Fresh from releasing their debut EP, 'Nocturnes', collecting four nominations at the SA Music Awards and returning home from a successful Australian tour, Adelaide noir-alt-rock outfit Koral & The Goodbye Horses announce more dates.
'Nocturnes' is the soundtrack to long nights spent on the open road, travelling heavy with heartbreak as you leave everything behind. Throughout the record, Koral’s haunting vocals shift between twisted lullaby to world-weary rage, with spacious guitars and driving drumbeats providing an atmospheric backdrop. It’s grown-up rock that’s raw, honest and a little screwed up.
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Koral also fancies herself as a film scorer. Here are five films she wishes she had scored.
1. Scarface
When I saw this film I had no idea who Giorgio Moroder was, but I got my first taste of my weird obsession with film soundtracks... and I REALY wanted to get a synthesizer. I think I had to watch the film three or four times to actually concentrate on the storyline instead of the music.{youtube}aKv1_GfxFZY{/youtube}
2. Snowtown
Adelaide Festival 2014, the Artistic Director David Sefton (the total legend) invited Jed Kurzel (ex-Mess Hall fame) to perform his score to one of the most intensely dark movies to come out of this country - 'Snowtown'. I don't know how he managed to create something so incredibly claustrophobic yet maddeningly beautiful. Perfect.{youtube}Qj5C5Ptaiug{/youtube}
3. Deadman
Neil Young with distorted guitars and heaps of delay pedals. Yes. Please. Jim Jarmusch made a few great decisions with this movie: the casting, the grayscale and most importantly, the music. This collaboration between filmmaker and musician inspired me to hit-up the talented screen magician Aaron Schuppan for my first clip.{youtube}fi-S9lrnLZ8{/youtube}
4. This Is Spinal Tap
I can't pinpoint one thing that makes this soundtrack so genius – perhaps it's the time when Nigel Tufnel's experimental solo involved one guitar being played with a violin and another being played with his foot. Perhaps it's all three guitarists wielding bass guitars for the song 'Big Bottom' (which includes the pure poetry of 'the bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'). Whatever it is, it is genius and I wish I wrote all the songs.{youtube}FfhphrmKdsg{/youtube}
5. The Lion King
This may be lame to some, but I'm sticking with this decision. Basically blockbuster, soundtrack wizard Hans Zimmer teams with Elton John and Tim Rice and score my childhood. I listened to that soundtrack more times than my family want to remember... well this AND the theme to 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I loved that song.{youtube}hSFKnYD5rp4{/youtube}
Koral & The Goodbye Horses Tour Dates
Sun 8 Nov - The Wheatsheaf Hotel (Adelaide)Fri 20 Nov - The Spotted Mallard (Melbourne)
Sun 22 Nov - The Union (Sydney)
Sat 19 Dec - Grace Emily Hotel (Adelaide)
