Scott Walker - The Childhood of a Leader (OST) (LIMITED CLEAR VINYL)

Scott Walker - The Childhood of a Leader (OST) (LIMITED CLEAR VINYL)A key and compelling component to Brady Corbets directorial debut is Scott Walkers first score since his remarkable Pola X soundtrack back in 1999. Partly inspired by Jean Paul Sartres short story of the same name, The Childhood of a Leader is a tense psychological drama tracing the formative years of a young boy and set against the backdrop of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that led to the establishment of the Treaty of Versailles. Walker continues

existing outside the mainstream and extending well beyond the fringe of any sanctioned independent scene

sometimes in the same tune

Despite his family’s disapproval (Sidi’s older brother would often break his homemade guitars in protest)

comprised of multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney

Produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records' House of Soul studios

Rother himself had a copy he had had stashed away in his studio since 1976 as well

'Con todo el mundo' (With all the world)

And it’s an album where moody

Today the record is still as direct and powerful as it was first heard

” recalls Roedelius

Douglas McCombs

they bypass some of the more obvious material and embrace many of the songs closest to their hearts