Cult With No Name composes film score

Varyingly described as 'clever, subtle, sophisticated', 'simply unforgettable' and (their all-time favourite) 'the anticoldplay', it’s fitting that London duo Cult With No Name have now turned their attention to cinema, for their first DVD release. And it’s even more fitting that the German expressionist classic gets the CWNN treatment.

Released in 1920, and directed by Robert Wiene, 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' remains one of the most influential films of all time, it's dark imagery and surrealist set design subtly, and usually not so subtly, constantly referenced in film and music for generations to come.

Cult With No Name’s compulsive and compelling soundtrack extends their ability to instantly create evocative moods over 51 breathtaking minutes. As the bleak story unfolds, each piece seamlessly drifts and merges into the next, along a journey that takes in warm ambience, nerve-shredding distortion, popular (and maybe even unpopular) song, and vast, expansive futurist soundscapes. It's a story of magic, murder, mystery and ultimately, madness.

Lightwerx (a division of Trakwerx Records) proudly gives you Cult With No Name's 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'...and invite you to think outside the box.

Lightwerx: Georges Melies

Lightwerx: Georges Méliès is our homage to the groundbreaking French film director, Georges Méliès (1861-1938). Containing 15 magical short films with original scores from Trakwerx artists such as Jo Gabriel, Tommy Santee Klaws, Jackson Del Rey, Gods Of Electricity, 17 Pygmies, Cult With No Name, Meg Maryatt, Lea Reis, Sparkle Girl, Stephan Graham, Kulfi and Smoldering Ashes, you will hear wildly varying musical interpretations from noise, alternative, experimental and progressive to hip hop and Americana.

Visit our last.fm page to hear audio samples and learn more. A few of the shorter videos will be uploaded to last.fm over the next couple of weeks.

To purchase the DVD go to our MMG, Inc. Shop. $9.95 plus shipping.

Call It Folk writes about The Outlaw

Music blogger Call It Folk writes about the 17 Pygmies new release "The Outlaw J.D. Ray".

From Blackwater, TN, comes a new CD release from 17 Pygmies, a group fronted by J.D. Ray, in various incarnations, since 1982. J.D. of 17 sent over some songs from their newest concept project "The Outlaw J.D. Ray". Jackson Del Ray and his posse use post-civil war folk music and pre-WWII blues as the backdrop to a story of ambition, deceit, and of course love lost and found (you know, basic tragedy stuff) and of course, redemption. Released on the indie label Trakwerx. Meg Maryatt sings heavenly on Captured in Amber, add slide guitar and some tender banjo background for an obvious pick for CIF. Like the songs on Tom Russell's concept album, "The Man From God Knows Where", these songs stand on their own despite being part of larger story. This is great Americana. Among other film score projects, 17 Pygmies perform a tune called Stay With Me, a Jackson Del Rey score set to the 1918 silent film "Tarzan of the Apes", based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' story, directed by Scott Sidney.

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