Ralfe Band plays Bunny and The Bull
Ralfe Band, whose music has been described as “an inspired set of star-gazing psychedelia” (Metro), has released two studio albums - Swords (2005) and Attic Thieves (2008). Their latest offering is the soundtrack to The Mighty Boosh director Paul King’s latest feature film, Bunny and The Bull (2009), from which they’ll be playing the full song versions live in the Caught By The River tent.
Bunny and The Bull is an extraordinary visual feast featuring the crème-de-la-crème of British comedy talent, including Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt and Richard Ayoade, A comedy road movie set entirely in a flat, it’s a story of love, disillusionment, stuffed bears and globalised seafood, that’s an offbeat and heartfelt journey to the end of the room.
Working with Paul King has been an exciting next step for Ralfe Band’s songwriter and composer Oly Ralfe and drummer, guitarist and arranger Andrew Mitchell. It’s also been a chance to really experiment. “The music is meant to have a magical, unreal quality, like the film itself,” explains Oly. “I have always been inspired by film music; Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for Once Upon A Time in The West, Bernard Herrman’s score for Vertigo, the music of Emir Kustirica films like Underground, David Lynch’s Mullholland Drive and Neil Young’s soundtrack to Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch. Not forgetting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Wizard of Oz… Creating a film soundtrack was a great way to make music outside the album format.”
“They were the best of collaborators,” says Paul King. “I’d made suggestions of where I wanted music and given them vague references. They’d completely ignored me, done their own thing, and I never wanted to change a note. It would be absurdly arrogant to say it was just as I imagined it. If I could imagine music like that I would never have picked up a camera. It’s blindingly, blisteringly, barnstormingly better than I could ever have imagined - and the one thing about the film I would never, ever want to change.”
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“A whiskey-soured folk trip, from east to west… Ralfe’s moon-eyed beauty is simply the work of one vivid imagination.”
MOJO ****
Links:
- Interview with Ralfe Band in This Festival Feeling
Video:
Watch the official trailer for Bunny and The Bull:
