Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
The Road

THE REVIEW

If your name is Nick Cave, you can also delve into cinema and bring to the big screen sinister sounds of dark beauty.

He already did it in 2005, accompanied by the bearded Warren Ellis in the western masterpiece "The Proposition" by Australian John Hillcoat. After another soundtrack created for another western like "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", the Australian returns to join Hillcoat in his latest cinematic endeavor: The Road.

Finding a way to accompany such a work is certainly a complicated task. Narrating through the skillful use of notes the loneliness generated by a world that has ended, of an almost nonexistent humanity, of the delicate relationship between father and son did not stop the artist's inventiveness, who punctually wanted the loyal violin of Warren Ellis by his side.

As you well know, music that comes from a film, taken out of its context, can seem unfounded. In this case, the duo's creation can be well interpreted both within the film and as "daily" listening. The work done by the delicate notes in the film is absolutely suitable to recreate with few and well-chosen pianistic solutions and the inevitable violin, the decaying and faded atmosphere of the feature film.

Outside of it, the 17 instrumental sections are nonetheless something sublime, delicate, and atmospheric, full of feeling. "The Far Road", "Memory", "The Beach", "The Church" are little gems that succeed in moving you. They are flowers that bloom in a world (that of the film but ultimately also ours) where they could no longer bloom. They are small fireflies of hope that save an orphaned child lost on the beach, between the black of the sea and the gray of the sky...

1. "Home" (2:04)
2. "The Road" (3:40)
3. "Storytime" (2:25)
4. "The Cannibals" (2:03)
5. "Water And Ash" (1:31)
6. "The Mother" (2:46)
7. "The Real Thing" (2:32)
8. "Memory" (3:42)
9. "The House" (3:16)
10. "The Far Road" (2:45)
11. "The Church" (1:34)
12. "The Journey" (4:14)
13. "The Cellar" (1:08)
14. "The Bath" (2:31)
15. "The Family" (3:41)
16. "The Beach" (3:45)
17. "The Boy" (3:11)