And one hoped against hope that what one saw was not right.” He says, in answer to a question from his interviewer about why de Freitas stayed in England, as opposed to leaving due to the oppression he felt: “This was the heartland of the whole thing. The song starts nine and a half minutes into the first episode, just after a clip from an interview with Michael de Freitas (later known as Michael X). I’d never heard the song before, or heard of the artist. I found the playlist that evening and have been listening to it, pretty much on repeat, ever since.īut to focus in on one of the songs, and how Curtis uses it: ‘Song For Zula’ by Phosphorescent.
Talking of the day the series was released: I watched the first episode that evening, and it was the music that drove a corkscrew inside me and hooked me right in. And I don’t think they’d watched it early. The whole series of six episodes comes to eight hours (the last episode is two hours long). I’m particularly in awe of this person because they made an initial version of this playlist on the day that the series came out.
SONG FOR ZULA FULL
The soundtrack itself is full of unknown (to me) songs and artists, which is giving me the opportunity to go down an incredible number of rabbit holes, and to work out why Curtis chooses to put video and music together at specific moments.īefore I go any further, someone has, incredibly, already created a playlist of all of the music that Curtis uses in the series, which you can listen to here: I highly recommend it. The songs are played over the clips Curtis layers together to tell his stories of 20th century history, from the developments in psychology to the stories of individuals like Assata Shakur (former member of the Black Liberation Army) and Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong’s wife). Can’t Get You Out of My Head, the recently released series of documentary films by Adam Curtis, has a brilliant soundtrack.
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