Over the last 4 years, the Trump administration’s actions have frequently played out like an operatic catastrophe with the president as its divo So it only seems suitable that author, filmmaker, and star Henry Bloomfield has actually recorded an idea album for a pop opera that utilizes lines from the Mueller report.
And the opera’s libretto was compose entirely utilizing lines from the report, which investigate Russian disturbance in the 2016 governmental election, whether the Trump project conspire that nation’s government and allegations of obstruction of justice by the president.
That bit of gangster poetry comes from an email sent out to Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen by another lawyer with ties to Trump legal team member (and former New York City mayor) Rudy Giuliani, after Cohen’s home and workplace were raid by the FBI in April 2018, following a recommendation from Mueller.
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” Part of my challenge to myself was that this job won’t suggest anything unless I was truly dogmatic about it,” says Bloomfield.
Prior to submitting the songs to the major streaming services, Bloomfield, who composed, produced, performed, and engineered Continuous Matter, produced a website on which he posted the songs and a downloadable variation of the libretto with footnotes that show where every lyric originated from in the report.
On the album’s very first track, “Truthful Commitment,” that request is make of James.
Played in complete, “each track of the 29- minute Ongoing Matter flows into the other,” states Bloomfield.
In numerous methods, Continuous Matter would be an appealing project for a theater and movie director like Luhrmann. Bloomfield first linked with the director after his 2018 short movie They Say It’s Terrific— which reimagined timeless Broadway program tunes in a modern setting– caused a meeting with singer-songwriter and former Legendary Records president Amanda Ghost, who introduced Bloomfield to Luhrmann. At the time, the latter was working on the Broadway adaptation of Moulin Rouge, a jukebox musical that uses recontextualized tunes by OutKast, Katy Perry, Elton John, and Britney Spears.
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Bloomfield says he wound up working for months with Ghost and Scissor Sisters’ Scott Hoffman on a “mega-mix single that might be launch for promotional functions,” however the track might not be release due to the expense of the song rights clearances that would have been require. “It was a little unfortunate because of the time, however, it was an excellent experience,” he says.
“It appeared so damning and revealing,” states Bloomfield.