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...DRUGSTORES In a number of cities, CVS is trying out kiosks that let customers scan their items and then pay with cash or a credit or debit card. One downside: the kiosks can't be used to ring up prescription drugs. Osco and Sav-On are running small-scale tests...
Matt FitzGerald, Tom Schutzinger and Pete Kelly of Decoder Ring are trying to decipher the lyrics sung by guest artist Lenka on the title track to their score for Somersault. It's a floaty ballad in which the film's ethereal Heidi imagines seeing a vision of her lover in snow clouds above the Australian Alps. As they do for the rest of the movie, Decoder Ring provide a soundscape of dark valleys and sunny alpine flourishes, from the deep chime of the glockenspiel to high-pealing piano and xylophone. But how exactly do Lenka's lyrics...
...Decoder Ring should stick to their day jobs - as one of the country's most enigmatic and, since they often play in the dark, disembodied instrumental acts. The moods they scope on guitar (Kelly), keyboards (FitzGerald) and percussion (Schutzinger) defy description. But over the course of three years, one album and legions of live shows, the Sydney band has created countless sounds tracks in search of a movie. Then last year, while watching the rushes of Somersault in Jindabyne, director Shortland was handed their CD by music supervisor Norman Parkhill, and the sound chimed with her vision. "Do you know...
...Decoder Ring's score has the crystalline quality of ice forming - Kelly calls it "glock rock." To get in the mood, the band spent two weeks in a makeshift studio near Kiama, on the N.S.W. South Coast. "We took a Method approach," explains FitzGerald. The acting analogy is apt, since the music provides much of Heidi's inner voice. You can hear it in Heidi's Theme, where a delicate xylophone arpeggio rises above the earthier glockenspiel, perhaps symbolizing Worthington's character Joe. But it's not all so harmonious. For Rough Sex, Decoder Ring provide a jarring guitar riff...
...last year's national tour with Gerling, Decoder Ring played with 16-mm film projectors on stage, beaming out images of oceans and industrial landscapes. "If a picture can tell a thousand words," says FitzGerald, "we have quite lyrically dense songs." Just don't try singing them. Like the mystery rings found in '70s cereal boxes, "We send out messages, but it's for you to decode what they are," FitzGerald says. "It's a postmodern sort of thing - code, decode, recode." The sound is music to Heidi's ears...