DeAD

Twang guitars, Space Echo, feedback and spring-reverb bass run through the film. A seemingly flawless portrait of wealthy family life is stripped of its rosy skin, slowly and painfully, by the arrival of a man who claims to be the patriarch’s long-lost son. The score moves with the images and against them — between the intact world, the fall, and pure indifference.

And then there is the unmistakable voice of Demented Are Go’s Marc “Sparky” Phillips, velvet and rust at once. Sven Halfar played me the voice. Get me his phone number, I said, and I’ll set up a recording session. Together with Dörte Benzner I wrote a handful of pieces, recorded them with Andreas Einhorn on guitar, Sebastian Harder on drums and Gunnar Kockjoy on trumpet, and brought Phillips to the studio in Hamburg for two days. Besides the title track “Dead”, two more of these songs found their way into the film. The complete soundtrack was released on vinyl by Crazy Love Records.