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Baraka alternate soundtracks on youtube

plant — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:35:58 -0800

Baraka (previously) alternate soundtracks on youtube: Clint Mansell, Omni Trio, the Beatles, Chris Clark, and Buraka Som Sistema (warning: contains M.I.A., nudity).

And there's more.. a variety of DIY efforts: 1, 2, 3, 4.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:42:52 -0800

You forgot the best one!

By: idiopath

idiopath — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:54:54 -0800

What some people don't know about that the Kecak ritual (the one with the waving fingers, featured in phrontist's link), is that it is a bunch of Muslims performing a telling of Hindu mythology as choreographed and arranged by a German Christian in the 1930's, with the primary theme based on a Pagan exorcism ritual. You can't get much more postmodern.

By: ageispolis

ageispolis — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:58:20 -0800

Previously

By: ageispolis

ageispolis — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:58:54 -0800

Oopsies, I like Chris Clark.

By: Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III

Sir BoBoMonkey Pooflinger Esquire III — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:24:31 -0800

The idea for alternate soundtracks for Baraka may have originated from the multiple soundtracks to this similar film shot in Russia in 1929. The first alternate soundtrack was by Alloy Orchestra from 1996, the second was from Cinematic Orchestra in 2000/2, but there have been several others.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:26:51 -0800

What some people don't know about that the Kecak ritual (the one with the waving fingers, featured in phrontist's link), is that it is a bunch of Muslims performing a telling of Hindu mythology as choreographed and arranged by a German Christian in the 1930's You got most of that right except for the part about the Balinese being Muslim. That is the only major island in Indonesia to retain a majority Hindu population.

By: idiopath

idiopath — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:37:14 -0800

Burhanistan: and here I was wondering if I could find Jewish, Buddhist, VooDoo and Shinto elements to the ritual.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:43:26 -0800

My honeymoon was in Bali and we took in a Kecak show for the tourists. Inexplicably, a bunch of old men who weren't involved in any of the dances of the main show came out at the very end and began aggressively poking themselves with blunted daggers. It's a big mess of a show and the fact that it features so prominently on "Baraka" indicates to me that the filmmakers were wannabes. But yeah, they were all Hindus peforming.

By: HeroZero

HeroZero — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:20:37 -0800

Obligatory Yakety Sax I actually just watched Koyaanisqatsi last night and was already all hopped up on fast-forward versions of contemporary society.

By: xthlc

xthlc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:27:39 -0800

I never really understood all the love for Baraka. Perhaps it's because that, by the time I first saw it, its New Orientalist fetish for anything "indigenous" as somehow being more authentic or real than human experiences in the developed world (so typical of Western pop culture in the early 90s) was obvious and laughable. I kept expecting Bono to swan on-screen, scoop up a little naked Amazonian child and hang a Yoruba necklace around its neck while awkwardly bouncing to Real Native Drums.

By: Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:49:37 -0800

(warning: contains M.I.A., nudity) Drat, I read that as "warning: contains M.I.A. NO COMMA nudity." Oh well.

By: yeloson

yeloson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:50:31 -0800

Inexplicably, a bunch of old men who weren't involved in any of the dances of the main show came out at the very end and began aggressively poking themselves with blunted daggers This would be the part where people are demonstrating their magical powers to avoid being cut, much like Shaolin show off stuff like getting hit with logs or breaking a spear (point first) with their collarbone. Luckily for you, it wasn't the more extreme stuff like actual painful piercing of the face, setting oneself on fire, or any of the other, much more scary demonstrations people do.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:57:21 -0800

Luckily for you, it wasn't the more extreme stuff like actual painful piercing of the face, setting oneself on fire Oh, there was some rolling around in a pile of gasoline soaked burning bananas. But now I can't recall if that was the Kecak or the Barong dance since we saw both performed by the same company.

By: BinGregory

BinGregory — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:58:38 -0800

"Baraka" indicates to me that the filmmakers were wannabes. I couldn't get passed the pronunciation of baraka as ba-RA-ka rather than BAA-ra-ka. Pretty much summed up the movie to me: the appropriation of other people's stuff for cheap thrills.