Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler

Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler Music Inspired by Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur Thrill - 420 LP List $18.99 BOX LOT LP 25 *9037H-AECABg Vinyl is non-returnable GENRE : EXPERIMENTAL/SOUNDTRACK FILE UNDER: “L” Lattimore, Mary “Z” Zeigler, Jeff RELEASE DATE : July 22, 2016 Harpist Mary Lattimore and guitar/synthesizer player Jeff Zeigler NO EXPORT (JAPAN, S. AMERICA EXPORT OK) premiered their score for the 1968 French film Le Révélateur at the TRACK LISTING: 6. A Road renowned Ballroom Marfa’s annual silent film program in 2013. Although 1. The Glimmering Light 7. Hidden in a Cabinet created as an intentionally silent work, director Philippe Garrel endorsed 2. A Tunnel 8. Running Chased showing the film with every subsequent performance of the score. 3. A Forest 9. Stanislas 4. Laurent and Bernadette 10. The Revealer, Alone Lattimore and Zeigler’s score powerfully conveys isolation, despair and 5. Family Portrait 11. The Sparkling Sea awakening, amplifying sentiments portrayed in the film. Le révélateur, meaning the processor of images, in the film is the small boy who is given SALES POINTS voice through the rhythmic and inventive harp performance and through Lattimore and Zeigler present their score to French director emotive melodica lines, eerie synth and guitar. Together, the duo creates Philippe Garrel’s 1968 silent film Le Révélateur a soundscape that perfectly matches the film’s progression as it follows the boy’s journey from a family’s dysfunctional home life into a godless The duo of Mary Lattimore (harp) and Jeff Zeigler (guitar, post-apocalyptic landscape. Lattimore and Zeigler’s music becomes tense synthesizer, production) blend ancient classical traditions and rigid during scenes of desolation, switching only briefly to a soaring with modern improvisation and electronic performance major key during a moment of hope. The two act as musical révélateurs, reflecting the protagonist’s own wordless process. The resulting soundtrack This limited LP only release is pressed on virgin vinyl with a is a journey through fear, joy and solitude, mirroring the boy’s willful act printed inner sleeve and free download card. First 200 LPs of distancing himself from his parents into autonomy and independence, pressed on limited white vinyl armed literally and metaphorically against the oppressive and implacable forces of human nature. The album artwork features stills from the film (used with permission of the director). The score has also been ap- Since the score’s debut in Marfa, the duo has performed to sold- proved by Garrel out audiences at the Getty Museum and Cinefamily in Los Angeles, Constellation Chicago, and at the International House in the duo’s Lattimore & Zeigler have performed their score to Le Révé- hometown of Philadelphia. Le Révélateur was recorded by Zeigler (War on lateur to sold out crowds at Ballroom Marfa, Constellation Drugs, Kurt Vile) at his studio, Uniform Recording. Zeigler also performs Chicago, and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles. They will synth and guitar works solo as Valley Exit. Lattimore, a classically trained continue to perform the score with the film throughout 2016 harpist, has appeared on stage or on recordings with Steve Gunn, Meg and 2017 Baird, Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, and Wrekmeister Harmonies, among others. She received a prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2014. The Lattimore has recorded and performed with Kurt Vile, Thur- duo’s first record together, Slant of Light, was released in 2014. ston Moore, Meg Baird, Jarvis Cocker, Wrekmeister Harmo- nies, Steve Gunn, and Sharon Van Etten Lattimore and Zeigler are working on a new studio album for release in 2017 and will be performing their music inspired by Le Révélateur at Zeigler has recorded albums by Kurt Vile, The War on Drugs, additional screenings throughout the US and Europe. Nothing, and Purling Hiss and has played with members of Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band, The War on Drugs, and A Sunny Day in Glasgow in his group Arc in Round ALSO AVAILABLE : “Daphne Oram in cahoots with Fred Frith.” - Uncut Magazine Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler “Mary’s cascading chords pick and softly plunk music that Slant of Light CD/LP (Thrill 374) is made and measured for both home parlors and the lim- itless patchwork of parks... Jeff’s production encapsulates the accumulated incidental field noise that fuses the sounds of the city and prairie” - Impose PO Box 08038 / Chicago, IL 60608 Ph : 312.492.9634 / [email protected] www.thrilljockey.com.

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