the song: Hounds of Love
I recorded 'Hounds of Love' in 1993 as a cover of the song by Kate Bush with a new arrangement. I wanted a fanfare-arrangement for this song because I played with the idea to use it as a soundtrack to a short film. For this film I wanted to have a real fanfare-orchestra playing the song, and film this band playing the song whilst parading through the town where I spent my childhood. Complete with majorettes.
With the film I wanted to evoke memories of the exciting and scary feeling I had as a little boy when the fanfare was approaching from afar in my hometown on holidays; together with the fascination of the bare legs of the majorettes and their dancing batons. I wanted to mix this image with images linked to that half-serious game of boyhood, jumping over the shadows of the streetlights at night, because to touch a shadow would mean evil.
A film about undeveloped sexuality approaching and the childlike sense of fascinosum et tremendum awaiting it.
With the film I wanted to evoke memories of the exciting and scary feeling I had as a little boy when the fanfare was approaching from afar in my hometown on holidays; together with the fascination of the bare legs of the majorettes and their dancing batons. I wanted to mix this image with images linked to that half-serious game of boyhood, jumping over the shadows of the streetlights at night, because to touch a shadow would mean evil.
A film about undeveloped sexuality approaching and the childlike sense of fascinosum et tremendum awaiting it.