Flew

A film that helped to cement Jack Nicholson's reputation as an actor willing to take roles on the bleeding edge, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was also notable for giving director Milos Forman a solid position in American cinema…and for giving composer Jack Nitzsche a place to show what he could do. As it is, the edgy nature of the film extends into the score, giving it a profoundly disturbing feel at times – even when it appears to be relatively normal. The music has a tendency to always be a little off-kilter, and from time to time it tilts completely over into a strange little world of its own (something very familiar to fans of Van Dyke Parks, with whom Nitzsche worked quite a bit). It's a pity that this score has faded from sight over the time since its 1991 remastering; the music has certainly continued to stand up well over time.

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation, when he was playing crazy to avoid prison work detail.

After catching the attention of the growing americana-loving audience in Norway with 2012 debut Golden Town - the title a reference to her mother's hometown Golden, Colorado - Rustad secured her first Spellemann (Norwegian Grammy) nomination with critically acclaimed second album Hearing Colors Seeing Noises (2016). On upcoming third album, When Words Flew Freely, Rustad returns with the powerful, elastic voice and poetic lyrical style that has earned her a loyal fan base in Norway. The album's nine tracks revolve around traumatic life events, and the feeling of emotional stagnation, with a severe writer's block as a result.

Passenger est le nom du projet mené aux accents intimistes d'indie pop folkisante par l'auteur-compositeur-interprète britannique Mike Rosenberg. Initialement composé par quatre musiciens, Passenger voit le jour à Brighton sous la forme d'une collaboration entre Rosenberg et Andrew Philips dont naît un premier opus en 2007, Wicked Man's rest. Mais Philips quitte le navire, laissant Rosenberg seul aux commandes du projet pour lui livrer un successeur en 2009, Wide Eyes Blind Love, reflétant cette nouvelle incarnation via un son plus dépouillé et acoustique. En 2010, c'est Flight of the Crow qui voit le jour, suivi par un plus charnu All the Little Lights en 2013 puis Whispers en 2014.