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From The Desk Of Thalia Zedek: “Until The End Of The World” Soundtrack

ThaliaZedekLogo It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. Hard, noirish, frequently violent in its approach to blues patterns and styles slowed to a molasses-drip pace, few bands hit as heavy as Come. And few musicians, in Come or elsewhere, came as hard to the stage and the studio as Thalia Zedek. Now comes Via (Thrill Jockey), a record that finds her striking off in new aesthetic and collaborative territory. Zedek will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on her.

UntilTheEndOfTheWorld

Zedek: My favorite soundtrack is the one to Wim Wender’s Until The End Of The World. I got it on cassette in the mid-’90s and wore it out over the next couple dozen years. I never actually saw the movie until a friend surprised me by getting me a VHS of it on Amazon. (It never made it to DVD.) It starred William Hurt, Max von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau, among others! But having listened to the soundtrack for some 20 years before having seen the movie, the visuals were stunningly similar to what I was seeing in my head. An amazing movie, but better yet, an incredible soundtrack! Check it out if you can find it.

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