vena cava crystalarium playlist

vena cava fall 2009 collection: the crystalarium

music curated by gem hunter

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andreas vollenweider, “caverna magica”
amorphous androgynous, “mountain goat”
brian eno, “golden hours”
throbbing gristle, “20 jazz funk greats”
der zyklus, “quasar”
cocteau twins, “beatrix”
kate bush, “the dreaming”

gang gang dance, "bebey"

andy summers and robert fripp, “bewitched”
etienne daho, “arnold layne”
a mountain of one, “can’t be serious”
eloy, “horizons”

oppenheimer analysis, “radiance”

chris & cosey, "walking through heaven"
holger hiller, “das feuer (pilooski edit)”
cerrone, “supernature”
delia gonzalez & gavin russom, “black spring”
tangerine dream, “thru metamorphic rock”
jean-michel jarre, “oxygene part 3”
vangelis, “heaven and hell, Part 1”
claire hamill, “sleep”

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The Songs of Laura Mars

Barbra Streisand - Love Theme from the Eyes of Laura Mars (Prisoner)
Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant

The Eyes of Laura Mars is an 1978 American Giallo-horror film starring Tommy Lee Jones & Faye Dunaway. John Carpenter wrote the screenplay. Originally supposed to star Barbra who instead just sings the title song. I will acknowledge that I am posting a Streisand song on my blog, ok? Deal with it. It's a heavy sort of awesome quasi-Pat Benatar rock ballad. The rest of the soundtrack incorporates heavy doses of Sunshine band-style boogie disco, to match what may in fact be the worst collective set of hairstyles on any group of actors ever. Seriously Rene Auberjonis has this intense flowing mane, and Tommy Lee's locks are fairly creepy as well.

Dunaway's character is a shock-exploitative photographer obsessed with shooting pictures of violence and death. At the beginning of the film there's a gallery opening where they used Helmut Newton photos as her photos.

Here's a famous sequence where there's a photoshoot at Columbus Circle with models fighting and cars on fire:



"Let's All Chant" is a disco classic and I'm super-down with the song structure: bare, stripped and rhythm-centered, until all of a sudden there's a left-turn jolt and the chorus appears out of nowhere. A great jam that's been cover-version mangled a million times.