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1. Hi, i was at your performance of man of aran in green man a couple of weeks ago. being from the west of ireland i was hugely excited at seeing this, i knew seeing it in a dedicated setting would allow me to really appreciate it, more so then from my living room, and to have your soundtrack played live was a very special addition. I was extremely impressed that an indie band would undertake such a project. Listening to the soundtrack separately from the documentary, i enjoyed it, however, for me, it doesnt work with the documentary. It was still indie music. The documentary as you know is very far removed from our lives, the music is not. Watching the documentary, it is not guaranteed that you will understand it. It is very difficult to put yourselves in their shoes, to understand why they live like this and how. It takes empathy and imagination, and the ability to go beyond your experiences and your perceptions, as formed by the modern world. I am not saying that you personally havent achieved this, but the music didnt accompany an understanding of the documentary. For example, the scene where the young boy is searching along the beach for cockles and mussles, this scene almost requires a complete paradigm shift in order to understand the boys mentality. We rarely experience commitment in the modern world. We always have other things on our mind. We are waiting for work to finish, we are tense due to a future appointment. We are impatient, always moving, always thinking, always waiting. recently i saw a sycamore leaf on the ground in my garden and studied it. I remembered that as a child i knew every little line of these leaves as they were all over my garden. Back then i had no concept of time. When i looked at these leaves i was thorougly in the moment, commited to that time and to that examination, with no purpose in mind, no story building in my head, once the moment was past it was gone. I cannot go back to that state of mind now, as an adult. That young boy in man of aran did not have a warm cosy couch and a tv to go home to, nor the promise of a computer game or some other distraction. He was on the beach. He knew only the present. Time was irrelevant. Its impossible to describe accurately in words. The presence of a drum beat, a standard rock drum beat during this moment seemed absurd to me to be honest. To reflect the reality of the visual experience the music would have to have no next step, no progression, no ending or beginning. You would have to play, improvise even, with only the current note in your head, not knowing or caring where it is going. A drum beat, a structured, typical, timed, modern beat does not belong. Anyway, i did enjoy it but these are my thoughts on it’s suitability. i dont know how you would do it, but for it to be true you would have to remove yourselves from your musical influences, styles, habits, as much as the lives described by the documentary are removed from ours, which is the power of the documentary in the first place.

   — Michael · 8. September 2009 · #

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