The most beautiful
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips are former members of the band Luna, authors of delight to the beat of electromagnetic vibration since 1992 when Dean Wareham formed the band and they achieved to record seven studio albums until filming the documentary Tell me do you miss me in 2005, ending the project. Dean Wareham had also formed the project Galaxy 500 while Britta Phillips had played in other bands and acted in film projects.
Dean & Britta project was born before the end of Luna. They recorded L'Avventura in 2003 where they covered favorite songs. After an EP of remixes called Sonic Souvenirs, under the direction of Sonic Boom, and then their second work arrived under the title Back Numbers (2007) followed by the some film soundtracks like The Squid & the Whale by Noah Baumbach.
Their latest work is 13 Most Beautiful ... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (2010), a project born of the proposal by Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to write songs around the films Screen Tests that Warhol shot as dumb portraits between 1962 and 1966 at the Factory. That project included their live performance during their projection, as part of a multimedia show. Everything has resulted in a double album of songs that are a delight for the listener.
From the suggestive initial Silver Factory Theme one realizes that the Warhol aesthetic fits like a glove into the tunes composed by Dean & Britta. Not a young man Anymore backs us to the early days of The Velvet Underground and I found it not so is a wet dream woven in the sky. Incandescent Innocence is ethereal, it floats on its own without needing to go anywhere. And all just draws Eyes smoke in my, where the visions are multiplying to the beat of guitar rhythms and chocked by emotion vocals lurking all sides and edges of the nightlife. Eventually the sun will rise, but nobody can tell.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Photos courtesy by Dean & Britta