Friday, September 21, 2018

Dreaming of the Masters



Okay, if the Montreux Jazz Festival can do it, then we can do it too.  Anna von Hauswolff's music may be a lot of things (post-rock, goth, doom, folk-metal, etc.), but one thing she isn't is jazz.  No one ever has accused her of being a jazz musician or mistaken her music for jazz.

But great music is still great music, and if von Hausswolff can perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival, we can post her here in our Old School Fridays, DOTM series. Here's Goodbye from the LP Ceremony (2012). 

Interesting side note - that's not Anna in the video, although the girl looks just like her, or at least a younger version of her.  At first, I thought the clips might be from von Hausswolff home movies, or of some little sister of hers, but it's actually from a 1974 Czech film titled Robinsonka (Karel Kachyna, dir.).  

This is the young actress Miroslava Safránková:


And this is Anna von Hausswolff:


And here's the poster for Robinsonka (Czech for Robinson Girl).


Very clever mixture of image and music by original poster Sonya Kossta, who does this kind of thing a lot, and very skillfully done, too.

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