Self Esteem has dropped the sonic new cover of Jimmy Cliff’s ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’, shared as part of the This Town soundtrack. Check it out below.The song was shared by the Sheffield singer as part of the new BBC series which aired over the Easter weekend, and takes place in the ’80s UK, amid the two-tone ska revival.Originally released back in 1995, the song was first shared by Jimmy Cliff as part of his album ‘Many Rivers To Cross’.“Persecution you must fear/ Win or lose you got to get your share/ You’ve got your mind set on a dream/ You can get it though hard it may seem now,” Self Esteem, real name Rebecca Lucy Taylor sings in the verse, putting a modern, dance spin on the original track.Check out both the original and the new Self Esteem cover below.The first two episodes of This Town aired over Easter weekend, with Self Esteem’s reimagining of ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’ being played from the soundtrack, as well as Ray Laurél’s new version of ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.The series “celebrates a thrilling evolution of sound, spirit and UK culture” and is set against the melting-pot scene of the Midlands in the 1980s.
‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus’ Director Neo Sora on Filming His Father’s Final Performance
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Todd Gilchrist editor Directed by Neo Sora, “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” records the final performance of its namesake composer and musician prior to his death from cancer in March 2023. Per Sora, Sakamoto’s son, “Opus” is less a documentary than a concert film, capturing 20 tracks — electronic, orchestral, and everything in between — from his multifaceted career as they’re played on the piano in crisp black and white, in lighting that transitions from night to day and back to night.
As he explains, it was no small task to chronicle what he knew could be his father’s last artistic gift to the world. But when speaking about the film, Sora maintains a studied objectivity that focuses more on the process of making it than the feelings behind it — much less about his father in general.
Even as a fan of Sakamoto’s since the days of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor,” it’s unexpected to feel as a journalist like you’re more passionate about a filmmaker’s subject than he is. Yet Sora’s thoughtful practicality about the challenges of “Opus” belies the disposition of an artist perhaps unsurprisingly similar to Sakamoto, marrying a virtuoso control of technique and technology with intuitive inspiration for an end result that’s as powerful as it is precise.
Lightly edited below are Sora’s thoughts about the film, which opens in New York March 15 with a national rollout to follow. When you started, did you approach this as a filmmaker documenting a subject? Or did you approach it as a son documenting his father? I don’t know if those things can be completely separated, but my intention was to do as good of a job as I could as a filmmaker to record this performance in amber, so to speak.
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