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The Iron Sky: Operation Highjump -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Iron Sky: Operation Highjump. A bandMight not be a very original idea, but let's give it a shot anyway! So, we have a small band in the Antarctica base. A bunch of entertainers, basically, just a fun bunch of guys playing Nazi Jazz (yeah, they did have that back in the days, too... Yet, there were restrictions, as stated here: http://www.shellac.org/wams/wnazi02.html These people were among the selected people, since culture, even a bit lighter entertainment, was required. And they were quite awesome bunch of musicians, great people to join the Reich. The only thing is, they've grown completely dead tired and bored of the Antarctica base - and the whole Nazi ideology that goes with it. I mean back in the days in Berlin it was easy for them, just to play a bit of jazz to the officers and drop a few siegs and heils every now and then, but at home they were able to put on their black jazz musicians and party with jewish girls all the night. But now, there's none of that. Since everything is so rigidly and strictly forbidden and regulated, their life has become extremely boring. So they've started to do some little tricks, just for the fuck of it. You know, nothing special, but a little something. Maybe an encounter with these people could provide to be helpful in the journey ahead. |
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I would suggest something, but it's highly subersive, and potentially might be taken as "diffmataion" (lie in english?).
The french band Magma plays kind of a jazz, really inspired by Coltrane and Elvin Jones, but also by Stravinsky's Wedding. Anyone having heard of Magma will observe that the sings seems to be in "military german", and actually, all that Kobaïa's mythology also goes in that way.
Moreover, there are rumors about Magma's drummer Christian Vander, being close to nazi's way of thinking.
Well, I just answer this because, it's a pretty good example of musician loving black music, and still.....
By the way, I might compose something inbetween 30s jazz and Magma's music (which, even all I've been written above, is one of my big inspiration sources), which will finally lead in a kind of straight-and-strict jazz, with military pulses. Let me know.
I was browsing around and looks like the rules from the reference link are actually fiction from the writer Josef Škvorecký - sounds like he wrote some pretty interesting things too.
Anyways, looks like the band is pretty certain to appear in the game since we've already kind of written them into the main storylines. :)
The Iron Sky teaser music has a 30s/40s feel to it, maybe you could do a swing arrangement of that?
Any composers here in Wreckamovie to imitate the style of swing melodies from the 30's-40's?
Kris: Have to check that out :) Not getting my hopes up, though, since I think the expiration period for US copyright law is something around 95 years. :/
If some of his tunes are out of copyright, you might want to consider some Glen Miller for the sound track as he did some cracking music... :)
Seppo & Kris: I like the idea, especially if we keep it subtle enough. :)
Something like that was in my mind too. Some gossip about him being perhaps Miller. He could suffer from amnesia, not know himself who he is, but that does not affect him playing his music.
Seppo, that's an interesting idea! The timeline fits it exactly.
I wouldn't say it directly though, just hint that there's a captured American in the band and he looks a bit like Miller. Don't actually call him Miller though.
I just had an idea:
One of the members of the band or even the leader could be Glenn Miller, who's plane disappeared in 1944 in bad weather during a tour he made to entertain soldiers. Plane was going from United Kingdom to Paris, France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller
It were nice to see a lookalike of Glenn Miller or himself there playing swing music, "Moonligt Serenade" for example...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQseFAcWvtE&feature=PlayList&p=459FE04E80805716&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12
Hmm, this also gives ideas to fill some levels which have low story content :D (like warehouse level -> jazz / blues club ^^).
Not too much interaction with the band though (we'll see how much can be done :P)
Kris & Seppo: Nice ideas both of you. :)
Matti, if you were looking for a turncoat Nazi maybe it could be one of the band members. As Timo hints at, Jazz musicians of the 1930s might well have found it difficult to be racist when they were enjoying music from people of all races.
Huh, that was a peculiar list of rules there on the linked docoment.
In the game "Operation Highjump" there could be a guy who understands music and who was set to control how the band is allowed to play. And in the antarctic base he has also got tired of following those rules and restrictions along with the band. He point's out to the officers (who are not musically talented) that every musical piece they play is according to the rules. In fact he is training the band to improvise. Every time an german officer comes near the band the music turns into boring disciplined Musik, when he is not near they play freely and improvise and syncopate as much they love to do.
Sounds like a very valid idea, it already gave me a couple of plot ideas concerning the band.
The reference link is great also, thank you! :D
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