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Angelo Badalamentihelped audiences getDavid Lynch.
(Badalamenti did not work on the super-low budgetInland Empire, which Lynch composed and performed himself.)
The thing is, Badalamenti never applied for the job ofBlue Velvetcomposer.
(He played the pianist in the club where Rossellinis character, Dorothy Vallens, performs.)
It should be a song that floats on the sea of time.
Badalamenti, born in Brooklyn in 1937, was the son of a Sicilian-American fish market owner.
That changed afterBlue Velvet.
Although it uses real instruments, its backbone is synthesized soundscapes and hepcat jazz-rockabilly-neo-noir particles.
Without Badalamentis music, the scene wouldnt be as tonally complex.
I closed my eyes, put my fingers on the keyboard, and started to play, said Badalamenti.
Such a deep level of understanding between artists is rare.
