Scene from This Much I Know Is True, a new documentary about Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Photo: Screenshot. All rights reserved.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been making music with the Bad Seeds for decades. However, their first album together as a duo was only released in 2021: CARNAGE is “actually a kind of Bad Seeds record without the others: no bass, no drums. Cave sings and plays the piano, Ellis organizes the rest: violin, loops, guitars, electronics – including beats”, as ME author André Boße stated in his review and judged that one hears “subtly electronic trauma processing, in the end they win love and life.”
Now, in a new documentary called This Much I Know To Be True, we can catch Cave and Ellis working on CARNAGE as well as GHOSTEEN, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 2019 album. The film by director Andrew Dominik is to celebrate its premiere at the Berlinale 2022 and be released in cinemas or as a stream “in the course of the year”. Now there is already a first trailer:
At the beginning Cave says: “I would have defined myself as a musician or a writer and I’m trying to wean myself off those definitions of myself that are about my occupation, and see myself as a person.” He wants to redefine himself as a “husband and father and friend and citizen who makes music”.
Most recently, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released B-SIDES AND RARITIES PART II and previously featured the song “Earthlings”.
