The Last Wave


Roundtable 11/11/2016 Vinyl (643597936576)
Movie Film release: 1977
 

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# Track   Duration
Side One
1.Driving Home 
2.The Vault 
3.David's Dream 
4.Man in the Street 
5.Angels 
6.The Warning 
# Track   Duration
Side Two
1.Driving Near Bridge 
2.The Acceptance 
3.Black Rain 
4.The Descent 
5.Charlie Charlie 
6.The Drowned World 
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The Last Wave

Added on Tuesday, May 24, 2016  

The Last Wave

The Last Wave (also known as Black Rain in the US) was the final chapter in a trilogy of films scripted and directed by the leading auteur of the Australian New Wave, Peter Weir. Beginning in 1974 with the absurdist black comedy-horror The Cars That Ate Paris, and followed a year later by the lush gothic mystery Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Last Wave was a landmark in existential horror. Sitting alongside other Australian eco-terror films (e.g. Long Weekend) the film featured a haunting electronic soundtrack that is as mysterious and beguiling as the spiritual themes of the film itself. With no LP issued after the film’s premiere in 1977, and together with the mystery surrounding the true identity of its enigmatic composer ‘Charles Wain’, the score is a largely unheard recording of pioneering experimental film electronics, easily compared to the music that contemporaries Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream were composing for Australian films during the same period or the electronic soundtracks of John Carpenter. Tense atonal electronics, synthesizer drones and m​anipulated Didjeridu all perfectly capture the film’s ominous atmosphere, punctuating the slow hypnotic pace of this brooding supernatural thriller.

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Other releases of The Last Wave (1977):

Last Wave, The (2019)


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