Ravenna Festival
Musica&Visioni 4 - Weird Tales
Massimo Volume musicano dal vivo La caduta della casa degli Usher
(“La chute de la maison Usher”, regia Jean Epstein, 1928)
musicato dal vivo dai Massimo Volume
What has a forgotten film masterpiece of the ‘20s got to do with the most important Italian indie rock band? As Blake would have it, there is a “fearful symmetry”: after the cool ‘90s, with wonderful albums like Stanze and Lungo i bordi, Massimo Volume broke up in 2002 leaving a gap that could not be filled. But something unexpected happened six years later, when the group agreed to write new music for a 1928 silent film based on a tale by E. A. Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, directed by Jean Epstein and written by young Luis Buñuel, who would soon become a great master of surrealist cinema. On the film’s fantastic and horror images, the sound of Massimo Volume paints the future scenery of a reality transfigured by dream.