My Family’s Role in the World Revolution
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, music, popcult
Last night, boyfriend asks me to burn a film Burn After Reading (so much burning, right_?) on a CD, so he can take it to his boss, who likes Brad Pitt. I take an unmarked CD, pop it in the laptop, but it turns out it has music on it. Pop Levi, Ben Folds Five, Hawk and a Hacksaw, Bright Eyes, Soulsavers, Marie Antoinette soundtrack and Beirut. I remember who gave this to me. But with Ipods, who is listening to the music scattered around on CDs. I put Beirut on, his Lon Gisland EP. Song called “My Family’s Role in the World Revolution”. A funny, little number.
My Family’s Role in the World Revolution is also a famous novel by a Serbo-Croatian writer Bora Ćosić from the late 1960’s, upon which a film was made that was banned as it was done during “black wave” movement, embodying the poetics of this period in Yugoslav film. Coincidence?
Ćosić’s book has been translated into many languages, definitely not becoming a global bestseller, but an interesting item for everyone interested in literature of former Yugoslavia, East Europe, “Unbound Europe”, you name it ….
And Beirut’s Zach Condon loves us, that is a fact.
There was a rumor going on that during his backpacking through Europe, he was in Amsterdam and could not sleep, as a drunken Serbian guy was playing brass music. He went to his apartment to complain, instead he was invited in where he got a drink, as well as Boban Marković’s CD. Months later Gulag Orkestar was made (note Orkestar, instead of Orchestra, Zach is one of us).
Naturally, he moved on. To masters of French chanson. Jacques Brell and co. All on the album The Flying Club Cup.
Still, Zach don’t you want to come here, where the music that inspired you originates?
Tags: balkan brass, beirut, bora ćosić, gulag orkestar, lon gisland ep, my family's role the world's revolution
