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  White Bird In A Blizzard – Original Music by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd.
  CD available now here NOW …
  The soundtrack album to Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard has just been released in the US on Lakeshore Records.
  You can get it directly from us which is way cooler.

• OK, I get it, I’ve been a bit of a slacker with my website, however I just did a quick and dirty calculation which puts me at about 72 things recorded over the last 12 months which, well, kinda excuses me, somewhat. What with all my girls, real life, windows fucking 8 and bills to pay, dogs, ebay excesses and an uncontrollable beard situation, I would consider myself forgiven for momentarily forgetting about the interweb. All things considered, and with my well known, but perhaps slightly over documented, problems with the local telecoms people (FYI in my book it’s not offensive to suggest demolishing a church if it it between my so called 4G telephone and it’s corresponding so called 4G  cellphone tower….) communication has been more of an exciting privilege than a taken for granted right. My internet connectivity, in my humble domain, exists solely on a Tuesday, beneath the chestnut tree or on Friday mornings (sauf les jours feries), standing on one leg by the front gate, while pointing my phone towards La Poste wile humming La Marseillaise, and make no mistake, you have to hum with conviction. This is my way of telling those of you who I know and love, use the land line (it works, I personally oversaw the two baked-bean cans being strung together by a France Telecom engineer), oh, and send postcards.
  So, here I am, profiting from a slight lull in work (I’ve been thinking it was Friday all day but I was cheerily informed by my youngest that it was in fact Thursday, which, well initially fucked me off,  as I figured I had to endure one more weekday, but then gave me a sense of triumph as I realised that I just won a day to catch up with undone things in my so-called life, like catching up with the internet and the world outside, the world, past the mailbox just beyond the range of my slippers.
  However, sadly it’s really Friday tomorrow, so back to work… 
  Mais quand même… I compiled a little list, of what I’ve been getting up to. The album Another Flower with Harold Budd , the Flares EP for Boreal Wood, my song-writing with adorable genius of Jay-Jay Johanson, the album Universal Road with Mark Gardener, which should have been out already but for my inability to get it together combined with his recent foray into fatherhood, a life event, btw, which puts silly fucking records into perspective.
  The White Bird in a Blizzard, original soundtrack album has kept me busy as have doing lots of artwork and mastering for the re-released CD digipak editions of After The Night Falls and Before The Day Breaks albums with Harold Budd, as well as a gate-fold sleeve, double vinyl album version of the two aforementioned albums. Likewise vinyl editions of my Fortune album, as well as the Bordeaux album with Harold Budd have become available at Darla Records.
  A very cold and windy January found me producing the next, as yet untitled, Heligoland EP, the next in a series of their location recordings, recorded in a lighthouse in Normandy which we soon followed by Dave & Sandra’s summer wedding, but, and you know what I am about to say, that life events like this put silly fucking records into perspective.
  This week I started on a score for Surface Waves by Seattle cinematographer Reed O’Beirne. Oh, my goodness, I am excited about that.
  I went, with my girls, to see White Bird in A Blizzard at the Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville, with the director Gregg Araki, and the public première of White Bird at the MK2 Bibliothèque in Paris. I got to wear my suit for all three occasions and looked rather dapper.
  Most people took picture of my girls.
  Apart from that all seems well.
  During this week, my friend Anton has been trying to take a nice picture of me but now he has left, it’s Friday again for the second time this week.

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  Of course you could be all modern, try to identify with the generation of people that are slowly bringing you around to feeling OK  to treat movies and music as ephemeral, with little longevity, encouraging you to stream, download or just simply, use, but in the US you have a chance to see a wonderfully crafted indie film with sound production values, a significant cast, masterful directorship and, um, a rather lovely soundtrack on the big screen in a theater near you, for at least you lucky inhabitants of a country where salty popcorn isn’t illegal.
  So go, don’t be fucking complacent, open your mind, enjoy the story, the filmcraft, support indie cinema, thank yourself daily that, really, people are not bombing you and fucking up your shit, and you don’t have to forage for food, and perhaps, you could even buy the album, as foraging is getting a little tiring at my age.
  But seriously, it’s a lovely melange, indie cinema, uncompromising directorship, inspiring actors …. great movie. I’m very proud to be involved, thanks Gregg…

  Opening in the US

  10/24/2014
  Minneapolis, MN: Lagoon Cinema
  Ottawa, ON: The Mayfair
  Seattle, WA: Varsity Theatre
  West Los Angeles, CA: Nuart Theatre

  10/31/2014
  Atlanta, GA: Midtown Art Cinemas 8
  Berkeley, CA: Shattuck Cinemas 10
  Cambridge, MA: Kendall Square Cinema 9
  Corona, CA: Dos Lagos Stadium 15
  Denver, CO: Mayan Theatre
  Pasadena, CA: Playhouse 7 Cinemas
  North Hollywood, CA: Laemmle NoHo 7
  Palm Desert, CA: Cinemas Palme D’Or 7
  Philadelphia, PA: Ritz at the Bourse
  Portland, OR: Living Room 6
  San Diego, CA: Ken Cinema
  San Francisco, CA: Embarcadero Center Cinema 5
  San Jose, CA: Camera 3
  Vancouver, WA: Kiggins

  11/7/2014
  Columbus, OH: Gateway Film Center 8
  Saskatoon, SK: The Roxy

  11/14/2014
  Gainesville, FL: Hippodrome

  11/20/2014
  Telluride, CO: Michael D. Palm Theatre

• The album that I’m recording with Mark Gardener seems to be going rather well. 10 songs so far. Just waiting for mark to get free from his busy schedule to come over and finish it.
  Harold Budd joined me here in France over the summer and we have an album in progress… We performed a special one-off concert together on Saturday 25th may 2013 at Palac Akropolis in Prague.
  Summer has been pretty busy thank to the fact that I’ve been recording the score for the forthcoming Gregg Araki film, White Bird in a Blizzard.