Jordana

Over the last seventy years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities.

Blackstrobe Records has released a soundtrack album for the French period drama Curiosa. The album features the film’s original music composed by Arnaud Rebotini (BPM (Beats Per Minute), Eastern Boys, The Wind Turns). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out the full track list and listen to audio samples. Curiosa is co-written and directed by Lou Jeunet and stars Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camélia Jordana, Amira Casar and Scali Delpeyrat. The movie, which is set against the backdrop of the erotic photography scene of Belle Epoque Paris, has just been released in French theaters this week. No word yet on a domestic distribution deal.

Sun Ra is better known to most as a musician than a poet, but he identified equally as both. My Words Are Music provides direct access to the sentiments of a poet who never called Earth home. The spoken word album hosts an inspired array of artists who personally chose their favorite Sun Ra poems to recite. Freed from the page, his poetry acquires an unexpected simplicity and poignance it possessed all along.