Given that director Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place takes its name from an oft-covered Talking Heads hit while starring Sean Penn as, ostensibly, Robert Smith, we were hoping the film would boast an intriguing soundtrack. Enter ex-Talking Head David Byrne himself and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham. As The Playlist points out, Byrne revealed to Time Out London recently that he has teamed up with Oldham to write songs for the film about an aging, retired rock star seeking to track down an ex-Nazi war criminal who persecuted his father at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
A complicated plot indeed, but Byrne — whose music with Brian Eno provided one of the few endearing elements of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel — and Oldham are up to the task, I’d say.
In other Oldham news, it was announced today that Bonnie “Prince” Billy” and the Cairo Gang will release a new 10-inch record, “Island Brothers / New Wonder”, to benefit Louisville, Kentucky’s Edge Outreach, a charity organization working to thwart Haiti’s cholera outbreak through grassroots water-purification systems.