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Greg Samothrakis

These Hopeless Savages

2013

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what: soundtrack album/indie folk

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for fans of: The Beatles, Sun Kil Moon, GBV, Rainer Maria, Kermit the Frog

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Matt Dellapina and Sean Christopher Lewis are two dear friends of mine from college, and they wrote and produced this funny and touching buddy movie called These Hopeless Savages (with director Kaitlyn Busbee). They were kind enough to mine my previously recorded material for soundtrack fodder, and indeed there's so much of me singing throughout the film it feels like I'm a kind of Greek chorus. And not even because I'm Greek. There were a handful of other recordings in the final product, but here are the tracks that weren't already grouped in other albums. I did record new versions of "Whip-Poor-Wills"and "Santorini" for this - "Santorini" replaced my cover of Dave Davies' great "Strangers" at the emotional climax of the film, and "Whip-Poor-Wills" plays in its entirety underneath footage of the two in a traffic jam. One reviewer called the song "wordy" in a negative way, which I took to be positive, as I have always tried to be wordy in a negative way. "Whip-Poor-Wills" is subtitled "Life Inside This Joseph Cornell Box". "Santorini" is about facing down the iconic sunset on the island of Santorini and being faced in return with your own fleeting mortality. It's Vladimir and Estragon clowning through the beauty of the absurd world.

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