Just a really good performance of the Twin Peaks theme song on electric guitar
Sarah Lipstate (AKA Noveller) played the iconic "Falling" as a solo guitar piece
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Trying to cover Twin Peaks’ theme song seems like a losing battle. Angelo Badalamenti’s “Falling” is a beautiful track—as haunting, melancholy, and singular as the show itself. Aside from, say, turning the song into an ominous version of “The Loco-motion,” there really isn’t much that can be done to the theme to turn it into something new without it losing its identity in the process.
Or so we thought until hearing Sarah Lipstate (AKA Noveller) playing a solo electric guitar cover that absolutely nails it.
The video sees Lipstate sitting in (an honestly pretty cozy-looking take on) Twin Peaks’ red room while performing an arrangement by Arrigo Martelli on a Jazzmaster. The guitar’s tone and Lipstate’s playing are perfect, capturing the eerie beauty of the song while making it something different enough that it’s exceptional. It’s really great and suitably meditative—until the last few seconds of the video see Lipstate turn into a strobe-lit, white-eyed doppelgänger who shrieks at the camera, of course.
Over on her Facebook page, Lipstate (who we should mention collaborated with Iggy Pop on 2019's Free and plays guitar in his current band when not performing as Noveller) shared a few more details about the cover. Apart from taking a lot of photos of Snoqualmie, Washington landmarks related to the show, Lipstate visited a Black Lodge set “created by Twin Peaks superfan Jason Mattson,” whose recreation of the space is so good that part of his work was used in shooting The Return.
“To sit in Agent Dale Cooper’s chair and perform this song was beyond the beyond,” Lipstate writes, hopefully not hinting that some part of herself will remain in that space forever, curdling with evil.
Check out Lipstate’s cover and more of her music over at Bandcamp.
[via Boing Boing]
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15 Comments
Any y’all ever notice there’s like a lotta weird random stuff on that there intranet?
I’d like to see some of that weird random stuff as opposed to someone impassively doing a competent but unexceptional performance of someone else’s arrangement of a very familiar tune in a reproduction of a very familiar set.
Now that’s a damn fine electric guitar cover!
This is absolutely lovely…thank you for sharing it. I needed that.
That is really great – I have two of her Noveller albums and they’re really worth a listen if you like atmospheric guitar-based music.
I enjoyed Twin Peaks but couldn’t really find the desire to watch The Return. Hearing this cover has changed that I now I feel a strong urge to delve back into it.
I understand close-ups of her hands playing. I understand close-ups of her face in dreamy concentration. Can someone explain the close up of her shoe? Is it just a sop to the stiletto heel fetishists out there?
Quentin approves.
Hey! She wrote the score for my last film. She’s brilliant:
Been a fan of hers since her brief stint in Parts & Labor.
Just an FYI, but this music also has lyrics. The Julee Cruise album, Floating into the Night, is an ethereal delight.
Haunting.
She did some stuff with Jim Thirlwell I think. I should try to find that again.
Excellent!!!Or should I say tnellecexe?
Someone tell her you can oil up your fingertip calluses so they don’t make a squawky scratching noise on the strings each time you move your hand. (If you don’t have a suitable lubricant to hand, you can be gross about it and rub your fingertips against the sides of your nostrils.)