Nick Cave scores Cormac McCarthy’s The RoadWhile I don’t recommend reading the entire book in one rainy night alone, as I did, The Road by Cormac McCarthy is certainly a riveting, visceral work from one of my favorite authors. My friend Ben started reading it on a Kindle on our drive back from SXSW, and we lost him for the rest of the trip (with a headlamp after dark, even). It is a formidable book, all-absorbing and astounding.
I am quite curious for whatever I can learn about the upcoming film adaptation, featuring Viggo Mortensen and directed by Australian John Hillcoat. The musical score for The Road is being written by one of my other favorite Aussies, Nick Cave.
The two previously worked together on a few features - from Cave contributing writing and acting in Hillcoat’s 1989 movie Ghosts of the Civil Dead, to Hillcoat directing the 2003 music video feature for Nick’s song "Babe I’m On Fire". Cave also wrote the screenplay and soundtrack for Hillcoat’s 2005 film The Proposition.
The recent 4-minute BBC clip below unveils some of Nick Cave’s musical score for The Road for the first time - elegiac and stirring piano, which is an interesting choice. In my mind, the story in the book is accompanied by a deafeningly vacant amount of pure silence.
BBC Featurette - Nick Cave and Cormac McCarthy 
di cui una copia giace sulla mia scrivania 
la voglio 
collaborazioni? 
e se rifletto due secondi alla portata di ciò a cui dovrò probabilmente rinunciare vado in depressione senza via di ritorno.
