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Richard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness - is one of the best-kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic canon an instrumental masterpiece disguised as a movie soundtrack. Recorded over two days as Thompson played live in the studio to Herzog's footage - mostly alone, at times in chamber settings with cello, piano and percussion - these tenderly detailed melodies and quietly visceral improvisations are cinema in their own right, rendered with pictorial instinct and the dazzling technique forged in Thompson's lifelong passage through traditional folk, psychedelia, North African modes and intensely personal songwriting. Here is Thompson at his natural best - finger-picking dance; snake-curl twang and singing-wire harmonics - in a solo clarity that runs from jig-like joy to deep-note meditation, the InchMain TitleInch blues march with it's echoes of Fairport Convention's InchSlothInch to the long night of InchTreadwell No More,Inch a harrowing darkness in slicing treble and tremolo shiver. Produced by guitarist Henry Kaiser, Grizzly Man is a record of powerful solitude - as bold and majestic as the land in Herzog's film; as intimate as prayer - and essential Richard Thompson. Album Tracks 1. Tim & the Bears 2. Grizzly Man 3. Foxes 4. Ghosts in the Maze 5. Glencoe 6. Parents 7. Bear Swim 8. Twilight Cowboy 9. The Kibosh 10. Treadwell No More 11. Teddy Bear 12. Small Racket 13. Streamwalk 14. That's My Story 15. Bear Fight 16. Big Racket 17. Corona for Mr. Chocolate 18. Grizzly Man (Revisited)
