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‘Music is a magic’: how David Lynch used song and sound to transcend reality
He found global fame as a film-maker, but Lynch’s passion for music was life-long and resulted in work every bit as surreal as his movies
The Twin Peaks episode revealing the origins of Bob – a fearsome interdimensional entity – trades dialogue almost entirely for music, including Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody For the Victims of Hiroshima. There’s his reimagining of compositions by 12th-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen alongside Jocelyn Montgomery; his sparse ambient album Polish Night Music with Marek Zebrowski; and his team-up with John Neff on the gritty industrial blues record BlueBob. While Lynch had not made a feature film since 2006’s Inland Empire, or any major screen project at all since 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, he continued to make music until near the end of his life.
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