Emperors of Rome ‘Sword in Hand’
Here’s another track from our Hansa sessions.
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The Sonettes continued: This is the Piano-top Jam in one of the set changeovers. On the opening night we were still short of a sketch between scenes… so Rufus’s voice came over the PA “Dom. Can you sit on the Piano?” “Yeah.” “OK good. Can you do something?” “Yeah, OK” “Good. Between scenes 9 and 10, ok?” “OK.” Then Bob goes “OK. Let ‘em in!”
This is a clip from ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ by Robert Wilson & Rufus Wainwright.
I’m part of the musical team in this show.
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‘Ambimorphous’
I wrote this back in 2002 for Hussein Chalayan. It was the opening piece at MOMU’s Ambimorphous exhibition, which Chalayan also curated:
“The aim of the project is to explore the shady territory between realism and surrealism, power and powerlessness. As an example I intend to examine the connections between Alice in Wonderland as a representation of a surreal entity, and war as a real life force. The surreal implications of macrocosmic and microcosmic scenarios in Alice in Wonderland where the objects around the central figure are larger or smaller have connotations of power and powerlessness in controllable or uncontrollable environments. The experience of modern -day war, anonymously violent, filtered, censored and almost recreated by the media does not remain a real life experience but becomes as surreal as Alice in Wonderland itself. The ultimate object is to demonstrate that man made theories of reality and our power over this reality can reverse, and that surreal situations themselves are a part of life and do not reamin as fragments of the imagination.” Hussein Chalayan
(Dir: Marcus Tomlinson)
‘The Recruitment’ directed by Abdeslam Kelai, for which I wrote the music, has been accepted in the Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan. It’s a powerful short film about the social conditions which can lead normal people being drawn into terrorism.
Ryuta Tanaka is a young Tokyo film director. I’ve now written music for two of his beautiful movies… and hope to write many more. Here’s a short medley of his work, to a piece called ‘Anyway I Loved Her’ which was part of one of the first film scores I wrote… for his film ‘The Donkey’.
Yesterday I went to the premiere Ryuta Tanaka’s no-budget comedy ‘+34’ at The Asian Hot Shots Festival at Moviemento, the oldest cinema in Germany. It’s the second of his films which I’ve been lucky enough to score (the first being ‘The Donkey’). For me, his work stood out from the crowd at this festival precisely because of it’s gentle albeit slightly demented humour. He’s not a shocker, but rather an original story teller motivated by what he finds amusing and compelling, placing value on engaging characters and clever twists. In fact I had to remind him of this fact, as he was worried it was ‘too soft’ due to much of the other work on show featuring ‘lots of dicks’.
Dicks or not… The festival is really cool in an awesome venue. Please click on the photo to check it out!
LIITLE WOLF TONIGHT: We’ll be playing a polite length set (20mins) tonight at LA54 as part of the Gross Berlin Exhibition opening party. Doors: 22.00, Address: Landsberger Allee 54: Berlin: Admission FREE
Little Wolf (me and alli) played our first ever fully electric set at the Rollberg brewery in Neukoelln, Berlin last Saturday. Luka made us Little Wolf badges for the occasion and operated the lights with our great friend Zoe Huxley (guess who’s great-niece) We played 4 songs: ‘Sword in Hand’ ‘Aeroplane’ ‘Lonely Girl’ and ‘Camel’ all of which we’re gonna record in the next week or so… It was a beautiful, stormy evening with torrential rain whipping at the sides of the stage, but it cleared just in time and a beautiful crowd appeared and accompanied us through our 20 minute trip. More very soon. xxx
THE PHONEY ISLAND KABARET Last night I played at the (soon to be) legendary PhoneyIsland Kabaret in Weisestrasse, Neukoelln. It’s one of the only places in the world where big name writers and movie stars share the stage (and hat) with buskers, flamenco dancers, puppeteers and drag queens - the whole unrehearsed rollercoaster being thrashed out for 3 hours by the Phoney Island Orchestra, a phenomenal group of world class musicians - including guys who’ve played with Tom Waits, Lou Reed and Nick Cave. It’s the brain child of my mate John Masters, who was behind some of the wildest radical performance theatre to ever stop traffic and mobilise the cops. He asked me to manage the music, so I brought in the genius of Hans-Joern Brandenburg (the man with the best address book in Berlin) to drive the monster. In my opinion, if anything represents the best of berlin… the side which can exist nowhere else in the world, this is it!!!! Check it out.
‘Coup de Soleil’ Director: Karim Debbagh Editor: Mark Reynolds Music: Dom Bouffard I composed/produced the soundtrack of ‘Coup de Soleil’ earlier this year. I’ve always been into north african music - maybe cos my dad’s Pied Noir - so it was a buzz to be asked. It was produced by Kasbah Films, a critically acclaimed production company from Tangiers I was introduced to by editor Mark Reynolds(The Future Is Unwritten) A few days ago I heard it’s been requested to show at the Dubai International Film Festival, which is one of the biggest in the arab world!!! Since then I’ve composed a second score for Kasbah Films, this time for a much darker movie called ‘The Recruitment’ - more about that when it’s finished…. For now you can see a short clip of “Coup de Soleil’ at: http://www.tapemusic.co.uk/video-3.html and check out Kasbah Films at
