Bash at the Bell: New Scores for New Year's

Enjoy the silence? Nah. Give us music anytime. On New Year’s Eve, the Bell Auditorium hosts Twin Cities acts Fog and Traditional Methods to respectively score the silent films The Naked Island and Tabu, A Story of the South Seas. Kaneto Shindo’s 1960 film The Naked Island follows the daily toils and trials of an island family in Southwest Japan, for which Fog’s minimalist keyboard and guitar should provide a resonant backdrop. Tabu, a Polynesian love story, won an Academy Award in 1931 for its gorgeous cinematography, and hip-hop act Traditional Methods ought to give this steamy vintage classic new edge and nuance.