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Haiku Salut & Meg Morley - The Lost Score

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Haiku Salut & Meg Morley ~ The Lost Score

The Lost Score is not actually a lost score, but a new score to the silent German film “People on Sunday” (1930), whose original soundtrack was classical and operatic.  Viewed after a century of perspective, the film is an oddity and in some ways a puzzle.  Not a lot happens save for people going about their lives, filling leisure hours with boating and floating, shopping and smoking.  The film…

Haiku Salut & Meg Morley ~ The Lost Score

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A silent film from 1930 gets a new voice, and the voice it gets is stranger and more honest than the one it was born with. The Lost Score pairs Haiku Salut — the Swedish trio known for their percussive intricacy — with Melbourne jazz pianist Meg Morley, writing fresh accompaniment for “People on Sunday,” a German film whose original classical score could never have known what was coming. The film itself is a puzzle: ordinary people filling leisure hours, boating, flirting, smoking. Viewed now, that carefree surface carries the weight of everything that followed. Haiku Salut and Morley hear that weight and write it in. “What About Tomorrow?” opens with synth that already feels like a question the 1930 score never thought to ask. Morley turns tender mid-piece, as if offering an elegy for the women on screen. “Needle Drop” is the trio at their sharpest — percussion interlocking, Morley’s keys pushing the whole thing forward. “Toxic” arrives like a confession, the mid-section drums pausing and restarting, the tension building through silence as much as sound. The Lost Score by Haiku Salut & Meg Morley “You Made Sunday” closes the album in a cavalcade of brass, the widest emotional moment in a record full of them. The original score occupied a narrow range. This one refuses that constraint.

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Haiku Salut & Meg Morley — The Lost Score: New Music for a Vanished World

A silent film from 1930 gets a new voice, and the voice it gets is stranger and more honest than the one it was born with. The Lost Score pairs Haiku Salut — the Swedish trio known for their percussive intricacy — with Melbourne jazz pianist Meg Morley, writing fresh accompaniment for “People on Sunday,” a German film whose original classical score could never have known what was coming.

The film itself is a puzzle: ordinary people filling leisure hours, boating, flirting, smoking. Viewed now, that carefree surface carries the weight of everything that followed. Haiku Salut and Morley hear that weight and write it in.

“What About Tomorrow?” opens with synth that already feels like a question the 1930 score never thought to ask. Morley turns tender mid-piece, as if offering an elegy for the women on screen. “Needle Drop” is the trio at their sharpest — percussion interlocking, Morley’s keys pushing the whole thing forward. “Toxic” arrives like a confession, the mid-section drums pausing and restarting, the tension building through silence as much as sound.

The Lost Score by Haiku Salut & Meg Morley

“You Made Sunday” closes the album in a cavalcade of brass, the widest emotional moment in a record full of them. The original score occupied a narrow range. This one refuses that constraint.

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Down the Shaft, watching silent movies

Down the Shaft, watching silent movies

Psst … this just in from the whisper network. There’s a new silent movie venue in town and it’s strictly underground.

I mean, it’s literally underground: underneath a candlelit garden, at the entrance to one of the capital’s engineering masterpieces the Thames Tunnel. Cocktail experts Midnight Apothecary have founded a night called the Down the Shaft Film Club to screen classics in this unique…

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