Amor de Días—the duo of Alasdair Maclean (Clientele) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas)—just released debut album Street Of The Love Of Days via Merge. (Those of you who speak Spanish know that the band’s moniker translates to “love of days,” hence the album title.) Maclean and Núñez-Fernández worked on the 15-track LP for more than three years, and it features guest spots by the likes of Louis Philippe, Damon & Naomi, Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor) and Danny Manners. Maclean and Núñez-Fernández will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with them.
Núñez-Fernández: I love films about art and artists, and this quasi-documentary-style telling of Munch‘s life might be my favorite. There is something really haunting about the way Peter Watkins meshes layers of reverie-like scenes repeatedly, like unforgettable memories, over an anonymous voiceover narration guiding us through the facts of Munch’s life. You catch glimpses into the vivid, present trauma behind his work, and the result is a picture as profound and enveloping as his paintings. I love the collaborative method behind Watkins’ filmmaking; the script was collectively edited, and he chose to use untrained actors to reenact the lives of Munch and his circle. The film is so rich and so beautiful, it took me three days to watch it last year. This scene is set at The Black Pig, a cafe in Berlin where Munch and contemporaries such as Strindberg met to drink and discuss politics, religion, art and sex. What else.
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