JONES, BRIAN - DVD
A DEGREE OF MURDER

LABEL:
IMP-501V
SOURCE:
Japanese copy of Official English Film
FORMAT:
1 DVD-R with 1CDR
RUNNING TIME:
123minutes/33:06 minutes
SOUND/SOURCE:
Mono Soundtrack
PACKAGING:
Standard Double DVD Case
 

A Degree Of Murder DVD front

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SOUND 8 / PACKAGING 9 / PERFORMANCE 8

 
TRACK LIST:

DVD: Original Complete Version transferred from Original Film Print

CDR: Soundtrack Audio Excerpts from the Movie free with first 250 copies.

Bonus features: Colour card with Film Posters and article reproduction of Film review.

 
REVIEW:

Idol Mind Production ventures into DVD like other bootleg labels have recently done. They have found a good colour copy of ‘A Degree Of Murder’, the famous film starring Anita Pallenberg with Japanese sub-titles. The soundtrack was assembled by the late Brian Jones and this version on DVD, IMP adds to the first 250 copies a bonus CDR that features music excerpts. Work on the film score started September 5th 1966 at London IBC Studios by Brian Jones who assembled a small combo to help him cut tracks, Nicky Hopkins (piano) and Jimmy Page (guitar) together with Peter Gosling (keyboards and background vocals) and Mike Leander (orchestra conductor) are for sure featured while it is dubious if other players took part in the sessions as Brian Jones said once that ‘some of the boys helped’ though Bill Wyman said he wasn’t there; we believe that Charlie Watts could have helped. Producer and engineer Glyn Johns was on board, even if his personal relationship with Jones wasn’t very good. Obviously Jones is said to have played many instruments (sitar, organ, dulcimer, recorder, clarinet, harpsichord, harmonica,banjo, autoharp) while there is also a rumour that Mick Jagger helped in the production.


Recording went on whenever possible through February 1967 (on the 11th B. Jones was at London’s Olympic Studios) while the film itself was premiered in Germany on April 19th 1967 in Munich with the German title, "Mord und Totschlag", directed by Volker Schlondorf. The story of the film is the story of a girl (A.Pallenberg) who accidentally kills her boyfriend with his gun and then hires two men to hide the corpse. On April 24th at the Cannes Film Festival Anita Pallenberg, and both Brian Jones and Keith Richards were present although after a brief discussion with Anita, Jones abandoned the Festival earlier. At that time Anita had already switched from Jones to Richards as a boyfriend and that probably contributed to Jones' personal drama and downfall.


This IMP release is a good one, images are quite clear since this is a copy from a Japan print discovered just this year, while the Soundtrack on the accompanying CDR has music that resembles at times some Stones 60's songs like “Sitting On A Fence”or “Ruby Tuesday” while the overall music feel brings to mind the albums from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra, except for some blues instrumental. That was the problem with Brian Jones at that stage of his career,as he wasn’t able to make original music, while very good in dressing songs with his multi instrumental playing ability. No Soundtrack album was ever released by Universal and this makes this film somehow legendary as it shows the only music self made by Brian Jones to have been recorded, apart from the Moroccan ethnic stuff that came out on the Joujouka LP.


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