Word: cinerama
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...album Take Fountain comes with a flashy cover brandishing “The Wedding Present,” the name of a group dormant since 1997, when songwriter David Gedge began recording more mature and Baroque-styled pop songs under the name Cinerama, collaborating with girlfriend Sally Murrel. The relationship has recently ended, and Gedge has returned to the band he made his name with in the late ’80s. Unfortunately, he hasn’t fully shaken the musical indulgences that set Cinerama’s music apart from the brash and jangly sound of the Wedding...
...Enya-like vocals. In these songs, “Interstate 5 (Extended Version)” in particular, the guitars are drawn out to dramatic effect, churning and emotionally pulling, evoking images of intent searching on a dark highway, in the sort of film-music vein so inspirational to Cinerama...
...bitter, bitter break-up songs, so in light of the album’s biographical circumstances, the name switch comes across potentially as therapy. Their classics have always hit the right mix of spite, frustration, and wounded ego, as opposed to the more confident and musically assured catalog of Cinerama. But honestly, David, it’s a little quick to change the name—at least until you up the distortion a little more and ditch the strings...
...IMAX installation, anyway. We're here for the train. Or, more particularly, it's vertiginous journey. It is all S curves and roller-coaster ups and downs, with a skidding voyage across a literally trackless ice sheet thrown in for good measure. Older crocks will be reminded of the Cinerama adventures of their misspent youths, but this time the process is perfect--no annoying jiggles where the three screens of the old technology never quite matched. There are times when you'll pull back in your seat to avoid some onrushing object. Other times you'll feel your stomach descending...
...charge decimates a native village. The more sensational scenes in the picture were projected in "Magnascope", a process which enlarged the size of the image to Imax proportions. (Cooper and Schoedsack went out the way they came in: their last picture together was the 1952 tech spectacle "This Is Cinerama...