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After the experience of "Heartattack and wine", from 1980, Tom Waits decides to tackle a very romantic and touching soundtrack for a forgotten (but valuable) film by the great director Francis John Ford Coppola. Waits and his friend Gayle lead it, who duet in various songs and are capable of enchanting momentarily.
The album is released in 1982 by Columbia. Following this work will be what many consider Tom Waits' masterpiece, namely "Swordfishtrombones," which will mark the transition from the "Asylum" label to "Island."
Goodbye Los Angeles, goodbye night hawk, goodbye late and crooked serenades, open your eyes to a new, fantastic, abstract, angular world.
Tom Waits will continue to record albums, but never at that level, and in 2004 "Real Gone" (truly gone) arrives.
Among the most interesting experiments of this artist, we also remember "Mule Variations" (Mule Change), where he breaks contracts with major labels and reunites with old and new fans. Curious is the study of timbres in Waits' work.
An artist who should not be forgotten, unlike many songwriters who have emulated him, though.
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By gino
Tom, with an elegance that escaped many, captures the film’s key moments by borrowing the style from the great American sentimental song.
Not a fall at all, but a brilliant demonstration of the eclecticism of this great artist.
