some of the most iconic soundtracks of the past half-century of genre cinema — Tangerine Dream’s Sorcerer, Bebe and Louis Barron’s Forbidden Planet, Ennio Morricone’s The Thing and Once Upon a Time in the West, Goblin’s Dawn of the Dead, and all things John Carpenter. The singular Theremin work of Samuel J. Hoffman on films like Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still also made its way into Jarmusch and Logan’s consciousness. The result is a new horror soundtrack that stands shoulder to shoulder with the great works of its genre.
Watch The Dead Don't Die soundtrack teaser below. Pre-order a limited edition "Black Dust" splatter wax copy of the LP right here.
The Dead Don't Die – Original Motion Picture Score (Sacred Bones)
1. Dialogue 1 (Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny)
2. The Dead Just Don’t Wanna Die Today
3. Dialogue 2 (Larry Fessenden)
4. Replacement Sky
5. Dialogue 3 (Chloë Sevigny, Adam Driver)
6. This Is All Gonna End Badly
7. Dialogue 4 (Selena Gomez, Rosie Perez, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat)
8. Malignant Wave Of Doom
9. Dialogue 5 (Caleb Landry Jones)
10 Toxic Moon
11 Dialogue 6 (Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray)
12 Pulsating Elevator Of Light
13 Dialogue 7 (Chloë Sevigny, Bill Murray, Adam Driver)
14 The Dead Don't Die
15 Dialogue 8 (Tom Waits)
