PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land HD

PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land -- The 4th Film, From A Series Of 12 Short Films, By Seamus Murphy

From the album 'Let England Shake'

A word from the director, Seamus Murphy;


The Glorious Land




As with the other films, I wanted to avoid too literal an interpretation of Polly's lyrics, but to try to remain true to the spirit and feel of the track. The Glorious Land was the third film we edited and completed in Berlin in the cycle of the 12 films, the first was The Words That Maketh Murder and the second was The Last Living Rose. Both editor, Sebastian, and I loved this track, and for me the bugle blast and where it sits is truly a glorious thing. It has the courage to be discordant, out of place and yet perfect on its own terms, surely the quality of great Art? At the first London show at the Troxy last week, when the bugle came in as they played The Glorious Land it was like experiencing the music floating high above the band and audience and hovering over all of us like a massive Jackson Pollack. And it swung.




I had noticed interesting things coming through the trees when driving around Dorset in October. Autumn colours, the sunlight streaming through the trees, the effect of movement during driving, how things changed if I speeded up or slowed down. How the angle at which the camera was held changed things so I started experimenting with shooting and driving. Some of this was shot through the car sunroof straight up into the sky, some deliberately overexposed and out of focus, to increase the abstraction. I particularly liked the white, washed-out look of the sky and how at times there are stretches of pure white. I originally had All And Everyone in my head for these images, but knew visually it could work elsewhere. But when we started editing The Glorious Land it became obvious it was made for it.

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[randinnnn]

the queen is back.

[blimao86]

Not only is this latest album by PJ Harvey not only great, it is her best, most deeply realized and mature work to date. It is now much more than merely music. Clearly, she is not one of us.

[TheNaomiengland]

This is really good.

[xAULISx]

9 people are massive Bieber fans

[Bobsherunkle]

It just oozes genius. I can't stop listening to this album. I'm like a little kid let loose in a sweety shop.

[horseytown]

I have been listening to PJ Harvey since 1993 and I haven't loved an album of hers as much since the Dance Hall at Louse Point/Is This Desire era. This is art, folks.

[m06een00]

@dano9008 No. She hasn't worked with him live since the Uh Huh Her tour in 2005, and he's featured in a dvd recording of that tour in 2006. Since then they seem to have parted company, musically.

[MissScotland94]

Absouletly fantastic

[dano9008]

Does Rob Ellis play on this one? It doesn't sound interesting enough to be him. PJ is very good and I love her from afar, but her music is at its best when he is involved. Or so it seems to me.

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

I think this record will be popular in 100 years from now. In fact, convinced it will. A genius of a record, maybe not yet realised.

[ggofthe]

@OnlyVideoGuyOnEarth That is the problem for people discovering the record after the Mercury prize. But when it came in the charts, it was a big surprise and for pj followers the certitude it was a very important record. We could'nt expect it would be so acclaimed...