Music for William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton

Description

J Spaceman and John Coxon of Spiritualized announce 'Music for William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton', an instrumental score for Eggleston's 1970s art film, released on October 18, 2024 via Fat Possum. In 2015, Spaceman, Coxon, and their friends performed new original music live during a special film screening at the Barbican Gallery in London. The recording sat on a shelf for 10 years and will finally be unveiled through this release. 'Stranded in Canton' is a black-and-white cinematic portrait of Memphis in 1974, filmed in bars and on street corners, showing Eggleston's friends partying, playing music, and shooting guns into the night sky. It is raw, gritty, Quaalude-y, and spicy. Torn and intimate, the film is a portable window into a different world; "Hogarth on Beale Street," as writer Richard Williams describes it in the album's liner notes.