Gary Lucas Plays "The Golem"

Gary Lucas Plays "The Golem" - A five minute clip of the 1920 silent film classic "The Golem" (d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) with live solo guitar soundtrack by Gary Lucas, performed live at the Wintergarden Atrium in Manhattan in 1998 at a series organized by John Schaefer for his "New Sounds" program...."The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" (The New Yorker) debuted his live score, co-composed with his childhood friend Walter Horn, in 1989 at the Museum of the Moving Image on a commission from the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival in a duo format of guitar and keyboards. Their score can be heard on Gary's first solo album "Skeleton at the Feast" (available on iTunes). Since then Lucas has toured the world performing with the film in the solo format with high profile performances at Royal Festival Hall in London; the Venice Biennale; opening the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center; Tel Aviv's Next Festival; Krakow's Jewish Heritage Festival; closing Sao Paulo Brazil's SP Terror Festival; and of course in Prague, home of "The Golem". For more info please visit
http://garylucas.com/www/golem

Category:

Music

Tags:

• the golem
• gary lucas
• the unholy three
• sounds of the surreal
• monsters from the id
• captain beefheart
• psychedelic
• avant
• rock
• jazz
• blues
• expressionist
• silent
• cinema

[SebastianMelmoth]

Remarkably evocative.

[garylucas]

thank you sir!

gary

[Cessycat]

This is absolutely amazing - wonderul and evocative music, sir!:-)

[dltanner99]

Horror novel see video book trailer

[sprechstimme]

Gary Lucas is so cool! Everything that he does is great. Saw him a few times, once with Beefheart, and another time with his band, GODS & MONSTERS. All of his stuff is so creative. i just wish he'd play more concerts.

[LisaBreeBranch]

4 stars because of the music

[GoldenRoar]

Gary's magnum opus. As much as work of art as the film itself (no wonder a 6 year-old Vincent Price was so scared by it when his parents took him, he wet his pants!) GARY LUCAS 4EVR. Love, Lucy Chase Williams.

[cicatrizghost]

thank you so much for posting this mr.lucas. this is without a doubt the most beautiful thing that i've ever heard. i go on youtube simply to watch this, and the fact that it's set to the golem just makes it's perfection even greater.

[ChainLightning38]

Go to Gary's website. There is a DVD-R of The Golem for sale.

[katalukon]

I really hope there comes a DVD of Der Golem with Gary's soundtrack... this clip is amazing.

Perhaps the recording on Skeleton-at-the-Feast will sync up to the film?

[lithium68681]

Very intense.

[yhshvh10]

Thanks for the post!