This is interesting. New York indie-trio Blonde Redhead — who have really artistically leapt forward in the last few years beyond the basic indie-rock sound — have written the original score to the Dungeons & Dragons documentary, “The Dungeon Masters.”
The trailer below reveals Blonde Redhead’s participation. Interesting enough, this is probably slightly old news, but probably new to most. Directed by Keven McAlester (the guy behind the Roky Erickson/Thirteen Floor Elevators documentary, “You’re Going To Miss Me“), “The Dungeon Master” played the SXSW Film Festival last year and was completed around 2008 according to IMDB.
Update: The film will be released on February 12 exclusively on Amazon VOD. A few New York theatrical dates are being planned, but the film will mostly be a digitally-driven release.
We guess the film is finally getting a release and according to the trailer the film hits sometime in February. For those unfamiliar, the New York-based trio began sounding like an inspired Sonic Youth knock-off, but have grown in recent years to have a fuller, more expansive sound taking cues from folks ranging from Serge Gainsbourg to My Bloody Valentine. Certainly in the recording studio their expressive sound has flourished with aural sophistication and interesting instrumentation. Arguably they’ve been growing for a long time, but it’s really been obvious on their last two records, Misery Is a Butterfly and 23. However, it doesn’t really appear like you can hear their work in this trailer (that’s definitely not them at the end).
Thanks to Russ at /Film for the head’s up. I think he knows how some of us (me) totally adore Blonde Readhead. We’ll have to keep an eye on it for that reason alone. But the idea of adult dorks playing D&D is still pretty fascinating.
