Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Impressions...
Bizarre, fascinating, filled with great cinematography and excellent music. Musician Jim White and film-maker Andrew Douglas take you on a surreal trip through the American South... swamps, Pentecostal churches, bars, jails and trailer homes.
The Guardian writes:
"White says that 'sometimes I'm labelled an oddball', but he must have been called worse things than that. His life story has been a hair-raising ride through rejection, drug abuse and breakdowns, except for the past few years when he finally found his identity, and began making some of the most haunting, tantalising music you could wish to hear. Drill a Hole is his third album for David Byrne'sLuaka Bop label, following on from Wrong-Eyed Jesus and No Such Place, and it's remarkable for the way it blends White's dense imagery with a funk/blues/Cajun/ambient fusion that seems to exist as much in the mind as in a defined physical space.
It was the Wrong-Eyed Jesus album that seized the attention of film-maker Andrew Douglas, whose documentary for the BBC's Arena, Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, uses White's music and natural talents as a mythologiser as guides on a mysterious journey through the hinterlands of the American south. From bayou shacks to trailer parks, ecstatic Pentecostal services to the Where Jesus is Lord truckstop diner, it illuminates a land that time forgot, riddled with folklore, poverty, raw and soulful folk music and a sense of holy dread that most city-dwellers have lost touch with."
Film site
Amazon soundtrack link. (Song recommendation: Still Waters)
Bizarre, fascinating, filled with great cinematography and excellent music. Musician Jim White and film-maker Andrew Douglas take you on a surreal trip through the American South... swamps, Pentecostal churches, bars, jails and trailer homes.
The Guardian writes:
"White says that 'sometimes I'm labelled an oddball', but he must have been called worse things than that. His life story has been a hair-raising ride through rejection, drug abuse and breakdowns, except for the past few years when he finally found his identity, and began making some of the most haunting, tantalising music you could wish to hear. Drill a Hole is his third album for David Byrne'sLuaka Bop label, following on from Wrong-Eyed Jesus and No Such Place, and it's remarkable for the way it blends White's dense imagery with a funk/blues/Cajun/ambient fusion that seems to exist as much in the mind as in a defined physical space.
It was the Wrong-Eyed Jesus album that seized the attention of film-maker Andrew Douglas, whose documentary for the BBC's Arena, Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, uses White's music and natural talents as a mythologiser as guides on a mysterious journey through the hinterlands of the American south. From bayou shacks to trailer parks, ecstatic Pentecostal services to the Where Jesus is Lord truckstop diner, it illuminates a land that time forgot, riddled with folklore, poverty, raw and soulful folk music and a sense of holy dread that most city-dwellers have lost touch with."
Film site
Amazon soundtrack link. (Song recommendation: Still Waters)
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