ケス (少年と鷹)

1. Front Titles
2. Billy's Paper Round
3. Dawn: Billy sees Kes in the Tower
4. Stealing the Book
5. Midnight: Billy Climbs and Captures Kes
6. Training Kes
7. Kes' First Flight
8. Jud Walks to the Mine
9. Kes Flies Free
10. Kes Flies Higher
11. Billy Asleep in the Boiler Room
12. Foreboding
13. Looking for Kes
14. Realisation
15. Burying Kes

発売日：2011年4月12日(火)
レーベル：Trunk

レビュー (Amazon)
It's one of those weird anomalies of the music business that, up until now, John Cameron's soundtrack to Kes has never been released. Many thanks, then, to the devoted esoterica hounds at Trunk Records, who've added this brief and pretty album to their catalogue. For those who remember the 1969 film about grim school days in a South Yorkshire mining community, Cameron's music to Kes may still come as a surprise. Rather than the brass-band dirges habitually associated with northern working-class drama, this is willowy, audacious stuff--music of escape that seeks to map the trajectories of the film's true star, a kestrel. "This is the sound of a human soul in flight," writes Pulp's Jarvis Cocker in his sleeve notes, a Sheffield artist with a similar ambition to transcend the mundane. He's right, too. Cameron's key trick is to juxtapose slightly foreboding strings with the mercurial flute playing of Harold McNair, creating a very English kind of pastoral jazz. "This is more than just another product of the nostalgia industry," observes Cocker, and he's right again. The belated release of Kes is far from kitsch revivalism, it's the discovery that audacious music can go unnoticed in the most familiar of places. And the understanding that music that evokes vast, slate-grey skies can, against all odds, be uncommonly beautiful.--John Mulvey