{"id":534,"date":"2007-06-16T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/stoned-on-music-images-in-the-wild-blue-yonder\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:09:04","slug":"stoned-on-music-images-in-the-wild-blue-yonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Werner Herzog’s ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’ opens in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wild-Blue-Yonder<\/a>
\nBy Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

Werner Herzog’s rhapsodic documentary “The Wild Blue Yonder,” which just opened at London’s ICA and in other key U.K. cities, is a hugely entertaining exploration of inner and outer space.<\/p>\n

A breathtaking musical score by Dutch composer and cellist Ernst Reijseger enhances the picture’s remarkable images from NASA and deep-sea exploration. In my review from Venice in 2005, where it won the Fipresci (International Federation of Film Critics) Prize, I said “the soundtrack is destined for greater things.”<\/p>\n

But the score from a documentary was never going to break through to the major awards. The soundtrack, which features the voice of Senegalese soloist Mola Sylla and a five-man Sardinian shepherd choir, the Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, is available on an album titled “Requiem for a Dying Planet” from Allegro Music.<\/p>\n

The disc also features Reijseger’s score to Herzog’s 2004 rainforest documentary “The White Diamond.”<\/p>\n

Read my review of “Wild Blue Yonder”<\/a> and here’s a link to more about Werner Herzog and this\u00a0film<\/a> and the album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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