Sorry rest of the world. You’re out of luck again. And I don’t mean to be smug at all; this is the reason I can’t leave New York (yes i can). David Gordon Green (“George Washington,” All The Real Girls”) long-awaited, and waiting-in-limbo, “Snow Angels” was a Sundance hit… in 2006, but the film didn’t find instant distribution and has been sitting on the shelves for sometime now (Green is already working on “Pineapple Express,” more on that later.) The film is finally getting distribution from Warner Bros. in 2008, but the Brooklyn Academy of Music
will have its second annual Sundance at Bam series from May 31-June 10, and DGG’s “Snow Angels” will have its New York premiere (thanks to Take The Money and Run)
Followers of the Playlist (nobody) will know that we (me) are big fan(s) of DGG, but we’re also big fans of David Wingo and Michael Linnen, the two musicians who have composed much of the scores to Green’s films (except for “Undertow” which has an unfortunate score by Phillip Glass — though Wingo/Linnen composed a few elements here and there).
We were lucky enough to get our hands on some of David Wingo’s solo project before he renamed it Ola Podrida and we included it in our (my) If I Were David Gordon Green imaginary soundtrack. So check out the Ola Podrida song “Instead” on that playlist. It’s ffff’ing gorgeous.
Wingo also scored some of “Snow Angels,” but my questions is this: what happened to Michael Linnen? (I know he has bands, Monroe Mustang, Pilot Ships, that are active, inactive?) Not sure if they’re still working together on DGG film scores or what which would be a shame cause they were so amazing together. But Wingo’s pretty fine on his own too.
I think it’s pretty amazing that you know who Wingo and Linnen are. Or Pilot Ships for that matter. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in my geeked out, over-researched music universe. Glad to know that is not the case.