The following is an excerpt of an email sent from Art to Will on 26 August 2012.
Okay, here's a tentative chronology of some songs with the bands that played them underlined:
The Sweet World of Arthur White:
This is the far-off gaze on the object of love. Some problems, but still highly idealized. Would corresponds to the novice stage of religious life, courtship phase of romantic life.
- Could I Be The One?
- Message of Love
- Head Over Heels
- The Treatment
- The Guarantee
- Give You a Taste
Next seems to come some kind of commitment phase, profession of vows, married or religious. Continues with previous list of songs, but these feature more of a spiritual/existential horizon. This is also a bit of a "Yoko" phase for the Sweet World as Arthur disappears into family life a bit more. "Hands Reach Through the Haze" is written for his first daughter. This tendency toward isolation--while relatively healthy and appropriate in the context of marriage and family--will become disordered later on as those things fall apart.
- Bird's Eye View
- One and Only
- Hands Reach Through the Haze
After some initial success, he is approached by Serbian-American filmmaker Bohdan Damien...(can't remember his last name), and writes a partial score for the never-released movie
Street Heat. I like the thought that Arthur White, after the movie's demise, releasing the music under the album name:
Music That I Wrote for the Movie Street Heat.
- Sweet World Intro
- Sweet World Genesis
- Rocketship
Probably would name these songs something different for the movie, but when the movie didn't happen, that's what I ended up calling them. Maybe "Theme from
Street Heat" or "Arthur Plays It Cool" would suffice.
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