8 Tracks: Of Nostalgia With Woo
Reflection is a beautiful capability. To be able to look back upon the past in a positive light forms the very basis of nostalgia itself, to relive it is another thing.
Woo have been around the block once or twice. Earlier this year they released a new album which was titled 'Awaawaa' and was released on palto Flats. The pair have over the years created some of the most innovative and intriguing electronic music to reach our ears. You may or may not be already familiar with the pair's background in tape production. It was a labour of leisure, there was no thought that the pairs music would one day reach the ears of others. Little did they know… Below they talk eight moments of nostalgia…
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Owen Wilson, the star of this film plays the part of a true romantic who has a great love of 1920’s Bohemian Paris. This clip takes us back in time where he meets Salvador Dali, Man Ray and Luis Buñuel!
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Midnight In Paris - Salvador Dali, Man Ray And Woody AllenOwen Wilson, the star of this film plays the part of a true romantic who has a great love of 1920’s Bohemian Paris. This clip takes us back in time where he meets Salvador Dali, Man Ray and Luis Buñuel!
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The Demi-Paradise (1943) - Full Movie - CaptionedThis film is a gentle satire on the values the English hold so dear, seen through the eyes of a Russian inventor, played by Laurence Olivier. It was designed to encourage sympathy between Britain and the Soviet Union, our allies in the early part of 1940’s.
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Marx Brothers Musical | A Night At The Opera | 4. Harpo Marx At The Harp & PianoWhen we grew up, Mark and I saw the Marx Brothers’ movies on TV. This clip shows Harpo first doing slapstick at the piano, and then playing the harp in his unexpected transcendental style.
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Luigi Russolo Corale 1921 Classic Industrial Noise Experimental MusicThis guy really captures my imagination: He created his own machines to make industrial noises. He was part of the Italian Futurist movement. The Futurists proposed an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology. They were visionaries of the things to come.
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Django Reinhardt: Three-Fingered LightningAs a guitarist my brother Mark has one main inspiration – Django Reinhardt. As this film briefly describes, Django’s gypsy background infused his playing with brilliance, freedom and a subtle humour.
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I'Ll See You In My Dreams - Joe Brown ( Concert For George: A Celebration Of The Life And Music )This clip shows Joe Brown performing I’ll See You In My Dreams, a song that was written by Isham Jones/Gus Kahn in 1924, at the concert for George Harrison in 2002. The song is the nostalgic finale of this event.
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Woo - NostalgiaEven without the dialogue, the acting in these scenes brilliantly portrays the situation, almost as if it were made as a silent movie. The jealous husband, the lover and the femme fatale, (played by the incredible Gloria Swanson) in the eternal triangle. This 1931 film ‘Indiscreet’, like so many films of this era, has a style and an understated humour that still captivate our imaginations today.
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Woo - RomanticsThis is a clip from 1934 film Transatlantic Merry Go Round, with a Busby Berkeley like choreography. Like a Russian doll with its many layers it leads the viewer from the “real” world of the theatre on to the stage and then into other, more surrealist worlds and back to reality. I feel it portrays the essence of nostalgia with its innocent escape to better, by-gone times.
