"Actor: Brant Bjork"

• Sabbia | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Music though the most transitory of art forms often has the power to create a palpable sense of time and space. Film is especially suited to being enhanced and deepened by music. When the two meet the results can be banal uneven or brilliant - but they're best when they're surprising. Such is the case with Sabbia a collaboration between musician Brant Bjork and filmmaker Kate McCabe. The vastness of the deserts their sweep and scope and giant emptiness waiting to be filled with raw sound has always been prominent in Bjork's music and it finds suitable expression in McCabe's airy unethered visualization of those parts of California where 'wasted' describes the landscape instead of the people. Conjuring in bits and pieces everything from Van Sant's Gerry to Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands Bjork & McCabe's Sabbia crowds with the empty desert with sights and sounds that seem not so much natural as inevitable. Leonard Pierce. Featured tracks: 1. El Rolo 2. Future Freak 3. Let The Truth Be Known 4. Nectar Alamo 5. Fresh Coffee 6. Rock 'n' Role 7. Cobra Jab 8. Hindra 65 Return Flight 9. Ultimate Kickback 10. Kaleidoscope 11. Heavy Nature 12. Shrine 13. Palm Tree Reader 14. Cool Abdul 15. Drums & Cocktails 16. Joint Ritual