Here’s the deal on Foreign Cinema:
With a flicker of an 8mm reel, Foreign Cinema has created an audio
visual soundtrack–
Hey wait this sounds just like the restaurant! Sorry, please continue:
–with influences cross pollinating elements of shoegaze, trip hop, and dub. The band’s noir sound balances light and dark, with ethereal warmth and interjected groove to create a romantically dark world guided by interpretive lyrics about the human condition. Founded in 2008, the symbiotic core is comprised of Astral singer/guitarist, Dave Han of San Francisco and bass courtesy of Natty D from Goiania, Brazil.
They perform tonight at Brick & Mortar, and you can win tickets by telling us your best anecdote regarding Foreign Cinema the band, Foreign Cinema the restaurant, OR foreign cinema the type of cinema. Contest ends at 2pm today. Winners will be selected based on merit.
“with influences cross pollinating elements of shoegaze, trip hop, and dub” No thanks.
A day late, but who cares?
While studying in Vienna I had become increasingly isolated and weird which wasn’t being helped by the fact that I wasn’t really progressing in my German and slowly forgetting my English. One night, in frustration and greatly under the influence of some excellent locally purchased hashish, I just started taking trains and changing them until I had no idea where I was in the city. When I disembarked, I spied a cinema that was showing a retrospective of Werner Herzog’s films. I’d understood the night’s screening to be “Fitzcarraldo”, which I’d always wanted to see. The screening turned out to be for “Heart of Glass”, an earlier Herzog work in which he’d obtained most his actor’s performances under hypnosis. To say that it was context-shifting would be an understatement. 2 hours later, much more clear headed, I emerged from the theater gravely concerned about how I was going to find my way home, much less get there. It turned out that it was 1 block to my left.
Great story!