Nick Cave & Warren Ellid
White Lunar

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been creating music together for more than fifteen years, with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. They have also collaborated on soundtracks for a number of films. Originally released in 2009 through Mute Records, “White Lunar” is a two-disc, over 100-minute compilation containing music that Cave and Ellis composed for the movies and documentaries – “The Proposition” (2005), “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (2007), “The English Surgeon” (2007), “The Road” (2009), and “The Girls of Phnom Penh” (2009), along with a selection of their rare and previously unavailable archival cinematic scores. There is no any particular concept but the music flows naturally and elegantly dominated by sparse Cave’s piano and Ellis' violin playing. It can turn on aerial and dreamy, or intense and even threatening… there are also a couple of vocal tracks – but the content always remains amazingly picturesque while Cave and Ellis need no words to develop a very specific timeless aura through the album. The correlation between all album pieces is very strong, and “White Lunar” is perceived more as a grandiose cinematic act than an accidental collection of fragmented pieces recorded on different occasions. This is a must have for all lovers of Cinematic, Modern Creative, Contemporary Chamber, and Unclassified Music!