WaterTower Music: "THE ART AND SOUL OF DUNE" (COMPANION BOOK MUSIC) Music by Hans Zimmer

WaterTower Music has today released The Art and Soul of Dune (Companion Book Music), the last of three separate album releases of music from and in celebration of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the highly-anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestselling book from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049”). All three albums feature the music of legendary composer Hans Zimmer (Interstellar, Inception, Gladiator, Dark Knight Trilogy). The film began opening in select markets around the world beginning September 15, and opens today, October 22, in the U.S. on October 22 in theaters and on HBO Max.

The Art and Soul of Dune (Companion Book Music) features 9 tracks of music from the companion soundtrack to the book of the same title, which is also available today. The album was curated by Zimmer and offers uniquely crafted versions of the film’s main themes to accompany the reader on their journey through this visually dazzling book, which was written by the film’s executive producer Tanya Lapointe.
 
Dune director Denis Villeneuve and Hans Zimmer, who previously collaborated on Blade Runner 2049, instantly bonded over their shared passion for Herbert’s novel. “We agreed that the music would need to have a spirituality to it… a sanctified quality,” explained Villeneuve. “Something that would elevate the soul and have the effect that only sacred music can. And I believe that is firmly present in Hans’ score.”
 
Zimmer offered, “I absolutely love working with Denis. He has an incredible imagination and offers so much soul within the complexity of making a film of this magnitude, and our aesthetic is very comparable. Dune has always been very close to both of our hearts. The task was to figure out how we were going to interpret something we truly loved and admired, and invite the audience to come and have their own personal experience. That was, for us, the reason to make this film.”
 
The prolific composer took a unique approach in creating the music of Dune. He decided that, since Dune was about a different civilization, he would invent instruments to accompany that concept, instead of utilizing solely standard instrumentation.  “Hans spent months and months creating new instruments, defining, creating, and seeking new sounds, pushing the envelope,” described Villeneuve. “The musicianship is extraordinary, and this is not your normal orchestral score.”  
 
Villeneuve was thrilled that Zimmer continued to explore the music on two additional albums past the soundtrack itself. On Zimmer’s process, he described “It was absolutely beautiful… he continued to write music even when the movie was finished! He was still inspired and went on writing.”

A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
 
Oscar® nominee Denis Villeneuve directed Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Dune. The film stars Oscar® nominee Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Oscar® nominee Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, David Dastmalchian, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, with Oscar® nominee Charlotte Rampling, with Jason Momoa, and Oscar® winner Javier Bardem. Villeneuve directed Dune from a screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Villeneuve and Eric Roth, based on the novel of the same name written by Frank Herbert. The film’s producers were Mary Parent, Villeneuve, Cale Boyter and Joe Caracciolo, Jr. The executive producers were Tanya Lapointe, Joshua Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Jon Spaihts, Thomas Tull, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert, with Kevin J. Anderson as special consultant.  Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Present a Legendary Pictures Production, a Film by Denis Villeneuve, Dune. The film is slated to be released worldwide this fall, in theaters from 15 September internationally and in the U.S. on October 22 in theaters and on HBO Max; it will be available on HBO Max in the Ad-Free plan for 31 days from theatrical release.  The film has been rated PG-13 for sequences of strong violence, some disturbing images and suggestive material.
 
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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Back Lot Music: "LAST NIGHT IN SOHO" about the upcoming releases... Songs, Score and Vinyl.

Back Lot Music has released the first single from Writer/Director/Producer Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho in Anya Taylor-Joy’s haunting cover of “Downtown (Downtempo)”. The song marks Taylor-Joy’s first major single with accompanying music video, which released exclusively on her Instagram channel before going wide on Focus Features’ YouTube channel. An ‘Uptempo’ version of the track is featured as the B-side to a 7inch offering from Mondo/Death Waltz Records.  Taylor-Joy performs the song in the feature film, but producer/composer Steven Price produced the two extended versions especially for the soundtrack. Both versions feature orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Additionally, Back Lot/Mondo will release the various artists compilation soundtrack featuring songs exclusively curated by Wright from his 60’s inspired film this Friday, October 22nd. Alongside the needledrops are three songs performed by Taylor-Joy and a score suite from composer Price. Finally, Back Lot/Mondo will release Price’s full score to the film along with three additional Taylor-Joy recordings (which includes the “Downtown (Downtempo)” single) on Friday, October 29th day-and-date with the US/UK film release.

In acclaimed director Wright’s psychological thriller, Eloise – an aspiring fashion designer – is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

Wright is well known for expertly curated soundtracks and deep musical cuts, and LAST NIGHT IN SOHO – itself named after the Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song – is no exception. The decade long development of the story was done hand in hand with finding songs that set the tone for the film he had in mind. Then, he and co-screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns listened to the music he’d assembled as they wrote the script; Wright even put together a playlist for his cast members to listen to as they read the results. But he also wanted a score to soundtrack the two eras of Last Night in Soho and tie together the stories of these two very different young women. To achieve this, Wright turned once again to his now-regular composer, Academy Award® winner Steven Price, who scored both Baby Driver and The World’s End.

While Price’s influences for the score included contemporary film music by the likes of Ennio Morricone and John Barry, the music also explores musique concréte techniques of the time, looping fragments of dialogue and on-screen sound to add a unique and often subliminally sinister edge to the score. The sounds of ‘60s Soho blend into the present-day London scenes as Eloise is sucked further into the past. “One of the central ideas is that Sandie’s voice becomes part of the fabric of the film, so you hear her siren song from the ‘60s bleeding through into the present day, and Anya’s performances became an intrinsic part of it… I was so pleased that our lead actress could also be the lead singer in the film score; the whole thing knitted together,” said Price.

Regarding the authentic 60’s arrangements of songs “Downtown” and “Your My World” performed by Taylor-Joy, Price said, “my thought was, imagine if Sandie’s dreams come true and she got to do those songs at Café de Paris for real. So, we did the proper numbers, everything period accurate in Abbey Road. We then wanted to do a unique version of Downtown, building on the audition Sandy performs in the film.  We recorded a new slowed down version, combining the orchestra and textures of the film’s score to create a haunting new take on the song.”

It's all in service of meticulously creating a musical soundscape that supports Wright’s beautifully created world – or perhaps worlds – and this thrilling, chilling, story of following your dreams wherever they lead you, and the nightmares that can result.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Milan Records: "FOUND" music by Toby Chu

Milan Records today releases FOUND (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) with music by composer TOBY CHU. Available everywhere now, the album features score music written by Chu for the documentary film following three adopted American teenagers who journey to China together in search of their shared history after discovering they’re blood relatives. Also included on the album is “Mystery of Me,” an original vocal track performed by GRAMMY Award®-winning singer and actress PHILLIPA SOO and featuring singer-songwriter MILCK. Written by MILCK in collaboration with songwriter SIMON WILCOX, “Mystery of Me” features Soo’s soaring vocals as she sings, “I will always be uncovering the mystery of me / I will always keep on looking for who I am.” With its joyous chorus echoing the film’s onscreen themes, “Mystery of Me” is a fitting theme song for the film’s powerful narrative and the courage at the heart of the girls’ search for belonging. From documentary filmmaker Amanda Lipitz, Found debuts on Netflix today.

Of the score, composer TOBY CHU says, “Found is a distinctly human film that I think viewers will be moved by. It’s about loss, hope, our connection to one another, and sheds light on important events that changed the course of so many. My hope is the score helps to convey the girls’ experiences while honoring and shining a light on their story."

Of “Mystery of Me,” singer-songwriter MILCK says,” Writing the theme song ‘Mystery of Me’ with Simon Wilcox was a special moment, as we both have close experiences with adoption in our own lives… We delved into dramatic drumbeats and joyous choral lines to create a song for Phillipa Soo's vocals to soar. The power and expansiveness in Phillipa's voice is symbolic of how the three young women of Found expansively soar through the unknown… I hope that ‘Mystery of Me’ will provide a moment where all of us can feel closer to each other, no matter our heritages or backgrounds, because we are all united in the desire to belong, and to find more of who we are.”

Of her inclusion on the soundtrack, actress and singer PHILLIPA SOO adds, “I am so grateful to Amanda Lipitz for asking me to be a part of this beautiful documentary… Being a part of this project was rejuvenating for my spirit and made me so proud to be an Asian-American woman. I am so honored to have contributed to this authentic and heartwarming story.”

In Amanda Lipitz's documentary film, Found, three adopted American teenage girls discover that they are blood-related cousins. Their online meeting inspires the young women to confront complicated and emotional questions, and embark on a once in a lifetime journey to China together in search of answers, connections, and their lost history.

Toby Chu is a Chinese American film composer, with dual citizenship in the United States and Croatia. Toby recently scored two popular animated series: Netflix’s Centaurworld and Apple TV’s Emmy and Peabody award-winning Stillwater. In addition, he composed the score for Netflix’s documentary film Found where he also co-wrote an original song performed by Grammy award-winning singer and actress Phillipa Soo.

Toby has garnered acclaim for his score to Pixar’s Oscar-winning animated short Bao, which played in front of Incredibles 2. His works include Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Surf’s Up 2: WaveMania for Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Bros’ dramatic thriller Unforgettable, and New Line Cinema’s period thriller The Wolves at the Door. He also scored BRON Studios’ animation Henchman and NBC’s The Brave.

Toby collaborated with Daft Punk, arranging and orchestrating “Adagio for Tron” on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. His credits include musical contributions to Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Domino, and Team America: World Police.

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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Milan Records: "NIGHT TEETH" (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) music by Drum & Lace and Ian Hultquist

NIGHT TEETH (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) by Drum & Lace and Ian Hultquist (Dickinson, Good Girls). Available everywhere today, the album features the duo’s synth-infused original score that plays like a continuous mixtape throughout the stylish and suspense-filled vampire thrill ride. The gritty soundtrack plays like a roadmap of Los Angeles, with each city having its own signature sound and introducing new characters along the way.
 
Directed by Adam Randall and starring Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raúl Castillo, Alfie Allen, Alexander Ludwig, Sydney Sweeney and Megan Fox, Night Teeth is now available for streaming globally on Netflix – click HERE to watch.
 
Of the soundtrack, co-composers Drum & Lace and Ian Hultquist say, "We were so thrilled to be brought on to create the score for Night Teeth. From our very first conversation with Adam (Randall, Director), we knew this film would give us the chance to create something unique, exciting, and propulsive to complement the film's pacing and rhythm. We landed somewhere between electronica, synth-pop, and hip-hop, and we're really excited for folks to hear it in the film. We spent a lot of time to make sure that our score could hit as hard as all the excellent needle drops.  We loved that everyone on the music and film teams were so invested in this film and wanted to see it through as best as they could – this meant we got to work closely with Adam, the producers, our Music Supervisor Rob Lowry, super-star Music Editor Ben Zales, and the fantastic team at Netflix. We hope everyone enjoys this ride through Los Angeles as much as we enjoyed working on it!”
 
To earn some extra cash, quirky college student Benny (Jorge Lendeborg, Jr.) moonlights as a  chauffeur for one night. His task: drive two mysterious young women (Debby Ryan and Lucy Fry) around Los Angeles for a night of party hopping. Taken captive by his clients' charm, he soon learns that his passengers have their own plans for him – and an insatiable thirst for blood. As his night spins out of control, Benny is thrust into the middle of a clandestine war that pits rival tribes of vampires against the protectors of the human world, led by his brother (Raúl Castillo), who will stop at nothing to send them back into the shadows. With sunrise fast approaching, Benny is forced to choose between fear and temptation if he wants to stay alive and save the City of Angels.

Drum & Lace, aka Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist, is an Italian composer and performer that creates music for film and media. Melding together sampled field recordings, chamber instruments and lush layers of synths, she creates densely textural and beat-heavy music, greatly drawing from film music, music concrete and modern electronica. Her ambient and chamber work also gathers great inspiration from nature and natural sound, as well as the juxtaposition of unlikely sounds with one another.
 
Her feature-length film scoring credits include HBO documentary ‘At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal’ (dir. Erin Lee Carr), the noir-thriller ‘Deadly Illusions’ (dir. Anna Elizabeth James, Netflix), and upcoming film ‘Night Teeth’ (dir. Adam Randall, Netflix). Television credits include AppleTV+ Original Series ‘Dickinson’ (created by Alena Smith), NBC’s ‘Good Girls’ (created by Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs), and the upcoming Amazon series ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (created by Sara Goodman).  
 
Often including elements of spatial audio and sound installation, some of Drum & Lace’s more notable performances include The Echo Society VI: Family (Los Angeles, CA), Digital Discovery Festival for National Sawdust (New York, NY), a quadraphonic interactive performance at LA Central Library's Taper Auditorium with Suzanne Ciani (Los Angeles, CA), and Moogfest 2019 (Durham, NC). Drum & Lace is currently working on her first solo LP, due out in early 2022.  

Ian Hultquist is an American composer & producer based in Los Angeles, CA. Over the past few years, he has made a name for himself composing the scores for numerous films, documentaries, and TV shows. He started his career in music as a founding member of the band Passion Pit, which started in Boston, MA where he was studying Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music. He spent many years touring around the world and refining his productions skills as a Music Director. In 2014 he, along with his wife & fellow composer Sofia Hultquist (aka Drum & Lace), relocated to Los Angeles, to fully dedicate himself to working in music for film.
 
Ian has built a lasting working relationship with renowned directors in the film & documentary world, such as Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower, The First Monday in May) Erin Lee Carr (Mommy Dead & Dearest), and Alistair Legrand (Clinical). His recent credits include the Netflix horror film Rattlesnake (dir. Zak Hilditch), Apple TV+ series Dickinson (co-scored with Drum & Lace), After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News (dir. Andrew Rossi), How to Fix a Drug Scandal (dir. Erin Lee Carr), seasons 3 and 4 of NBC’s Good Girls (co-scored with Drum & Lace), and the feature Die in a Gunfight (dir. Collin Schiffli).
 
Ian’s 2021 projects include the Peacock series One of Us is Lying and three score collaborations with Drum & Lace: I Know What You Did Last Summer on Amazon, Night Teeth on Netflix, and season 3 of Dickinson on Apple TV+.
 
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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Hollywood Records: "Y: THE LAST MAN" music by Herdís Stefánsdóttir

Hollywood Records digitally releases the lead single "Requiem" by Herdís Stefánsdóttir from Y: THE LAST MAN Original Soundtrack for purchase and streaming. The single acts as the main titles for the series, and was composed as a "Requiem" for the lost men.
 
Speaking about the single, Icelandic composer Herdís Stefánsdóttir described, "Requiem was the first track I composed for Y: The Last Man. I recorded a cluster of female voices sometimes clashing and sometimes in harmony wanting to create a unanimous scream of despair, the primal scream." She continued, "The Requiem represents the internal feeling, the loss and serves as a remembrance of a fallen world."
 
A drama based on DC Comics’ acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better.
 
The ensemble cast features Diane Lane as “Jennifer Brown,” Ashley Romans as “Agent 355,” Ben Schnetzer as “Yorick Brown,” Olivia Thirlby as “Hero Brown,” Amber Tamblyn as “Kimberly Campbell Cunningham,” Marin Ireland as “Nora Brady,” Diana Bang as “Dr. Allison Mann,” Elliot Fletcher as “Sam Jordan,” Juliana Canfield as “Beth Deville” and Missi Pyle as “Roxanne.” All episodes of the season will be directed by women and the production has a significant number of female department heads, including both DPs, the production designer, costume designer, casting director, editors, stunt coordinator and more.
 
Developed for television by Eliza Clark, who serves as show-runner and executive producer along with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Coleman Herbert is Co-Executive Producer, with Nellie Reed and Anna Beben as Producers. Y: The Last Man is produced by FX Productions.
 
Y: The Last Man is a 60-issue science fiction comic book series published beginning in 2002. It received three Eisner Awards, and was nominated for the first Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for Y: The Last Man, Volume 10.

Herdís Stefánsdóttir is a composer of music for multimedia, a songwriter, and an electronic musician. Her compositional endeavors — installations in museums, dance, theatre, and a successful electronic music duet she is a part of – are establishing her as an expansive artist.
 
Herdís Stefánsdóttir graduated with an M.A. degree in film scoring from New York University in 2017. Since graduation she has scored two feature films, an HBO series and a few short films. Her scoring work includes FX series Y the Last Man, Ry Russo-Young’s MGM/Warner Bros. feature film The Sun Is Also a Star and the HBO series We’re Here. Herdís was nominated for The Icelandic Music Awards for her score in The Sun Is Also A Star.
 
Herdís interned for the Oscar nominated composer Jóhann Jóhannsson in Berlin while he was working on the film Arrival (2016) and she has scored numerous short films that have premiered at top-tier festivals around the world like Berlinale, TIFF, Sundance and Palm Springs International Film Festival. Herdís formed her electro-pop duo East of My Youth in 2015. East of My Youth’s music has been described as sensual and addictive as getting your tongue frozen to a glacier of pure honey (jajaja music). The duo has showcased at SxSW, Eurosonic Noorderslag, KEXP, Sonar Reykjavík and Iceland Airwaves.
 
Born in Reykjavík, Iceland, Herdís currently lives between Los Angeles and Reykjavík, where she works as a composer. 

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lakeshore Records: "ADDAMS FAMILY 2" music by Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna

Lakeshore Records released The Addams Family 2—Original Motion Picture Score Soundtrack digitally on October 15.  Composed by Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna (Onward, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus), the score combines non-western musical traditions with orchestral music to create a vividly unique backdrop to the creepy fun classic.  Based on the famous New Yorker creations of Charles Addams, MGM’s animated comedy features an all-star voice cast let by Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, , Chloë Grace Moretz, Javon “Wanna” Walton, Nick Kroll, Bette Midler and Snoop Dogg playing IT. Bill Hader joins the voice cast for the new installment as “Cyrus Strange.” Directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, The Addams Family 2 is in theaters and premium on demand.
 
Everyone’s favorite spooky family is back in the animated comedy sequel, The Addams Family 2. In this all-new movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, IT, as well as many new kooky characters. What could possibly go wrong?
 
Says Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna: “We had a terrific time re-entering the musical world of ‘The Addams Family’ that we developed on the first film. This musical world was gypsy instrumentation and modalities from Spain and Eastern Europe, which captured the history and dark humor of the family, combined with a cinematic orchestra: this gave us a tremendously colorful and lively palette to work with. Adding a dash of large gothic organ and musical saw to the brew, we created a sound that moved easily between large and frightening and whimsical.”

 

MYCHAEL DANNA is an Academy Award-winning film composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music. His body of work includes his Oscar-winning score for Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” following his collaborations with Lee on “The Ice Storm”(1997) and “Ride with the Devil” (1999).   Danna also received the 2013 Golden Globe Award for “Life of Pi.”
 
His other celebrated collaborations include those with Bennett Miller on his multiple Oscar-nominee “Moneyball,” in 2011 and his Oscar-winning drama “Capote,” in 2005; with Terry Gilliam on his Oscar-nominated “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” in 2009 and “Tideland,” in 2005; with Mira Nair on “Vanity Fair,” in 2004, “Monsoon Wedding,” in 2001 and “Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love,” in 1996; and with Billy Ray on “Breach,” in 2007 and “Shattered Glass,” in 2003. Danna’s credits also include the 2006 Oscar-winning “Little Miss Sunshine,” for which he shared a Grammy Award nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album; Marc Webb’s acclaimed romantic comedy “(500) Days of Summer” in 2009; and James Mangold’s 1999 Oscar-winning film “Girl, Interrupted.”
 
Mychael most recently scored the thriller “Stillwater” directed by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy starring Oscar winner Matt Damon.  He also co-scored the Amazon Original Movie “Cinderella” with Jessica Rose Weiss.  Mychael and Jeff Danna wrote the original score for the animated feature “The Addams Family 2” which is being released on October 1, 2021.
 
Among Mychael’s other awards are the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing (2013), the World Soundtrack Awards for Film Composer of the Year, and Best Score of the Year (both 2013), the Hollywood Film Award for Composer of the Year (2016), and the Career Achievment Award, Zürich Fim Festival (2021).

JEFF DANNA was born in Burlington, Ontario. A reluctant piano student at age eight, he found solace in the guitar at age eleven and began playing professionally at fifteen until a hand injury at age 21 curtailed his performance career. He subsequently began composing for films and moved to Los Angeles to continue working.
 
Danna has created scores for a long and varied list of films.  His credits include such diverse projects as the hit film adaptations of the video game/action franchises “Resident Evil: Apocalypse,” “Silent Hill” and “Silent Hill 2”; the Ryan Gosling-Anthony Hopkins legal drama “Fracture”; “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” and “Tideland,” both directed by Terry Gilliam; “Lakeview Terrace,” directed by Neil LaBute; a series of films for director Brett Morgen, including “The Kid Stays in The Picture,” “Chicago 10,” and the Kurt Cobain biopic “Montage of Heck”; “Closing the Ring” for director Richard Attenborough; and the cult classic “The Boondock Saints,” among others.
 
Jeff wrote the music for Guillermo Del Toro’s animated science fantasy series “Tales of Arcadia” for Netflix and produced by DreamWorks Animation which premiered in 2018.  Jeff and Mychael wrote the music for the animated feature "The Addams Family” which was released in 2019 and Disney and Pixar’s  Oscar nominated animated film “Onward” which opened in theaters on March 6, 2020 and for which they received an Annie nomination for Best Music - Feature.  Jeff and Mychael wrote the original score for the upcoming animated feature "The Addams Family 2” which is being released on October 1, 2021.
 
Together, Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna wrote the score for Pixar’s animated feature “The Good Dinosaur” in 2015 and received an Annie nomination for their music.  Mychael scored the Oscar-nominated short preceding the film, “Sanjay’s Super Team.”  The Danna brothers continued their collaboration on the score for “Storks” for Warner Animation Group, and on the Oscar nominated animated film “The Breadwinner,” for which they were Annie nominated for their original score, and won the best original music award from the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.  Mychael and Jeff Danna also scored the animated feature “The Addams Family” and Disney and Pixar’s Oscar nominated animated feature “Onward” which opened in theaters on March 6, 2020 and for which they received an Annie nomination for Best Music – Feature.

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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Universal Studios Home Entertainment: "STILLWATER" [BLU-RAY/DVD]

Unemployed roughneck Bill Baker (Academy Award®-winner Matt Damon) travels from Oklahoma to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter Allison (Academy Award®-nominee Abigail Breslin). Imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit. Allison seizes on a new tip that could exonerate her and presses Bill to engage her legal team. But Bill, eager to prove his worth and regain his daughters trust, takes matters into his own hands. He is quickly stymied by language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system—until he meets French actress Virginie (Camille Cottin), mother to eight-year-old Maya (Lilou Siauvaud). Together, these unlikely allies embark on a journey of discovery, truth, love and liberation. 

Cast: Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin
Casting By: Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee
Director of Photography: Masanobu Takayanagi ASC
Production Designer: Philip Messina
Edited By: Tom McArdle ACE
Music By: Mychael Danna
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, David Linde, Robert Kessel, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda
Produced By: Steve Golin p.g.a., Tom McCarthy p.g.a., Jonathan King p.g.a., Liza Chasin p.g.a.
Written By: Tom McCarthy & Marcus Hinchey and Thomas Bidegain & Noé Debré
Directed By: Tom McCarthy

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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Howlin' Wolf Records: "THE WITCHING SEASON" and "THEY LIVE INSIDE US"

"THE WITCHING SEASON" Music by Randin Graves and Slasher Dave. American horror anthology series created by Michael Ballif, written and directed by Ballif and James Morris, and produced by Morris, Allen Bradford, Jordan Swenson, and Parker Marcroft. The series consists of five interlocking segments that revolve around the Halloween season. Each episode, fueled by nostalgia, pays tribute to a different genre of horror. The score for The Witching Season is composed by Randin Graves and Slasher Dave.

"THEY LIVE INSIDE US" Music by Randin Graves. American independent horror film adaptation of episode #4 of The Witching Season anthology series. The feature film is directed by Michael Ballif and produced by Ballif, James Morris, Allen Bradford, and Jordan Swenson. A father and daughter spend Halloween night in the notoriously haunted Booth House with the father hoping to find inspiration for a new writing project, only to discover hidden secrets more sinister than either could imagine. The score for They Live Inside Us is composed by award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Randin Graves.

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Jeremy [Six Strings]

MVD Entertainment Group: "Sailor Suit And Machine Gun" [Limited Edition]

A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama and 'idol movie', inventively adapted from Jiro Akagawa's popular novel by director Shinji Somai (Typhoon Club, Wait and See), a massively influential figure in Japanese cinema whose work has been little seen outside his homeland. Hoshi Izumi is a young innocent forced to grow up quickly when her father dies and she finds herself next in line as the boss of a moribund yakuza clan. Wrenched from the security of her classroom and thrust into the heart of the criminal underworld, she must come to terms with the fact that her actions hold the key to the life or death of the men under her command as they come under fire from rival gangs. Presented in both its Original Theatrical and longer Complete versions, and the first time one of Somai's films has been released on home video in the West, this landmark work from his early career was responsible for launching teen talent Hiroko Yakushimaru (Legend of the Eight Samurai; Detective Story) as the iconic face of a generation, with the catchy theme song she performs indelibly etched into the zeitgeist of early-1980s Japan. 

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

MVD Entertainment Group: "Mill Of The Stone Women" [Limited Edition]

Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women - a classic tale of terror redolent with the atmosphere of vintage Hammer Horror. Young art student Hans von Arnam (Pierre Brice, Night of the Damned) arrives by barge at an old mill to write a monograph about its celebrated sculptures of women in the throes of death and torture, maintained and curated by the mill's owner, the hermetic Professor Wahl (Herbert Böhme, Secret of the Red Orchid). But when Hans encounters the professor's beautiful and mysterious daughter Elfi (Scilla Gabel, Modesty Blaise), his own fate becomes inexorably bound up with hers, and with the shocking secret that lies at the heart of the so-called Mill of the Stone Women. The first Italian horror film to be shot in color, Mill of the Stone Women prefigured a raft of other spaghetti nightmares, including the work of maestros Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Arrow Video is proud to present this brand-new restoration of one of the foundational titles of Italian horror.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

MVD Entertainment Group: "Phantom Of The Mall: Eric's Revenge" [Limited Edition]

With numerous interpretations of Gaston Leroux's classic novel The Phantom of the Opera having been turned out over the years, it was only a matter of time before the slasher genre decided to take a stab at the tale - step forward 1989's Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge! High school sweethearts Eric Matthews and Melody Austin are so in love, but their youthful romance is cut tragically short when Eric apparently dies in a fire that engulfs his family home. One year later and Melody is trying to move on with her life, taking up a job at the newly built Midwood Mall along with her friends. But the mall, which stands on the very site of Eric's former home, has an uninvited guest - a shadowy, scarred figure which haunts its air-ducts and subterranean passageways, hellbent on exacting vengeance on the mall's crooked developers. Directed by Richard Friedman (Scared Stiff, Doom Asylum), and featuring star turns from Pauly Shore and Morgan Fairchild, Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge swoops onto Blu-ray™ in an extras-packed edition which proves that Arrow Video's love for '80s slasher fare never dies!

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

MVD Entertainment Group: "The Hills Have Eyes" UHD [Limited Edition]

Horror master Wes Craven achieved critical and commercial success with the likes of Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street - but for many genre fans, the director's seminal 1977 effort The Hills Have Eyes remains his masterpiece. Taking an ill-advised detour en route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their campervan breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, the family find themselves at the mercy of a group of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills. With their lives under threat, the Carters have no choice but to fight back by any means necessary. Following on from his notorious 1972 directorial debut The Last House on the Left, Craven's The Hills Have Eyes stands alongside the likes of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead as one of the defining classics of American horror.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

MVD Entertainment Group: "DEEP RED" [Limited Edition]

YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IT!!! From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red - the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow-Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator... or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems... Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento-collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso and The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

MVD Entertainment Group: "Yokai Monsters Collection" [Limited Edition]

From the makers of Daimajin comes a trilogy of terror ripped from the pages of Japanese folklore, with ghosts and monsters from ancient myths and legends brought to life through stunning special effects, alongside an epic, big-budget reboot of the series from a modern-day master of the macabre, now available together on Blu-ray for the first time. In the first film in the trilogy, 100 Monsters, a greedy slumlord's attempts to forcefully evict his tenants invite the wrath of the titular spirits when a cleansing ritual is botched, with terrifying results. 

 

The second film, Spook Warfare, tells the tale of an evil Babylonian vampire inadvertently awoken by treasure hunters, and a brave samurai that teams with the yokai to defeat the bloodthirsty demon. In the final film, Along with Ghosts (released only 12 months after 100 Monsters), the yokai are roused to defend a young girl on the run from deadly yakuza. Decades later, none other than Takashi Miike (Audition) helmed The Great Yokai War, a loose remake of Spook Warfare that used cutting-edge digital effects to renew the franchise for a new generation. In it, a young boy is given a grave responsibility: to band together with a group of yokai to defend humanity against a vengeful and powerful demon that has sworn retribution against modern-day Japan.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

RLJE Films: "NO MAN OF GOD" [BLU-RAY/DVD]

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks,  will release the drama/thriller NO MAN OF GOD on DVD and Blu-ray on October 19, 2021.

Directed by Amber Sealey (No Light and No Land Anywhere), NO MAN OF GOD stars Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy), Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Aleksa Palladino (The Irishman) and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2). It was written by Kit Lesser.  The DVD and the Blu-ray.

In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency’s criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim’s families. As Hagmaier delves into Bundy’s dark and twisted mind, a strange and complicated relationship develops that neither man expected. Based on actual transcripts of interviews between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and the incarcerated Ted Bundy, No Man of God is “nothing short of riveting. It is a must-see” (Reel News Daily).

Check out the trailer: https://youtu.be/2vxm_IbS-6Y

RLJE Films’ recent and upcoming features include the critically acclaimed horror film The Dark And The Wicked from director Bryan Bertino; David Oyelowo’s directorial debut The Water Man; the intense No Man of God starring Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby from director Amber Sealey; and Sion Sono’s 2021 Sundance Film Festival premiere Prisoners of the Ghostland starring Nicolas Cage and Sofia Boutella.  us.rljentertainment.com

AMC Networks is a global entertainment company known for its popular and critically-acclaimed content. Its portfolio of brands includes AMC, BBC AMERICA (operated through a joint venture with BBC Studios), IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv, IFC Films, and a number of fast-growing streaming services, including the AMC+ premium streaming bundle, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now and ALLBLK. AMC Studios, the Company’s in-house studio, production and distribution operation, is behind award-winning owned series and franchises, including The Walking Dead, the highest-rated series in cable history. The Company also operates AMC Networks International, its international programming business, and 25/7 Media, its production services business. 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Hollywood Records: “THE LAST DUEL” music by Harry Gregson-Williams

The Last Duel Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is available today from Hollywood Records.  Celebrated composer Harry Gregson-Williams, who has worked with the film's director Ridley Scott numerous times over the past decade (The Martian, Kingdom of Heaven), perfectly captures both the drama and the period of the film.  Recorded in Los Angeles, the original score for "The Last Duel" was performed by a large orchestra and choir, in addition to featuring medieval instruments, including wooden flutes, hammer dulcimers, a consort of viols, a cathedral organ and a lute.  Gregson-Williams also worked with some exceptional and much in demand vocalists: Grace Davidson, who is one of Britain's leading sopranos is featured alongside the outstanding counter-tenor, Iestyn Davies.  Gregson-Williams had worked with Davies on Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven."  "The tone of his voice is so beautiful and is used in a very haunting way within the score," says Gregson-Williams about Davies. Accompanying these soloists was a vocal ensemble out of London called Voces8.  "There are just eight of them, and they are very, very precise (out of necessity) and the sound they make has a purity and accuracy that is as unique as it is wonderful," Gregson-Williams says.

The film's main thematic feel was inspired by the track "Celui Que Je Désire" which Gregson-Williams wrote while the film was in production in Ireland and France and features Grace Davidson, which plays over the final scene of the film following the aftermath of the duel.  Notes Gregson-Williams, "I sent the song to Ridley and he reacted really well to it, so we decided to use the song's melody as a source of thematic material that could be used throughout the score."

"Ridley is full of ideas and questions when it comes to music. He gives me a clear direction for an overall feel and tone to the score that he's looking for.  He is an artist first and foremost, and I know that he paints rather well.  He might talk to me using expressions and language that apply to painting but they have a similar connotation with music," added Gregson-Williams.

ABOUT "THE LAST DUEL" "The Last Duel" is a gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality of 14th century France. A cinematic and thought-provoking drama set in the midst of the Hundred Years War, the film explores the ubiquitous power of men, the frailty of justice, and the strength and courage of one woman willing to stand alone in the service of truth. Based on actual events, the film unravels long-held assumptions about France's last sanctioned duel between Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris, two friends turned bitter rivals.

"The Last Duel" stars Oscar winner Matt Damon ("Good Will Hunting," "Ford v Ferrari"), two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver ("Marriage Story," "BlacKkKlansman"), Emmy winner Jodie Comer ("Killing Eve," "Free Guy"), two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck ("Argo," "Good Will Hunting") and Harriet Walter ("Atonement," "Sense and Sensibility"). Directed by four-time Academy Award nominee Ridley Scott ("The Martian," "Black Hawk Down," "Gladiator," "Thelma & Louise") with a screenplay by Oscar nominee Nicole Holofcener ("Can You Ever Forgive Me?") & Ben Affleck & Matt Damon based on the book by Eric Jager. The film is produced by Ridley Scott, p,g.a., Kevin J. Walsh, p.g.a. ("Manchester by the Sea"), Jennifer Fox, p.g.a. ("Nightcrawler"), Nicole Holofcener, p.g.a., Matt Damon, p.g.a., Ben Affleck, p.g.a., with Kevin Halloran ("Ford v Ferrari"), Drew Vinton ("Promised Land"), Madison Ainley ("Justice League") serving as executive producers.

ABOUT HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS: One of Hollywood's most sought-after and prolific composers whose long list of film and television credits underscore the diverse range of his talents.  Gregson-Williams wrote the music for Disney's live action feature film "Mulan" which was directed by Niki Caro with whom he worked previously having scored her film "The Zookeeper's Wife."  Gregson-Williams also co-wrote the original song "Loyal Brave True" for "Mulan" performed by Christina Aguilera.  Upcoming projects for Gregson-Williams include "The Last Duel" and "House of Gucci" both directed by Ridley Scott. He was the composer on all four installments of the animated blockbuster "Shrek" franchise, garnering a BAFTA Award nomination for the score for the Oscar-winning "Shrek."  He received Golden Globe and Grammy Award nominations for his score for Andrew Adamson's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." He has collaborated multiple times with a number of directors, including Ben Affleck on "Live by Night," "The Town" and "Gone Baby Gone"; Joel Schumacher on "Twelve," "The Number 23," "Veronica Guerin" and "Phone Booth"; Tony Scott on "Unstoppable," "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," "Déjà Vu," "Domino," "Man on Fire," "Spy Game" and "Enemy of the State"; Ridley Scott on "The Martian," "Prometheus," "Exodus: Gods and Kings," "Kingdom of Heaven" and the upcoming "The Last Duel" and "House of Gucci"; Bille August on "Return to Sender" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow"; Andrew Adamson on the "Shrek" series, the first two "Narnia" movies and "Mr. Pip"; and Antoine Fuqua on "The Replacement Killers," "The Equalizer," The Equalizer 2" and "Infinite." Some of his other recent film projects include the upcoming "The Ambush" directed by Pierre Morel, "Life in a Day 2020" directed Kevin Macdonald, "The Meg" directed by Jon Turteltaub, Aardman Animation's "Early Man" directed by Nick Park for which he received an Annie Award nomination and Disneynature's "Penguins."  His television credits include "Whiskey Cavalier," the miniseries "Catch-22" and creating the main title theme and scoring two episodes of the anthology series "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" for which he received an Emmy nomination for the episode titled "The Commuter."

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lions Gate Records: "HEELS: SEASON ONE" music by Jeff Cardoni

Lions Gate Records has digitally released music from season one of the STARZ Original Television Series “Heels”, composed by Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, The Kominsky Method). The album is available today, in conjunction with the recently aired climactic season finale. The score predominantly features electric guitar, augmented with strings and piano to reflect the gritty, down-to-earth world the wrestling drama is set in. The opening track “Love in War” (Main Title Theme) features Ben Bridwell, fron-tman of the Grammy-nominated American rock group Band of Horses. The complete season of “Heels” is available for streaming on STARZPLAY.
 
Jeff Cardoni says, ‘Heels’ was a dream project work on—I feel it’s the most personal representation of what I do to date. I owe a debt of gratitude to music supervisor Jonathan Leahy. Through him I was given a chance to read the script and submit a demo. I stayed up all that night and wrote a piece of music called “Crystal Belongs in the Ring,” and thought nothing of it. Low and behold, [Executive Producer and] Showrunner Mike O’Malley loved the cue and hired me based on that and my recently released solo album ‘Nuovo Futuro,’ which coincidentally had the instrumental sound I envisioned for the show. Flash forward a year later, and the themes in that first piece of music became the main building blocks of the score and the cue itself appears in the big climax of the season finale.”
 
“Heels” is a story about the men and women who chase their dreams in the world of small town pro wrestling. Set in a close-knit Georgia community, it follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel. But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to — or hard to leave behind.
 
In addition to O’Malley, the show is written and created by executive Producer Michael Waldron. Peter Segal, who directs several episodes, also serves as Executive Producer along with Christopher Donnelly, and Patrick Walmsley. “Heels” stars Stephen Amell as Jack Spade, with Alexander Ludwig playing his younger brother, Ace, and aired its Season 1 finale on Sunday, October 10. “Heels” is now available on the STARZ App.

Jeff Cardoni’s talents range from intimate independent fare to full orchestral majesty. With over 45 feature film scores and several network series to his credit, one can hear his work worldwide every day. His unique ability to cross genres has made him a powerful player in the film composing industry.
 
His body of work ranges from studio features such as Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Step Up: All In, and Just Friends, to independent films such as The Confirmation from Oscar nominated Bob Nelson (Nebraska) and the Sundance darling The Vicious Kind. His television scores include the Starz wrestling drama Heels, the Disney+ legacy sequel Turner and Hooch, Mike Judge’s hit Silicon Valley for HBO, the CBS drama Training Day with the late Bill Paxton, the highest rated comedy of the year Young Sheldon for Chuck Lorre, and the worldwide Jerry Bruckheimer produced hit CSI: Miami.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

WaterTower Music: "SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE" music by Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine

WaterTower Music is proud to announce the release of the soundtrack to the HBO® Original Limited Series Scenes from a Marriage, which features music from fraternal composing duo Evgueni Galperine & Sacha Galperine (The Undoing, Loveless, Radioactive, Paterno). A modern adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's classic Swedish series of the same name Scenes from a Marriage is a five-part limited series following Mira (Jessica Chastain), an ambitious tech executive left unfulfilled by her marriage, and Jonathan (Oscar Isaac), an accommodating philosophy professor desperate to keep their relationship intact. The soundtrack is now available, and show airs on HBO and is available to stream on HBO Max. 

 

Composing brothers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, who merged their exceptional talents to create the score, discussed their work and approach to the music for the HBO series.  "We thought that a minimalistic and repetitive approach would be the appropriate musical key to Scenes from a Marriage. It seemed to perfectly fit the idea of some everyday routine with its repetition of the same gestures and actions in which every little detail, every little change, could be of a huge importance. The score,” continued the acclaimed composing duo, “is acoustic, intimate, and employs melodies which are simple in appearance but in which we always include some little twists, some ‘out-of-the-box’ elements giving the ensemble the perfume of something unexpected."

 

In 1990, brothers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine relocated to France, from their native Russia, to complete the classical music training they’d begun in Moscow. Soon after arriving in Paris, Evgueni was drawn to composing film scores while still studying symphonic composition and electro-acoustic music at the National Conservatory (CNSM) in Paris. Sacha turned to rock and electronic music after receiving a first prize for violin performance at the Conservatory of Versailles.
 
For several years, Evgueni and Sacha have pooled their respective talents and experience to create music for cinema. Their exceptionally broad musical palette, knowledge of cinema and distinctive sound, has rapidly won the duo the notice of directors from diverse origins and genres. Examples of their work include scores for Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Past by Asghar Farhadi, The Wizard of Lies by Barry Levinson, The Family by Luc Besson, Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa, By the Grace of God by François Ozon and Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov.
 
The Galperines have also scored a number of acclaimed TV shows and limited series including The Undoing by Susanne Bier (HBO), the French hit series Le Baron Noir by Ziad Doueri, and the recent Scenes From a Marriage by Hagai Levi (HBO).
 
2021 sees the brothers working on two of the most remarkable European films: Happening by Audrey Diwan (Golden Lion at Venice IFF) and Murina by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic (The Camera d’Or at Cannes IFF).

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lakeshore Records: "SEE: SEASON 2" music by Bear McCreary

Season 2 picks up with our lead, Baba Voss (Momoa), who fights to keep his family out of the war brewing on the horizon. The situation becomes more complicated when his estranged brother, Edo (Bautista), arrives on the scene seemingly intent on making Baba suffer — and having a personal hand in taking away everything his brother loves. Additionally, with the rise of sighted children being born, it appears that those who have vision might end up having the power.

Emmy® and BAFTA award-winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and he has twice been awarded ASCAP Composer of the Year by his peers.
 
McCreary’s recent projects include Kevin Smith’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation; Activision’s Call of Duty: Vanguard; acclaimed documentary Crip Camp, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama; Godzilla: King of the Monsters; and the blockbuster video game God of War, for which he received a BAFTA® Award. Other project highlights include 10 Cloverfield Lane; Child’s Play; Netflix’s hit animated film, Animal Crackers; the hit TV series, Outlander; The Walking Dead; and  Marvels’ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 
For more information, visit:
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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lakeshore Records: "DON’T BREATHE 2" Music by Roque Baños

In the thrilling sequel to the breakout hit, DON’T BREATHE 2 reprises Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang), who has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin. He lives with a young girl and has recreated the family stolen from him by a drunk driver. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of unseemly criminals kidnaps her and forces Norman to tap into even darker and more creative instincts in an effort to save her.
 
Says Baños: "It has been such a blast working with Rodo in this film, and a great honor. It is also a great honor to work again with Lakeshore for this album as we did on the first ‘Don't Breathe’-- it was a remarkable experience. I very much hope all listeners enjoy hearing this intense mixture of sounds and tones as much as I did composing the score. Have a scary journey to see what the blindman sees."

Roque Baños was born in Jumilla (Murcia) in 1968. He began his musical education at the age of 9, in the "Conservatorio Superior de Música de Murcia" where he finished elementary level, specializing in saxophone, obtaining Honors in both Music Theory and Saxophone. In 1986, he moved to Madrid, where he completed studies in Saxophone, Piano, Music Theory, Composition and Conducting. at the “Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid” with honors and several merits mentions. In 1993, receives a grant from the Ministry of Culture in Spain to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he graduated "Summa Cum Laude" in the fields of Film Scoring and Performance in 1995, receiving in addition the "Robert Share Award" for demonstrating the highest musical-dramatic level in the area of film music composition, and an "Achievement Award" for his outstanding performance abilities.
 
In 1997, he was committed to do his first Film Score "Back Roads" directed by Emilio Martinez Lazaro, one of the most acclaimed directors in Spain. After this success, he has worked with many of the Spanish most renowned directors, such as Alex de la Iglesia, Daniel Monzon, Carlos Saura, Santiago Segura to name a few, and he has earned international recognition working with acclaimed directors such as Terry Gilliam, Ron Howard, Kevin Reynolds, Spike Lee, Jonathan Glazor, Brad Anderson amongst others. A special mention to his first US production "Evil Dead" directed by Fede Alvarez, with whom he has a close personal and professional relationship, has opened a door to the American Market, without disappearing from his origins in the Spanish Film Industry, where he keeps an intense work.
 
His latest works are “Don’t breathe” directed by Fede Álvarez, “Don´t breathe II” by Rodo Sayagues, “The Commuter” by Jaume Collet Serra, “Miracle Season” by Sean McNamara, “The man who killed Don Quixote” directed by Terry Gilliam, that it was premiered closing-night of Cannes, “The Girl in the Spider´s Web” directed by Fede Álvarez, , “Padre no hay más que uno”, “Padre no hay más que uno II” & “A todo tren” directed by Santiago Segura, “30 coins” directed by Álex de la Iglesia”, “His house” by Remi Weekes, and “Come play” by Jacob Chase.
 
Actually, he is working on “UMMA” by Iris K. Shim, produced by Sam Raimi

For more information, visit:
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Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lakeshore Records: "LORELEI" music by Jeff Russo

A man is released from prison after 15 years and reunites with his high school girlfriend, who is now a single mother of three.

Jeff Russo is an Emmy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television and video games. Russo just received two Emmy nominations this year. One for his score of FX Networks’ Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning series Fargo, for which he won an Emmy in 2016 and earned two additional nominations. The second, for HBO Max’s Oslo, which he co-composed with Zoë Keating. Russo also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Music for Annapurna Interactive's video game, What Remains of Edith Finch.
 
Russo’s film credits include Bartlett Sher’s Oslo, starring Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott; Sabrina Doyle’s Lorelei, starring Jena Malone and Pablo Schreiber, which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival; Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival; Craig Macneill’s Lizzie, starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival; Peter Berg’s action-thriller film, Mile 22, starring Mark Wahlberg; and Jon Avnet’s Three Christs, starring Richard Gere, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
 
His music can also be heard on shows such as CBS’s Clarice, starring Rebecca Breeds and Michael Cudlitz; Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart; and Star Trek: Discovery,  starring Sonequa Martin-Green and Anthony Rapp; FX’s Fargo, starring Chris Rock and Jessie Buckley; Legion, starring Dan Stevens and Rachel Keller; and Snowfall, staring Isaiah John and Amin Joseph; Apple TV+’s For All Mankind, starring Joel Kinnaman and Michael Dorman; Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, starring Elliott Page and Mary J. Blige; Cursed, starring Katherine Langford; and Altered Carbon, starring Chris Conner and Renée Elise  Goldsberry; Hulu's The Act, starring Patricia Arquette; Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost, a sequel to Power, produced by Curtis Jackson “50 Cent; and Counterpart, starring J.K. Simmons; HBO’s Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated series The Night Of, starring John Tuturro; and more.
 
In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo is a founding member, lead guitarist and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling rock band, Tonic. Their debut album, Lemon Parade, posted three singles in the U.S. Mainstream rock charts' Top 10 with “If You Could Only See” rocketing to number one. In 2003, the band received two Grammy nominations, one for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” for “Take Me As I Am,” and one for “Best Rock Album.”
 
For more information, visit:
www.lakeshorerecords.com

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lakeshore Records: "DECEIT" music by Mark Canham

“Deceit” is a British four-part television drama miniseries, based on the true story of a controversial undercover operation carried out by the Metropolitan Police in 1992. Niamh Algar stars as the undercover police officer, code-named "Lizzie James", who attempts to entrap Colin Stagg, the police's prime suspect.

 

Using a multitude of tools, both of an instrumental nature & others not so conventional, Marc Canham’s otherworldly film scores, compositions & various collaborations paint an ever so effective and vivid imagery, inviting listeners into a sublime aural journey.
 
With a sound palette that traverses vast sonic terrains, Canham’s bespoke aural alchemy is the result of seamlessly blending the acoustic & electronic realms, experimenting with unorthodox audio oddities and discovering the curious nuances and unpredictability of sound. Exploring innumerable sonic colors, textures and forms, these passages range from solitary moments of reflective quietude to grand walls of immense and mesmeric sound.  
 
Canham’s approach has resulted in a body of work that has received great acclaim and recognition within the worlds of film, art and interactive soundtracks; including the recently completed film score to ‘I Care A Lot’, the Netflix Original feature film 'CLOSE', ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’ and ‘Burn Burn Burn’, in addition to the internationally acclaimed ‘The Danger Tree’ augmented reality art installation.
 
Ethereal ambience, dark mysticism & futuristic elements all effortlessly fuse in Canham’s creations, consistently crafting a micro-cosmos for the audience to immerse themselves within.

Lakeshore Records works with the most respected, award-winning artists and composers such as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Nicholas Britell, Hans Zimmer, Grimes, Common, Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi, Tim Hecker, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Sam Slater,  Willie Nelson, Alexandre Desplat, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Run the Jewels, PJ Harvey, Philip Glass, Aloe Blacc, Willie Nelson, Rhiannon Ghiddens, Daniel Lanois, Nicholas Britell, Ziggy Marley, Danny Elfman, Giorgio Moroder, Aska Matsumiya, Clint Mansell, Bootsie Collins, Thomas Newman, Kris Bowers, Cliff Martinez, Randy Newman, James Horner, Gunship, Mark Isham, Kathryn Bostic, Carter Burwell, Bear McCreary, Emile Mosseri,  Rolfe Kent, Josh Homme, Gustavo Santaolalla, Nina Kraviz, Dario Marianelli, Mark Mothersbaugh, The JBs, Gazelle Twin, Mary J. Blige, Christophe Beck, Rachel Portman, Amanda Jones, Jeff Russo, Henry Jackman, Marco Beltrami, Ben Lovett, Keegan Dewitt and many many more.
 
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www.lakeshorerecords.com

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Lakeshore Records: "BROKEN DIAMONDS" music by Keegan DeWitt and Dabney Morris

A young writer sees his dream put in jeopardy when he has to take care of his mentally ill sister.
 
About Keegan DeWitt
Keegan DeWitt is one of the more versatile and exciting young composers working in film and TV in 2018. Whether adding a refreshing voice to larger projects at HBO, SHOWTIME and FOX, or collaborating alongside notable independent filmmakers; his work crosses a large tapestry of styles and demands attention with its originality and emotion.
 
Over the past 5 years, Keegan has brought 15 films to the Sundance Film Festival; titles that would go on to garner an Academy Award, multiple Sundance Audience Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award. His work can also be heard on HBO’s “Divorce”. In addition to this, Keegan continues to expand on previous collaborative relationships with exciting young directors that have helped make his work a mainstay at festivals worldwide.
 
Alongside his work as a composer, he has performed as a singer-songwriter and was founding member of the band Wild Cub. Their song "Thunder Clatter" found success at radio and took them around the globe,  with appearances on Jimmy Fallon and Conan Obrien.
 
About Dabney Morris
Dabney Morris is an award-winning composer, arranger, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles.
 
His chamber works have been performed by the Alias Chamber Ensemble and Lockeland Strings. As a composer for film & TV, Morris has composed original music for the award-winning feature film, Almost Love, the upcoming feature film, Broken Diamonds and the short film, Compression Diary. He’s provided additional music for TV series like, Sorry For Your Loss, Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, A Teacher, and arranged and orchestrated on the Netflix original film, All The Bright Places.
 
He has arranged for artists such as Louis Prince, Skyway Man, and Alexander Wren.
 
As a producer, Morris has worked on records by Wild Cub, MYZICA, Ezra Carey, Bryan Cates, and others.
 
Dabney is co-founder of Chamber House, a series of modern chamber music concerts hosted in intimate venues in Los Angeles. He is also the host of the Chamber House Podcast.
 
Lakeshore Records is a four-time Grammy Nominated record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group.  Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Drive, Stranger Things, The Old Guard, Cyberpunk 2077, When They See Us, The Handmaid's Tale, Black Mirror, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, Les Miserables, Mandy, Narcos, Logan, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legion, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
 
For more information, visit:
www.lakeshorerecords.com

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Ubisoft: "Far Cry® 6: Complete Music" (Original Game Soundtrack) music by Pedro Bromfman

Brazilian composer Pedro Bromfman, perhaps best known for his music form Narcos and Robocop, is providing the score for the Far Cry® 6, the next entry in Ubisoft's critically acclaimed narrative-driven video game series.

For the new entry in the long-running series, Bromfman creates music that is drenched in lush soundscapes, driving percussion, processed organic instruments and a ton of synthesizers. The game takes place in the fictional country of Yara, and the music reflects its surroundings with roots in traditional Latin American and Caribbean music, while being completely free to experiment with contemporary sounds, elements and techniques.

Bromfman brings the listener into the evocative world of Far Cry® 6, marked by expanding synths wrapped around dark-cloaked strings with a pulse that continues to build throughout. His score for Far Cry® 6 has a clear artistic vision, with distinctive, haunting melodies and character themes, fully immersing the listener. He calls it "a journey full of beauty, violence, adrenaline and passion," and it’s hard to disagree with those descriptions once the entirety of the score is taken in.

Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Bromfman has been writing, playing and producing ‘Music For Images’ for nearly twenty years. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Pedro has worked as a session musician, music producer and arranger, before his passion for film scores brought him to Los Angeles.

Since moving to California, Pedro has composed scores for MGM’s RoboCop; three seasons of the hugely popular Netflix series Narcos; the EPIX feature documentary Deep Web, narrated by Keanu Reeves; the 6-part series The Story Of Us With Morgan Freeman for Nat Geo; Jessica Sanders’ Sundance hit End Of The Line; the 8-part series Chain Of Command and Alex Winter’s Panama Papers, narrated by Elijah Wood.

Some of his early credits include scores for Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad), winner of the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival; the HBO feature documentary They Killed Sister Dorothy; March of the Living; Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within), the most successful Latin-American film to date; the romantic comedy and Brazilian blockbuster Qualquer Gato Vira-Lata; G-Dog, and the video game Max Payne 3 for Rockstar Games.

Pedro Bromfman has been awarded two Gold Medals for Excellence in Film Music at the Park City Film Music Festival, an ASCAP Award, a Guarani Award for best original score, nominated for two Cinema Brazil Grand Prizes (Brazilian Oscars), a Hollywood Music in Media Award, an ACIE Award and a Premio Contigo! De Cinema

Set in Yara, a tropical paradise frozen in time in the heart of the Caribbean, players will experience the adrenaline rush and chaos of guerrilla combat as they join the revolution to liberate Yaran people from the oppressive rule of dictator Antón Castillo and his teenage son Diego – brought to life by Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian, Breaking Bad) and Anthony Gonzalez (Coco).

As local Yaran and military dropout Dani Rojas, players will be swept up in the guerrilla movement as the brutality of Antón’s rule reaches new heights and the fire of revolution ignites across the country. Players will be able to choose to play Dani as a woman or a man, and will join forces with a colorful cast of characters, including Clara Garcia, the leader of revolutionary group Libertad, or Juan Cortez, a jaded ex-KGB spy and guerrilla master as they fight their way to take down the tyrant.

Far Cry® 6 will release on October 7 worldwide on Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Stadia, Amazon Luna and for Windows PC exclusively on both the Epic Games Store and the Ubisoft Store. The game will also be available on Ubisoft+*, Ubisoft’s subscription service.

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, with a rich portfolio of world-renowned brands, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, For Honor, Just Dance, Watch Dogs, Tom Clancy’s video game series including Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six and The Division. The teams throughout Ubisoft’s worldwide network of studios and business offices are committed to delivering original and memorable gaming experiences across all popular platforms, including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and PCs.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Hollywood Records: “JUST BEYOND” music by Carlos Rafael Rivera

The JUST BEYOND ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK was released today via Hollywood Records and is now available on all digital platforms. The original score was composed and produced by acclaimed, two-time Emmy Award-winning composer, Carlos Rafael Rivera (“The Queen’s Gambit,” “Hacks,” “A Walk Among The Tombstones”) who deftly captures the essence of each storyline in the eight-episode series and had this to say about the project, “Scoring a Disney Project has been a lifelong dream, not only in getting to work with the likes of Seth Grahame-Smith and Marc Webb, but being part of the musical story telling that makes us all feel that Disney magic!” JUST BEYOND is now available to stream on Disney+.

Inspired by the writings of R.L. Stine, “Just Beyond” is an eight-episode anthology series that tells astonishing and thought-provoking stories of a reality just beyond the one we know. Each episode introduces viewers to a new cast of characters who must go on a surprising journey of self-discovery in a supernatural world of witches, aliens, ghosts and parallel universes.
 
Seth Grahame-Smith is writer and showrunner of “Just Beyond.” The series, based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novels by R.L. Stine, is executive produced by Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg and Aaron Schmidt via KatzSmith Productions. David Walpert and Marc Webb also serve as executive producers alongside Ross Richie, Stephen Christy and Mark Ambrose of BOOM!. Stine is attached as co-executive producer. “Just Beyond” is produced by 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios.
 
CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA is an Emmy and SCL winning composer, whose career has spanned several genres of the music industry. Having scored one of the most viewed NETFLIX Limited Series of all time, THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, and helmed by writer/director Scott Frank. Carlos won a Primetime Emmy Award for THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT and was nominated for World Soundtrack Awards’ TV Composer of the Year, while having received an SCL (Society of Composers and Lyricists), a Hollywood Music in Media (HMMA), and two International Film Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards.
 
His work for Film and TV includes scores for Netflix’ GODLESS, for which he also received a Primetime Emmy, Universal Pictures’ A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, starring Liam Neeson, the hit TV show and 15-time EMMY nominated show HACKS for HBO Max, starring Jean Smart, as well as JUST BEYOND for DISNEY +, and LA REINA DEL SUR 3 for TELEMUNDO.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Milan Records: "LAMB" music by Tóti Guðnason

Milan Records today releases LAMB (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) an album of music composed by Icelandic composer and guitarist TÓTI GUÐNASON for A24’s newest folk thriller. Available everywhere now, the album features score music written by Guðnason for the terrifying debut feature from writer-director Valdimar Jóhannsson set in the Icelandic wilds. Having worked alongside his sister Hildur Guðnadóttir on her Oscar®-winning original score for Joker and with Ólafur Arnalds on his BAFTA-winning soundtrack to Broadchurch, Tóti Guðnason makes his debut as lead composer with Lamb. A dark and unnatural folktale for the ages, Lamb is available in theaters now from A24.

“Lamb was initially intended to be completely without a score, and I feel that is a humbling starting point for a composer,” says Tóti Guðnason of his work on the film. “Growing up in the north of Iceland I’m very familiar with the feeling of rural silence. That feeling is extraordinarily well portrayed by Valdimar Jóhannsson in Lamb and I did my best to play into it while respecting it. My responsibility was to create something more fitting than silence, and silence can be the greatest of sounds.”

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson.

Tóti Guðnason (Þórarinn Guðnason) is a composer and guitarist from Reykjavík, Iceland. Lamb is his first score as a sole composer after having worked as an arranger and composer's assistant with a variety of renowned artists. Some notable work includes the Oscar-winning original score for Joker (2019) by his sister Hildur Guðnadóttir, BAFTA-winning soundtrack for Broadchurch (2015) by Ólafur Arnalds, and score for Netflix series Katla (2021) by Högni Egilsson.

Tóti graduated in classical composition from the Iceland University of the Arts and has been a touring musician both with his art metal band Agent Fresco and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. Working closely with Jóhannsson on various film and studio works, Tóti contributed both musical direction and arrangements for his pieces. Agent Fresco quickly found international notice and have become a household name in the progressive experimental music scene.

Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, Milan Records, XXIM Records and Masterworks Broadway imprints. For email updates and information please visit https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracks.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]