Con­ti­nuing the Todd Solondz theme, here is the catchy tune from Wel­come to the Dollhouse, a film I hap­pen to have an ori­gi­nal thea­tri­cal pos­ter for. The track is by Rey and Wisoff.

From the unre­lea­sed and unplan­ned sound­track to Todd Solondz’s Palin­dro­mes comes the child­like inno­cent ‘la la la’ theme from Nathan Lar­son. For more of Nathan’s work I recom­mend his web­site where he claims to make “music to order” and this track is avai­la­ble for down­load for free. In Nathan’s own words:

I got to rip off the ROSEMARY’S BABY sound­track, colla­bo­ra­ted again with my wife Nina, always a plea­sure; plus it was the first fea­ture I did almost enti­rely on the lap­top with which I write you now, at the now defunct Globe Stu­dios, over­loo­king the Meat Pac­king Dis­trict in New York City in it’s final days. Once a strange, nasty, and won­der­ful area, it’s now one big high-end desig­ner out­let mall like everything else. Anyhoo, PALINDROMES has been very well recie­ved at the usual round of fes­ti­vals, and appa­rently it’s been sold, thank God, as Todd paid for it him­self , thus ris­king total finan­cial annihial­tion. Balls.

El Perro del Mar is the band of singer/songwriter Sarah Ass­bring from Gothen­burg, Swe­den. She desc­ri­bes her pro­ject as “the name of the music that I had been drea­ming of and plan­ning on making for a long time.” Her style is very remi­nis­cent of 60’s French pop; rela­xed, care-free music and som­bre yet child-like vocals.

This track is entit­led “It’s all good” and is avai­la­ble free from Last​.fm (where this is strea­med from).

This track is the first of two parts, entit­led “You’re going to leave the old home Jim”. I dis­co­ve­red this track on the album “Before the Blues, vol. 2″ under the Yazoo label.

I have since seen it on “Female Country Blues Vol.1″ with 7 other magi­cal tracks. Howe­ver this still remains my favou­rite, it has a sublime quaint­ness and that power­ful fee­ling of nos­tal­gic melancholy. This song was crea­ted bet­ween 1924 and 1928 and is clas­si­fied in the pre-war blues genre.

From the sound­track to Everything is Illu­mi­na­ted and desc­ri­bed on the last​.fm wiki:

“[As an artist that com­bi­nes] ele­ments of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian caba­ret, Gogol Bor­de­llo tells the story of New York’s immi­grant dias­pora through debauchery, humor, and surreal cos­tu­mes. Lea­der and sin­ger Eugene Hütz’s taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birth­day Party and Einstür­zende Neu­bau­ten in his native Ukraine.”