Musica Surfica Dvd Review » Chris Dyer's Review

A really interesting concept of Derek Hynd's, combining experimentation with surfboards without any fins and a wide range of surfers including Tom Carroll with a classical violin maestro Richard Tognetti who provides the backdrop to the unique action.

This is a beautifully put together movie, excellent camera work and thought provoking dialogue that questions the approach that style has to both music and surfing. It's amazing to see yet again that surfing is so diverse and that there are still so many things to learn from by sliding on waves with different craft and the power steering turned off.

I loved seeing Tom Carroll going back to basics in his surfing with a board that required him to relearn how to steer and get maximum trim. It was humbling and gave me the notion that there is still plenty for all to learn in the art of surfing that we should all take off the stabilisers we have all gotten used to since Simon Anderson invented the thruster fin set-up.

The other side to this movie is really about the music. The collision of classical music from Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra is quite awe inspiring and definitely completes this soul quenching and rootsy feeling the movie has.

At times this sometimes means this movie is more about the music and less about the surfing and it did make me urge the dialogue on to the next surfing section as this is what I was really wanting to watch, but this is a minor point and would be in your top ten surf movies if you are mad on innovation, classical music and retro surfing.