Johanna Billing

I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die —12” Vinyl, 2012

The film was shot in neighborhoods in Ostia, where Pier Paolo Pasolini lived until his death in 1975. Johanna Billing's supervised music replays two folk themes from "Fetus", the infamous 1971 musical collage by the Italian composer Franco Battiato.

Furthermore, Johanna Billings' record presents alternative versions of the Battiato themes and two acoustic film outtakes on the B-side: a lively conversation between the kids while playing Rorschach, and a discussion between Swedish studio musicians and Johanna during the making of the movie soundtrack back in Stockholm. The record is presented by Apparent Extent, Cologne, Germany in collaboration with Laveronica Arte Contemporanea of Modica, Sicily, and the book collective Dent-de-Leone, London, UK.

The record comes with extended interviews, text, and images from Johanna Billing, and by curators Cecilia Canziani and Lorenzo Bruni.
Graphic design by Åbäke, London.

I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die — 12” Vinyl, 2012A1: I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die (Original Film Soundtrack, 2012) - 15:18

B1: Lets Take It From The Beginning (Session Outtake) - 02:38
with Jonna Sandell, Andreas Söderström, Patric Thorman, Johanna Billing and Christian Gabel at Cobra Studio, Stockholm, 2012.

B2: Cariocinesi — Instrumental, 2012 (Originally written by Franco Battiato, 1971) - 04:05

B3: Mechanics — Variation, 2012 (Originally written by Franco Battiato, 1971) - 05:30

B4: Two Birds Kissing And A Cow (Film Audio Outtake) - 05:50with Palma Biadene, Eufrasia De Mattia, Andrea Folchi, Rocco Ciardo and Leonardo Faiella at Scuola Carlo Urbani, Rome, 2011.

Musical soundtrack recordings: Interpretations based on "Cariocinesi" and "Mechanics" originally written and performed by Franco Battiato on his album "Fetus" (1971, Bla Bla Records, Italy). Music Arranged by Johanna Billing along with Andreas Söderström (whistling, guitar, percussion, synthesizer, pump organ), Patric Thorman (upright bass, electric bass, piano, vibraphone, percussion), Jonna Sandell (violin), Karl-Jonas Winqvist (Glockenspiel, Fender Rhodes, cembalo, cymbals) and Christian Gabel (drums), Recorded and Mixed by Christian Gabel at Cobra Studio, Stockholm. Sound mix: Joachim Ekermann at Helter Skelter, Stockholm. Mastering for vinyl: Nicholas Bussmann at Studio Beige, Berlin.

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