Nils Frahm och Woodkid samarbetar på nytt album med spoken word av Robert De Niro

Soundtracket till kortfilmen Ellis.

Den tyska kompositören Nils Frahm och den franska popartisten Woodkid gör tillsammans soundtracket till en kommande kortfilm om flyktingar. Filmen heter Ellis, regisseras av JR och i huvudrollen spelar Robert De Niro, som finns med på albumet i form av spoken word. Alla intäkter från filmen kommer att gå till flyktinghjälpsorganisationen Sea Watch.

Nils Frahm säger följande om projektet:

The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summers day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell into our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the Ellis soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.

Se trailern till Ellis nedan. Filmen hade premiär i oktober förra året på The New Yorker Festival och är skriven av Eric Roth som bland annat har skrivit Forrest Gump, Munich och The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Sountrackalbumet släpps den 8 juli på Erased Tapes.