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Xiu Xiu Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks (Video)

Experimental post-punk group Xiu Xiu was commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art in Australia to provide a new interpretation of the music from Twin Peaks for a special performance accompanying the David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition.
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Xiu Xiu plays the music of Twin Peaks

UPDATE: As a Record Store Day 2016 exclusive, Polyvinyl Records is releasing Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks on April 16, 2016. Scroll down for the track listing, the cover, their recording of Julee Cruise’s Falling and an official video for Nightsea Wind & Into The Night.

UPDATE #2: The 2XLP has sold out, but a second pressing expected August 19, 2016 is now available for pre-order.

Experimental post-punk band Xiu Xiu was commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art in Australia to provide a new interpretation of the music from Twin Peaks, emphasizing its chaos and drama, for a special performance accompanying the David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition. Band leader Jamie Stewart explains his love for the soundtrack by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti:

The music of Twin Peaks is everything that we aspire to as musicians and is everything that we want to listen to as music fans. It is romantic, it is terrifying, it is beautiful, it is unnervingly sexual. The idea of holding the ‘purity’ of the 1950s up to the cold light of a violent moon and exposing the skull beneath the frozen, worried smile has been a stunning influence on us. There is no way that we can recreate Badalamenti and Lynch’s music as it was originally played. It is too perfect and we could never do its replication justice. Our attempt will be to play the parts of the songs as written, meaning, following the harmony melody but to arrange in the way that it has shaped us as players.

Xiu Xiu performs the music of Twin Peaks

Xiu Xiu performs the music of Twin Peaks

Xiu Xiu performs the music of Twin Peaks

Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks at QAGOMA

In this 14-minute extract from their Twin Peaks tribute show on Saturday, April 18 at the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque, Xiu Xiu performs The Pink Room/Blue Frank, Sycamore Trees, The Bookhouse Boys and Packard’s Vibration. Would you be interested in hearing the entire set? Let’s hear it in the comments below.

Xiu Xiu performs the music of Twin Peaks

Xiu Xiu performs the music of Twin Peaks

Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks | ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ at QAGOMA

The band explains how they approached the project. This video includes snippets from their live interpretations of Laura Palmer’s Theme, the Twin Peaks Theme, Sycamore Trees, Freshly Squeezed, Harold’s Theme and The Pink Room.

Shayna Dunkelman: vibraphone, drum set, keyboard
Angela Seo: synth, percussion, noise
Jamie Stewart: vox, guitar, synth and noise

Bonus: HEXA Factory Photographs (extract)

HEXA is a project by Lawrence English and Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) exploring the physicality of sound and its ability to infiltrate and occupy the body. For the exhibition ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ at the Gallery of Modern Art, HEXA presented a new composition responding to Lynch’s photographs of disused factories. Using the factory photographs as both a literal and metaphoric source, their performance drew root from the texture of Lynch’s images, the imagined and actual spaces, and the spectral histories contained within them.

Commissioned for ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ at the Gallery of Modern Art, 14 March – 7 June 2015
Recorded: Saturday 18 April 2015, Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art

Sound: Peet Gardner
Camera: Mia Forrest, Denny Ryan
Editing: Judy Yeh, Mia Forrest

Xiu Xiu Plays The Music of Twin Peaks Tour

Keep an eye on their tour page for the latest details.

UPDATE: Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks LP

Xiu Xiu’s interpretation of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, mixed by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and pressed on 180g red and blue vinyl in a gatefold jacket with a download code, will be released by Polyvinyl Records on Record Store Day 2016 (4/16/2016). Here’s the cover, track listing and the album recordings of “Falling” and “Into The Night.”

Xiu Xiu – Falling

Xiu Xiu – Nightsea Wind & Into The Night (Video)

Official video (via Pitchfork) directed by Diego Barrera.

 

Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks – Tracklist

  1. Laura Palmer’s Theme
  2. Into the Night
  3. Audrey’s Dance
  4. Packard’s Vibration
  5. Nightsea Wind
  6. Blue Frank/Pink Room
  7. Sycamore Tree
  8. Harold’s Theme
  9. Dance of the Dream Man
  10. Falling
  11. Love Theme Farewell
  12. Josie’s Past

Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks.

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What's your response to this?

19 comments

  1. Damn says:

    release it as a bluray and lp combo!

  2. John J says:

    I would buy the LP! Is there any way we could get more of this on YouTube?

  3. kski says:

    you should definitely press an LP of this

  4. genova says:

    This is too cool. PLEASE post the rest of the set!!

  5. A4+ says:

    Bring it on. Sounds excellent and on note for the new season.

  6. ISMAEL says:

    please, need more

  7. Sarax says:

    OMG, PLEASE POST THE ENTIRE THING!!!! This is mindblowingly awesome!!!!!!!!

  8. Markcy says:

    Please give whole thing o god please

  9. Aron says:

    Yes! We need to see the full thing!

  10. John says:

    They simple HAVE to release this music.

  11. delphine barbillon says:

    Please make a lp of the whole gig! Sounds so good! I would like to hear the divine Chrysta Bell singing too!

  12. Adam says:

    Please release all of this!!! I WILL buy it.

  13. fryle says:

    please please please, release it all. i would literally pay for this. please please please take my money.

  14. Max says:

    PLEASE POST MORE

  15. David Sanchez says:

    Saw them last night in Poland. It was amazing.

  16. Anders says:

    christ almighty… please post more

  17. Stefan says:

    This would have been amazing to see in Bucharest. Definately a fullhouse. Too bad the tour doesn’t include Bucharest as well..

  18. Ann says:

    I saw their show in Poland (on OFF Festival) – it was beautiful, breathtaking, oneiric, magnificent. I just felt like I moved into the world of Twin Peaks..

  19. bernie sanders says:

    Post the whole set! I like this.

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