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Fugitive Traces

Fugitive Traces

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Fugitive Traces is a CD album and accompanying PDF booklet that collages the director’s commentary from over a dozen Werner Herzog films with electronic, chamber, and rock music to both pay homage to one of the world’s most visionary filmmakers and critique an artistic practice rooted in contradiction and frequent disaster.You know the stories. Werner Herzog exploited native workers to clear a swath of rainforest and pull a steamship up a mountain in Peru. Werner Herzog climbed an active volcano on an evacuated island, and then claimed embarrassment that the volcano had not erupted. Werner Herzog brought about the deaths of 10,000 tame rats he’d smuggled into the Netherlands for the filming of Nosferatu.The album’s accompanying “lyrics” comprise an essay that explores the consequences of being seduced by Herzog’s unique brand of recklessness, documenting a disaster on the set of young filmmaker Joe Sacksteder’s Silo.Tracks from Fugitive Traces previously appeared on Sleepingfish, The Collagist, Textsound, Quarterly West, and Queen Vic Knives. The Young Vish is joined on this album by Chris Westhoff (guitar), Mark Dickson / Nests (guitar, mandolin), Hannah Robbins (cello), and Brian DiBlassio (piano).Preview a video version of Trace 17, “Vapid Babble” (an audio-visual collage in collaboration with Veronika Spalajkovic):TRACE LIST >>1. A Sense of Irony / 2. By Dint / 3. The Echo and the Weasel / 4. Fantasy Enough / 5. Christian Bale’s Courage / 6. Norman Take a Knife / 7. Forbidding World / 8. The Last Poetry of Capitalism / 9. A Very Remote Place / 10. The Ecstatic Truth / 11. Scratch Where it Itches / 12. Slalom / 13. Freedom / 14. The Power of Suggestion / 15. Something Professional / 16. Herzog in Like / 17. Vapid BabbleABOUT THE AUTHORThe Young Vish is Joe Sacksteder is a Midwesterner, originally. So he was totally unprepared for the earthquake that struck the Osa Peninsula as he sat outside a hostel reading Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless. Even less prepared to turn back to his reading and encounter the sentence that had been interrupted: “Lord Almighty, send us an earthquake.”Joe Sacksteder is a PhD student at the University of Utah, where he is managing editor of Quarterly West. He invites you to check out more of his work on Passages North, Hobart, The Rumpus, Dreginald, Florida Review, and Booth.

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