Angelo Badalamenti's touch

[omar]

If Angelo Badalmenti(Of Twin Peaks) fame wer to remix or re-arrange some of The Carpenters songs which ones would you choose? I think his haunting production would work best on:


1.someday
2.ticket to ride
3.superstar
4.a place to hideawy
5.sometimes
6.road ode
7.crystal lullaby
8.crescent noon
9.a song for you
10.aurora
11.he came here for me

[Rob813]

OK I'm showing my age again. Who's Angelo Badalmenti?

[Sammy]

I asked the same question. Who is Angelo Badalamenti? So I did a web search and this is what I found.

Perhaps Angelo Badalamenti's most instantly recognisable music is the main theme for the TV series "Twin Peaks". This has two features characteristic of Badalamenti's music. Firstly, there is a certain pop quality (with strong hints of jazz and a certain weird country feel) to the theme and the other themes frequently used on the series. Secondly, the series' success marked a key point in his association with director David Lynch which had started a couple of years earlier on "Blue Velvet". David Lynch has often been heavily involved in the musical aspects of his films, often co-writing songs. "Wild at Heart" has a couple of cues which remind us of Twin Peaks with its walking chromatic bass and drum kit stroked gently by brushes. It includes some suitably wild songs, some co-writing by David Lynch, an excerpt from "Im Abendrot" (one of the "Last Four Songs") by Richard Strauss and Nicolas Cage doing his Elvis impression.

Badalamenti has gone on to create or arrange a number of successful pop songs, sometimes under the name "Andy Badale" and collaborated with Tim Booth on "Booth & The Bad Angel". His darker films (usually for Lynch) tend to have a slow, seedy, jazz quality, often scored for a small band or group including the use of synthesisers. He has continued to work with Lynch, on TV work and also films like "Wild at Heart" and most recently on "Mulholland Drive" (in which the composer has yet another cameo role as a nasty character who can't seem to find the perfect coffee). In "Arlington Road" with its topical FBI conspiracy theories, he illustrated Jeff Bridges' haunted past with some dreamy sampled electronica, and used to good effect his trademark repetitive pop-driven cues for tension building and action sequences.

[steve]

I am also a bit "OUT OF TOUCH" as I didnt know who angelo Badalamente was and also have never seen "Twin Peaks"!! Boy am I bad!! I will check out Angelo,now though!!Thanks Omar!! LOL!! Steve