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Mysterious Skin: Music From the Film

* Robin Guthrie Robin Guthrie (born 4 January 1962, in Falkirk, Scotland) is a musician best known as co-founder of the Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has played guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, sampling and sound processing.  and Harold Budd * Commotion

Film scores are designed to underscore onscreen on·screen or on-screen  
adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
 action, not to pull focus. But sometimes film music comes along that makes perfect narrative sense in a movie theater and perfect musical sense--a score with its own individual identity. This is one of them. Cocteau Twins alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14.  Robin Guthrie and his collaborator, ambient vet Harold Budd, have created a melancholy, dreamlike electronic-acoustic landscape for the traumatized children of Gregg Araki's haunting new film, Mysterious Skin. It drifts and cascades gently around its unspoken subject matter, creating a soothing balm balm, name for any balsam resin and for several plants, e.g., the bee balm.
balm

Any of several fragrant herbs of the mint family, particularly Melissa officinalis (balm gentle, or lemon balm), cultivated in temperate climates for its fragrant
 for the story's troubled souls.
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Title Annotation:Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film
Author:White, Dave
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Jun 21, 2005
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