Name: Blue Velvet
Brand: Angelo Badalamenti

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

frost003cd

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Gatefold Digipack.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-12-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

809236100344

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

 Angelo Badalamenti

Genre GB

Soundtracks

Label GB

Fire Soundtracks

Soundtracks | Vinyl LPs, CDs, Merch | Rough Trade

Soundtrack for Blue Velvet, David Lynch’s 1986 film that nods somnambulantly to the shadowy netherworld of film noir. Oedipal fantasies, finding a severed ear on your way home, voyeurism, crime and retribution, violence; they’re all there in abundance in the movie, a rotten sleazy commercialism set off against a set of strange situations that the edge of the seat is never far away from. And what soundtrack would suit such an experience? Of course a mix of orchestral pieces from composer and conductor Angelo Badalamenti inspired by Shoshtakovich’s 15th Symphony (which rumour has it Lynch played onset to create the ‘mood’) mixed up with trashy Hammond-led boogie and overblown baroque pop from Roy Orbison and Ketty Lester, suitable for any dive’s jukebox. That awkward mix plays itself out in Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy’s rendition of the song Blue Velvet that melds beautifully and indeed hauntingly into Blue Star, a broken piece of vintage pop. Similarly, the track Going Down To Lincoln with its narrative audio shtick takes all of the previously-mused elements to create a perfectly disjointed travelogue.

Blue Velvet

Music GB