Wooden Elephant features in star-studded new film ‘Swan Song’
Star-studded new film Swan Song featuring two tracks from Wooden Elephant’s debut album LANDSCAPES, KNIVES & GLUE - Radiohead’s Kid A Recycled. The science-fiction drama is written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Benjamin Cleary (Stutterer), the film stars Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Glenn Close (101 Dalmations), and Adam Beach (Suicide Squad).
Set in the near future, Cameron Turner (Mahershala Ali) is a loving husband and father who is expecting his second child with his wife Poppy (Naomie Harris). When Cameron is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he is presented with an alternative solution by his doctor (Glenn Close) to shield his family from grief, check out the trailer below. The film features the prominent use of Wooden Elephant’s tracks - Idioteque and Everything In Its Right Place. Listen to the tracks from the album below.
Wooden Elephant is a contemporary classical string quintet that reimagines classic electronic-based albums and presents them in their entirety as acoustic, long-form contemporary classical concert works. Working alongside experimental genre-bending PODIUM Festival Esslingen (Germany), the boundary-pushing ensemble has completed a 3-album series, comprising Björk's Homogenic (2017), Radiohead's Kid A (2018), and Beyoncé's Lemonade (2019). They are currently working on their version of Aphex Twin’s Drukqs alongside prepared piano-specialist Mathias Halvorsen.
