About this episode
Nicholas Marcus interviews Chat Pile's Raygun Busch and Luther Manhole about their experiences with film scoring and the intersection of music and movies.
There are a few perks to running every aspect of this site and podcast, the biggest being picking who I want to interview (and avoiding whomever I don't). Part of that, sometimes, is using film music as an excuse to interview bands that I just broadly like. Enter: Chat Pile. The Oklahoma noise rock band has one score under their belt, the 2022 indie crime flick Tenkiller, which they released as a score album after their debut God's Country, and have provided some songs for other films, most recently a track for the end credits to V/H/S/Halloween. Not to mention, they routinely talk about movies, including during their gigs. All perfect hooks to have them on, and so today I'm talking with vocalist Raygun Busch and guitarist Luther Manhole. As such, we jump around quite a bit: from their experience scoring Tenkiller, how movies brought them together and provide a mutual love, and some recent (and not to recent) scores that they've enjoyed (I'll note that at one point Ray is talking about the Bossa Nova score for Black Orpheus before getting interrupted by his dog...). We wrap up on a bit of a detour, actually talking about the economics of albums and touring, and how much a role…
People in this episode
Host: Nicholas Marcus
Guests: Raygun Busch, Luther Manhole
Topics covered
- film music
- interview
- noise rock
- scoring films
- music economics
Keywords
- Chat Pile
- Tenkiller
- God's Country
- film scoring
- noise rock
- music economics
- interview
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Chat Pile
Books & works: Tenkiller, God's Country, V/H/S/Halloween, Black Orpheus, In The Earth Again
Places: Oklahoma
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