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"The Forger's Tale" set for New Film
"The Forger's Tale", a new song by Steve Mednick will appear in the upcoming film "Fake", which is having its debut on June th at the Hoboken Film Festival.
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"La Collaborazione Dei Due: At The Ferndale Valley Sanctuary, Vol. I" Bill Curry Liner Notes |
| Posted on May 07 2010 |
The River Rolls On… Great music has a way of being, all at once, utterly original and instantly familiar. Stumbling on to it is like the first sighting of the unmet friend, the chance encounter with the stranger you’ve always known. I felt that way hearing Steve Mednick and Eddie Seville’s LA COLLABORAZIONE DEI DUEfor the very first time. There were echoes of old voices and currents from every stream that fed the river. Then the feel of something fresh and clear, of hearing the old made new. Take the haunting opening number, Toulouse Reprieve. A sultry, sensuous dream, a foreboding of death and then, if not redemption, a way out—which is as close to redemption as many of us get. The rhythm, a sort of bayou-voodoo-skiffle, lightens things just enough while nailing the song’s extraordinary sense of place. All so familiar. All so new. The pace picks up a notch with Ten Signs. As in Toulouse, the music comes first -- just like it’s supposed to -- but the lyrics come right behind. Word and song don’t just reinforce each another. Each alters the other just enough to add a layer of meaning. In Ten Signs a meandering guitar teases out the hope in the lyric. Steve and Eddie hail from the great old mill town of Waterbury Connecticut, but Lone Star Serenade could waft through a honky-tonk bar anywhere. Call it Country and Eastern. No matter the color of your state, broken hearts hit the road. The rousing Crash and Burn is an anthem for the sons of all the old mill towns…it’s a standout, even here. We live in a time when artists seem to mix it all up--personal and political, body and soul. In Man on the Road, a moving elegy, and Castles, a cry of the heart and an indignant demand, Collaborazione is at its most socially aware and politically explicit. Here’s the good news: it works. Howard’s End and Walking on Faith are odes to the power of music and love. Here the words and the music walk hand in hand. Beautiful. The overpowering Love’s Got A Hold provides a stunning finish to an eclectic CD, bound together by a message of hope and a reverence for its own roots. The river rolls on…
Bill Curry
Farmington, CT