She shows us the furniture and the dark passages and the doors. And in a way, the people are part of each other - the wolf and the bull are bipeds, which makes it easier to see them as aspects of the baby, whose wet eyes relate to the apple in rain, and the boy in the tree, staring solemnly at the crows and biting the apple flesh. The running wolf suddenly finds himself dodging the glare of headlights among sparse tree trunks and stands dazed in their lights. Ghostly transparent ranks of soldiers march into the sky. She reproduces the poem by the Turkish poet, Nazim Hikmet, which prompted Norstein to plan the film. I think the film works so deeply because it combines perfectly the way we define childhood memories every time we call them up, and the sense we have of the archetypes of myth - apple, forest, snow, wind, light, fire, water, dark - as part of those memories. The men vanish one by one, a train roars, scraps of paper float across our vision: "Your son", "Your husband", "his wounds", "Courage", "Died". The wolf abandons it, retrieves it (it is now waving extruded feet), and carries it to a cradle under a bush where he rocks it until the wails turn to contented gurgles. There is a poet who can't write, and his skimpy cat, dreaming a monstrous fish in the sky. As she says, this poem is a paean to life. Van Morrison sued the band for copyright infringement, as the lyrics in the second verse were derived from his song "Sense Of Wonder", Morrison received an out of court settlement and a co-writers credit, along with John Martyn who also received a credit, as the chorus was based on his song, also called "Sweet Little Mystery". Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop. Clare Kitson has written an exemplary book about her own fascination with it, and her own need to understand it. And a life is a mystery. It was released on 13 July 1987 and reached #5 in the UK charts. The film is based on a Russian lullaby about a wolf who will come and take a child who gets too near the edge. In LA in March Davy and I spontaneously figured out an acoustic duet version of John Martyn’s classic song “Sweet Little Mystery”- the seeds for which were sewn back at a BDS gig last summer in New York … it’s our tribute to a troubled but very talented soul … which Dave Armstrong and our good friend Jordan Harriman kindly captured – warts ‘n’all- on film! Groups of characters appear and reappear. Year: 1987. Marti Pellow recorded his own version of the song for inclusion on his 2002 album Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile. Number 5 in the UK, #3 in New Zealand. Sweet Little Mystery is a joint project between Sarah Jane Morris and long-term collaborator, guitarist Tony Remy. Tale of Tales is a mysterious animated film, tough and delicate, that has won prizes at international festivals since it first appeared in 1980, culminating in prizes in both Los Angeles and Zagreb (in 2002) as the best animated film of all time. The tale she tells sheds light on the origins and making of the images, on their relation to Norstein's life and to Russian culture, to other works of art (poems and paintings) and to the troubled culture of censorship. in Criticism , Storytelling , Writing . Just that sweet little mystery that breaks my heart Just that sweet little mystery makes me cry O that sweet little mystery that's in your heart It's just that sweet little mystery that makes me try. It is immediately apprehensible, and needs to be seen again and again, because it remains puzzling, both as to its form and as to its meaning. All of this is in muted colours, and gently sketched, drawn figures, full of floating slate greys and snowflakes and barely gold leaves and shining white blossom. Important: The song above is NOT stored on the Chordie server. Johnny Boy Would Love This (August 2011) Singles Her name is a byword for glam and vamp, but dark rumours still surround the life of Alison Goldfrapp . Notes: 2nd single from Popped In Souled Out was released in the UK on 13 July 1987 on 7"/12"/12" Wet Pack/Picture Disc Tracklist . Sweet little mystery. Wolf and birds, I imagine, are the old harmony of men and beasts in the forest. The tango goes on. It is a film that immediately changes the memory - mine at least - of all other films. Call 01702 552 912. The little wolf advancing down a dark corridor towards an open door full of a spreading white brightness. ale of Tales is a mysterious animated film, tough and delicate, that has won prizes at international festivals since it first appeared in 1980, culminating in prizes in both Los Angeles and Zagreb (in 2002) as the best animated film of all time. Sweet Little Mystery: The Essential (September 2013) The Island Years (September 2013) (18 disc box set) The Best of the Island Years (November 2014) May You Never: The Essential John Martyn (November 2016) (3 Disc Compilation) Head and Heart: The Acoustic John Martyn (June 2017) Tribute albums. Sweet Little Mystery by Wet Wet Wet chart history on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and YouTube. "Sweet Little Mystery" is the second single from Wet Wet Wet's debut album, Popped In Souled Out. One of the film's great beauties is its rhythm. Watch the video for Sweet Little Mystery from John Martyn's May You Never - The Very Best Of John Martyn for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Red velvet. Just that sweet little mystery that breaks my heart Just that sweet little mystery makes me cry O that sweet little mystery that's in your heart Overview. The lyrics in the second verse were changed to Didn't I come resisting this sight of wonder / Didn't I come insisting the higher decision for the single release. 3:41; Wet Wet Wet - Sweet Little Mystery live in … You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. A mother trying to peel potatoes and rock a pram, which the girl helps to do, with a bad grace. Watch the video for Sweet Little Mystery from Wet Wet Wet's Part One for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Chordie works as a search engine and provides on-the-fly formatting. Tale of Tales has been called the greatest animated film ever. Sweet Little Mystery – The Songs Of John Martyn. The story has no narrative coherence. "Sweet Little Mystery", French and Swiss singles charts, Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Little_Mystery&oldid=983225546, Songs written by Neil Mitchell (musician), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 00:30. "Sweet Little Mystery" is the second single from Wet Wet Wet's debut album, Popped In Souled Out. She tells how the original proposal was a story about the poet who couldn't write, and how the censors were baffled by a film that bore little relation to the proposal, and grew suspicious. Do you remember how long the days were when you were a child?". Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey, by Clare Kitson, will be launched at the festival and available to buy in June, price £17.50. Wet Wet Wet - Sweet Little Mystery - Official Music Video. The film as we have it opens with three images, an apple in the rain, a large breast with a baby suckling, and a little wolf looking on, with huge eyes in a face at once wondering and apprehensive. 119 talking about this. This 1980s pop song-related article is a stub. Mystery, and posing questions to an audience, can be a good way to hook people into a story. The original song is hosted at www.guitaretab.com. There are visions of bright light. It is a closed, perfected world. Sweet Little Mystery ‘The Mystery’, ‘The Mizzy’ or Wavertree Playground as it’s more formally known is a 104 acre park gifted to Liverpool Corporation in 1895 by a ‘mystery’ donor – hence its nickname. She tells us that the wolf's haunting eyes came from a photo of a half-drowned kitten, and reproduces the photo. Together they pay homage to the sublime genius of Scottish singer/songwriter John Martyn - a restless, often self-destructive artist whose unique voice and music is both breathtakingly bold and achingly tender in its beauty. She describes Norstein's difficult perfectionism - which is partly of the kind that grew up in Soviet artists under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, who didn't dare expect to see their works reach a public. Sweet Little Mystery John Martyn One World John Martyn More by John Martyn. 3:41; Wet Wet Wet Live At Glasgow Green - Sweet Little Mystery - HD Dolby Digital 5.1. She illuminates, and deepens the mystery, leaving the power of the images intact and strengthened, which is what good criticism should do. [Em7-9] It's your sweet little mystery... Am7 = 002010. It is boarded up, at one point, furniture is piled outside, and burned. Martyn's next studio venture, One World (1977), combined chilled-out moodscapes ("Small Hours") with slick, adult-oriented pop and rock ("Dancing"), the latter tendency even more prominent on Grace & Danger (1980) and exemplified by the delicate "Sweet Little Mystery." It was released on 13 July 1987 and reached #5 in the UK charts. The things in the film, like the things in the poem, make up a life. It was made in Soviet Russia by Yuri Norstein, who was not allowed to travel to receive any of his awards, and who was almost prevented from making, and then from showing, the film at all. She has seen it "at least 50" times, and has learned Russian in order to talk to its makers. The wolf seems to be drawn in very soft pencil, the dark circles of his anxious eyes gone over and over. Wet Wet Wet – Sweet Little Mystery Genre: Rock. It is immediately apprehensible, and needs to be seen again and again, because it remains puzzling, both as to its form and as to its meaning. It describes one aspect of the film and is calculated to appeal to censors wanting a positive picture of Soviet Russia. Red wine. It was made in Soviet Russia by Yuri Norstein, who was not allowed to travel to receive any of his awards, and who was almost prevented from making, and then from showing, the film at all. At one point he seizes the shining poem, rolls it, and runs away into the forest, where it becomes a swaddled baby, wrong way up, which wails furiously. In the video, recorded in Gambia, the lyrics in the second verse are Didn't I come to give you a sense of wonder / Didn't I come to lift this fiery vision. Kitson shows us how the house is very real - it is the communal apartment where Norstein grew up in the postwar world. Lyrics to 'Sweet Little Mystery' by John Martyn. But what does it mean? There is a feast at a long table whose cloth is lifted and shaken by the wind. We stand over the water - the sun, the cat, the plane tree and I. As all these movements are one movement, so all the round solids are one thing - the apple, the breast, and the potatoes that the wolf roasts in a touching sequence in the winter forest. That so much darkness gets into the sunlight and warmth, that soldiers vanish, and forests give way to ranging motor cars, that the festive tablecloth blows up into a ghostly form, doesn't change the simplicity of statement. ... and a little wolf looking on, with huge eyes in a face at once wondering and apprehensive. There is a swaying, rocking movement - cradle, pram, skipping rope, and most unexpectedly the wolf swinging himself on the treadle of an abandoned sewing machine, outside the abandoned house. She tells us how landscapes were filmed on a multiple frame, and waterdrops were made to run where they should. Wet Wet Wet - Sweet Little Mystery/Twist and Shout - The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 1988. When they drag him away from the tree, both he and the man acquire ludicrous Napoleonic military hats. There is a house, dark and closed and in bad repair, which westerners would see as a witchy house. The colour of fire, passion, anger, danger. ½ Tale of Tales will be screened at Animated Encounters, Watershed, Bristol, April 21 to 24. The original proposal for the film, Kitson tells us, began: "This is to be a film about memory. Sweet little mystery. Registered and insured confectionery, gift and homeware business with 5* food safety rating. Em7 = 020030. The simplicity of statement persists into the film as we have it. Box office: 0117 927 5100. There is a boat rocking on the sea, and the tango rocks. Track Listing Title/Composer Performer Time Stream; 1 : May You Never. The Coronet Theatre Reviewed – 29th October 2019 ★★★★★ “If a voice was perceived in colour, Sarah’s would be red. 5:38; Sweet little mystery live newcastle 2007. The apple is heavy, and a perfect pale green-gold, at once a golden apple of a lost paradise, a real apple full of juice, and a closed and perfect shape. She reproduces scenes and storyboards that were never made - the funeral of a bird, a seashore walker based on Einstein. It is a film that immediately changes the memory - mine at least - of all other films. There is a little thin girl skipping in a rope held by a melancholy Picassoesque bull. By AS Byatt, One of the images from Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales. Women and men circle under a weak street lamp. Listen to Sweet Little Mystery by John Martyn, 46,602 Shazams. And I would suggest that the sudden flaring white light - at the end of the corridor, emanating from the poem-paper - is perhaps a recollection of the first light we see, opening our eyes for the first time, our first visual memory. In the same way, the floating papers, leaves and petals, are all metamorphic parts of each other. Second single from Wet Wet Wet's debut album, Popped In Souled Out. Sweet Little Mystery: The Essential gathers 17 songs from Martyn's long tenure with Island Records, and serves as a powerful reminder of the unique gifts of this longtime cult favorite. Week-by-week music charts, peak chart positions and airplay stats. Em7-9 = 022030. There is one comparatively colourful, almost allegorical sequence about a drunk man and a nagging plump woman sharing a park bench while a little boy shares the golden apple with some crows in a snowy tree, and simultaneously eats it on the ground. Just that sweet little mystery that breaks my heart Just that sweet little mystery makes me cry O that sweet little mystery that's in your heart It's just that sweet little mystery that makes me try. A poem in front of the poet filling with the same light. Tale of Tales has been called the greatest animated film ever. 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