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Listen to the soundtrack of ‘The Silencer’
Listen to the soundtrack of ‘The Silencer'.
Michael Caine demonstrates how a proper omelette is made in ‘The Ipcress File.’
Can a book have a soundtrack? Well, perhaps only in the mind of the writer. But if you like a little music, or are just curious, you might find a listen to some of these songs adds another layer of flavor to the scenes in which they are mentioned. Here are some YouTube links to the ‘track list highlights’. Just click and listen!
In Chapter 22, the protagonist, Jude Kilburn, attempts what was probably not the most impressive impersonation of actor Michael Caine in ‘The Ipcress File’ using a honeydew melon. John Barry’s score evokes quintessential Sixties espionage coolness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7...
Alex Kilburn sings a song made famous in the film ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’, ‘Down to the River to Pray’, in the final chapter as goatherd boy Liridon takes a step of faith. Here Alison Krauss sings it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbgfQ4...
Working off the premise that most people carry the pop music of their youth with them through their lives, I was looking for something that Alex Kilburn might sing that would speak about her mood in Chapter 9, as the pressures of life in a far away land mount up on her. Unlike myself, the Kilburns were students in the ’90s, and so I found it in Travis and ‘Why does it always rain on me?’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXatLO...
Just before tensions flare up between the married couple, Alex Kilburn sings the traditional gospel song ‘This Train is Bound for Glory’ in Chapter 17. This was my original choice for the title of the book, reflecting key elements of the story in both Jude’s and the antagonist’s lives. The sound quality of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s version is poor… so turn it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrhjg...
As Jude rides a ‘furgon’ (a minibus taxi) to the village of Shënvogël in Chapter 10, the driver puts The Human Leagues’ ‘Don’t you want me’ on the CD player. Surprising connections between them ensue and then the sing-along begins. “Such a clean sound,” says the Albanian driver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8...
With a suggestion of ‘His mercies’ that are to crown the story and enable Jude’s mission to succeed, Alex again sings this evergreen hymn in the final chapter. I stumbled upon these two ‘dudes’ giving it a really nice treatment: ‘Great is Thy Faithfulness’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWtWK...
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Michael Caine demonstrates how a proper omelette is made in ‘The Ipcress File.’
Can a book have a soundtrack? Well, perhaps only in the mind of the writer. But if you like a little music, or are just curious, you might find a listen to some of these songs adds another layer of flavor to the scenes in which they are mentioned. Here are some YouTube links to the ‘track list highlights’. Just click and listen!
In Chapter 22, the protagonist, Jude Kilburn, attempts what was probably not the most impressive impersonation of actor Michael Caine in ‘The Ipcress File’ using a honeydew melon. John Barry’s score evokes quintessential Sixties espionage coolness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7...
Alex Kilburn sings a song made famous in the film ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’, ‘Down to the River to Pray’, in the final chapter as goatherd boy Liridon takes a step of faith. Here Alison Krauss sings it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbgfQ4...
Working off the premise that most people carry the pop music of their youth with them through their lives, I was looking for something that Alex Kilburn might sing that would speak about her mood in Chapter 9, as the pressures of life in a far away land mount up on her. Unlike myself, the Kilburns were students in the ’90s, and so I found it in Travis and ‘Why does it always rain on me?’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXatLO...
Just before tensions flare up between the married couple, Alex Kilburn sings the traditional gospel song ‘This Train is Bound for Glory’ in Chapter 17. This was my original choice for the title of the book, reflecting key elements of the story in both Jude’s and the antagonist’s lives. The sound quality of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s version is poor… so turn it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrhjg...
As Jude rides a ‘furgon’ (a minibus taxi) to the village of Shënvogël in Chapter 10, the driver puts The Human Leagues’ ‘Don’t you want me’ on the CD player. Surprising connections between them ensue and then the sing-along begins. “Such a clean sound,” says the Albanian driver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8...
With a suggestion of ‘His mercies’ that are to crown the story and enable Jude’s mission to succeed, Alex again sings this evergreen hymn in the final chapter. I stumbled upon these two ‘dudes’ giving it a really nice treatment: ‘Great is Thy Faithfulness’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWtWK...
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