Sony Music Masterworks: "VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE" music by MARCO BELTRAMI

Sony Music Masterworks today announces the October 1 release of VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by award-winning composer MARCO BELTRAMI (Scream, Resident Evil, A Quiet Place). Available to preorder now, the album features score music written by Beltrami for the highly anticipated sequel to the 2018 worldwide box office hit film Venom. Making their debut today alongside album preorder are two lead singles from the soundtrack – listen to “Carnage Unleashed” and “Venom and Blues” here. Sony Pictures film, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, will be released exclusively in movie theaters on Friday, October 1.

Of the soundtrack, composer MARCO BELTRAMI says, “Because of COVID restrictions, we had to change the way we worked on processing acoustical sounds. Where we’d normally work with live musicians to create source material, here we had musicians record at home and then re-amp them at Sony. In addition, we worked with feedback looping to create some of the aggressive tones for Carnage. The film presented a lot of fun musical challenges, from a unique enhanced brass theme for Venom, to the altered woodwind theme for Carnage and Shriek, to a slightly bluesy feel for Eddie. Overall, in spite of those COVID restrictions, I feel very lucky we were able to still record many of the orchestral sessions at Sony and have it come out sounding so good!”

Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of MARVEL’s greatest and most complex characters. Directed by Andy Serkis, the film also stars Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris and Woody Harrelson, in the role of the villain Cletus Kasady/Carnage.

Screenplay by Kelly Marcel. Story by Tom Hardy & Kelly Marcel. Based on the Marvel Comics. Produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy and Hutch Parker. Executive Producers are Barry Waldman, Jonathan Cavendish and Ruben Fleischer. The film also stars Reid Scott and Stephen Graham.

Marco Beltrami is a two-time Oscar®-nominated composer. He has collaborated with many iconic film directors including Kathryn Bigelow, James Mangold, Bong Joon-ho, Angelina Jolie, Robert Rodriguez, Luc Besson, Guillermo Del Toro, Wes Craven, Alex Proyas, Jonathan Mostow, Roland Joffé, Jodie Foster, David E. Kelley and Tommy Lee Jones.

The composer established an early reputation as a genre innovator with his non-traditional horror scores for the Scream franchise. Beltrami’s musical palette has since expanded to virtually all film genres. Beltrami has received accolades for his music including two Academy Award nominations for Best Score: 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, and for Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, starring Jeremy Renner, co-scored with frequent collaborator Buck Sanders. In 2011 Beltrami won a Golden Satellite Award (Best Film Score of the Year) for Soul Surfer. Beltrami scored the Marvel film Logan, directed by James Mangold, and Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, First They Killed My Father. He also wrote the theme for the hit video game Fortnite. Beltrami scored the critically acclaimed box-office hit A Quiet Place, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Score and shortlisted for Best Score for the Oscars. Beltrami won an Emmy® Award for National Geographic’s 2019 Oscar winning documentary Free Solo, (with co-composer Brandon Roberts) for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary, Series or Special.

He has lent his voice to such unique hit films as Live Free or Die Hard, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and I, Robot. His other scores include The Homesman directed by Tommy Lee Jones, the zombie comedy Warm Bodies directed by Jonathan Levine, the final installment of the Bruce Willis action series A Good Day To Die Hard, Snowpiercer starring Chris Evans and directed by Bong Joon-ho, the Brad Pitt action thriller World War Z, James Mangold’s The Wolverine, and The Night Before also directed by Jonathan Levine, starring Seth Rogan and Joseph Gordon Levitt.

Beltrami co-scored James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari (Twentieth Century Studios) with Buck Sanders, for which they were shortlisted for Best Score for the 2020 Oscars, with the film going on to receive four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.  Other recent projects include Guillermo Del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, the Lionsgate comedy Long Shot starring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen, the Zac Efron-starrer Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile, and Evil and the Paramount Pictures adventure comedy Love and Monsters. Recently for Beltrami was the Paramount Pictures’ horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II, Netflix’s horror film Fear Street, Sony Pictures action horror sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and the Lionsgate sci-fi feature Chaos Walking starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley.

Upon completing his undergraduate studies at Brown University, Beltrami entered the Yale School of Music on a scholarship. His pursuit of music composition then led him to Venice, Italy for a period of study with the Italian master Luigi Nono, and then to Los Angeles for a fellowship with Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "SABLE" music by JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Sony Music Masterworks today releases JAPANESE BREAKFAST’s Original Soundtrack to SABLE, an album of instrumental and vocal music featured in the open-world video game. Drawing from her years of songwriting experience, the 32-track collection finds musician, director and author Michelle Zauner making new explorations into ambient and experimental music, the resulting soundtrack as breathtaking and otherworldly as the game itself. The album was initially introduced with lead single “Glider” in August, garnering critical acclaim from the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, NME, American Songwriter, UPROXX and more, with both Pitchfork and Entertainment Weekly naming the soundtrack one of their most anticipated albums of Fall 2021. From indie game developer Shedworks and publisher Raw Fury, Sable is now available to play with Xbox Game Pass on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PC.

Of the soundtrack, JAPANESE BREAKFAST says, “I was so lucky Daniel Fineberg and Gregorios Kythreotis from Shedworks invited me onto this game so early on. I was immediately captivated by the world they’d built, a desert planet filled with mysterious natural and architectural wonders, and the story they’d imagined, one of a young girl coming of age through exploration. It was important to me that each biome in this world felt unique. I used woodwinds and vocal layering to make monumental ruins feel ancient and unknown, industrial samples and soft synths to make atomic ships feel cold and metallic, classical guitar and bright piano to make encampments feel cozy and familiar. I wanted the main themes to recall iconic works of Joe Hisaishi and Alan Menken, to fill the listener with the childlike wonder of someone on the precipice of a grand discovery."

Also available for pre-order today is the vinyl edition of the soundtrack, which will arrive as a 2-LP disc set in gate-fold packaging. In addition to the standard edition, an artist exclusive edition is also now available to pre-order on Japanese Breakfast’s official merch store and various color variants will be exclusive to retailers including Newbury Comics, Light in the Attic and Vinyl Me Please.
 
ABOUT SABLE... Embark on a unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.

Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, Milan Records, XXIM Records and Masterworks Broadway imprints. For email updates and information please follow Sony Soundtracks at the link here:  https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracks.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "QUEENPINS" music by Siddhartha Khosla

Sony Music Masterworks today releases QUEENPINS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by film and television composer, singer-songwriter, and producer SIDDHARTHA KHOSLA (This Is Us, Only Murders in the Building, Looking for Alaska). Available everywhere now, the album features score music written by Khosla for the STXfilms’ latest comedy, starring Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and centers around two best friends who begin an illegal couponing scheme. Also included on the soundtrack is an original vocal track performed by singer-songwriter Steady Holiday entitled “Living Life (Queenpins Mix)” – listen here. Inspired by a true story, Queenpins is in select Cinemark theaters now and will be available to stream on Paramount+ on September 30.

Of the soundtrack, composer SIDDHARTHA KHOSLA says, “It was an absolute joy to work with the brilliant Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly in helping bring their smart and funny vision to life. Working alongside them and editor Kayla Emter was a dream collaboration. Thanks to Jason Markey and the music team at STXfilms for all their support in the process. So proud of my team and our little film."

Siddhartha Khosla is a three-time Emmy®-nominated film and television composer, singer/songwriter, and producer of the critically acclaimed band Goldspot.

Khosla received Emmy® nominations in 2021 and 2019 for “Outstanding Music Composition For a Series” and in 2020 for “Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics” for his original song “Memorized” (shared with Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith) for his work on NBC’s Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning drama series This Is Us, now in its sixth season. Khosla has the distinction of being the first South Asian person to be nominated in the Primetime Emmy® score and song categories.

After playing in a hugely powerful montage to end an episode, “Memorized” skyrocketed to the #1 spot on the Billboard soundtrack song charts and #13 overall. Khosla also co-composed the hit song “We Can Always Come Back to This” for the show, which ranked #12 overall and #1 on the Billboard Blues charts for four consecutive weeks. His original songs “Memorized,” “Invisible Ink,” and “We Can Always Come Back to This” earned Guild of Music Supervisors Award nominations for Best Song/Recording for Television. Khosla’s upcoming projects include Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly’s comedy feature film Queenpins, starring Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste; and Jason Orley’s dramedy film I Want You Back, starring Jenny Slate.

Khosla's television and film credits include Hulu’s comedy/crime series Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez; the critically acclaimed limited series Looking for Alaska; Marvel’s Runaways; the 2019 Netflix hip-hop drama feature Beats, the award-winning indie drama feature The Sounding, from director Catherine Eaton and starring Frankie Faison and Teddy Sears, and the winner of 17 awards including festival grand prizes from Woodstock, Bend, Istanbul, Napa, and Cinequest, and other festivals; and the comedy feature film Fat Camp. Additionally, Khosla composed an original song for the musical film Basmati Blues starring Academy Award® winner Brie Larson and Golden Globe Award® winner Donald Sutherland.

In November 2013, Khosla was invited as the musical guest for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Diwali celebration at the White House, where he delivered an emotional performance of several of his original songs.

He has also been performing his music from This Is Us for audiences worldwide. In 2019, he performed in Los Angeles at the Ford Theatre and at the MOSMA Festival in Málaga, Spain.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS" music by Brian Tyler and John Carey

Sony Music Masterworks today releases ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by composers BRIAN TYLER (F9, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Yellowstone) and JOHN CAREY (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Mummy). Available everywhere now, the album features score music written by Tyler and Carey for the second installment in Columbia Pictures’ psychological thriller series, returning the composing duo to the film franchise after scoring the first Escape Room in 2019. Directed by Adam Robitel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is available exclusively in movie theaters now.

Of the soundtrack, composer BRIAN TYLER says, “Composing the score for Escape Room: Tournament of Champions was an incredible experience and a chance to create both an emotional musical experience as well as a dark and sonically rich soundscape. The score is composed from the perspective of classic thematic writing yet is embodied by industrial electronic music. The contrast of tones between emotional motifs and the stark sonic landscape of pure electronic music was one of the most interesting musical combinations I have ever endeavored to create. I was so pleased to work with the incredibly talented director Adam Robitel on this sequel as well as collaborating with the amazing John Carey. The film was a true joy to work on, and I cannot wait for people to see the film and hear the soundtrack!”

Fans of the original Escape Room will hear a familiar yet updated version of the 2019 film’s main theme, which Tyler and Carey have newly reprised for the sequel, of which Tyler says, “it conveys a fatalistic tone, but this time, the story has a whole new set of circumstances, and the score has an expansion of musical themes and sounds. The contrast of the distant, melancholic piano against the wall of powerful analog synthesizer develops throughout the film, and we feel more and more emotion for the main characters who helplessly fight against that invisible force.” Also included within the 21-track album is a special version of the new theme, which has been remixed by Tyler and frequent collaborator, DJ and producer Kill the Noise for the film’s main title sequence. Of the collaboration, Tyler says, “I was also proud to collaborate once again with Kill the Noise to remix the main theme for the main title sequence. This time the theme gets the drum and bass treatment and will hopefully break some speaker cones.”

ABOUT BRIAN TYLER

Brian Tyler is a multiple BAFTA and Emmy Award® nominee and has been a composer and conductor on over 70 feature films.  Tyler’s scoring credits include Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, James Wan’s Furious 7 and F. Gary Gray’s Fate of the Furious as well as others in the Fast and the Furious franchise, Shane Black’s Iron Man 3, Alan Taylor’s Thor: The Dark World, Jon Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians, for which he was voted to the 2019 Oscar shortlist for Best Original Score, James Vanderbilt’s Truth, which stars Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, Justin Baldoni’s Five Feet Apart, Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me and Jon Chu’s Now You See Me 2, Adam Shankman’s What Men Want, Ready or Not directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Charlie’s Angels directed by Elizabeth Banks, Clouds directed by Justin Baldoni, Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, F9 directed by Justin Lin, and the upcoming Escape Room: Tournament of Champions directed by Adam Robitel which opens on July 16, 2021 and Redeeming Love directed by DJ Caruso. Alongside Brian’s future films, he is in the process of launching his ambitious project Are We Dreaming, a completely immersive audiovisual experience.

Tyler began scoring features shortly after completing his Master’s Degree from Harvard University as well as receiving his Bachelor’s Degree from UCLA. Some of his earlier projects allowed him to collaborate with Bill Paxton (Frailty and The Greatest Game Ever Played) and William Friedkin (The Hunted and Bug). Tyler is a frequent collaborator with director/star Sylvester Stallone, having scored all three of The Expendables films as well as 2007’s Rambo and Rambo: Last Blood.

Tyler’s film work also led to arranging and conducting the logo music for Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios. In addition, he composed the themes for the NFL on ESPN, the nationally televised U.S. Open Championships, and Formula 1. Tyler has composed the music for the television series Hawaii Five-O, Scorpion, Magnum PI and Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone starring Kevin Costner. He has received Emmy nominations for Last Call, Sleepy Hollow and Transformers: Prime.

Tyler is a multi-instrumentalist skilled at playing piano, guitar, drums, bass, cello, world percussion, guitarviol, charango and bouzouki, among others. He also performs electronic music under the moniker Madsonik.

Brian Tyler has conducted symphonic concerts of his movies around the globe and frequently conducts the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and the Hollywood Studio Symphony. His honors include 32 BMI Music Awards, 3 Emmy® nominations, 5 ASCAP Music Awards, and 12 Goldspirit Awards including Composer of the Year. Tyler was also named Film Composer of the Year at the 2014 Cue Awards.

ABOUT JOHN CAREY

John Carey is a composer for film and television with a diverse body of work from documentaries to episodic TV to blockbuster studio films. His recent films include culinary documentary A Taste of Sky, directed by Michael Yuchen Lei, the political documentary Ready for War, directed by Andrew Renzi, and the boxing documentary They Fight, also directed by Andrew Renzi.

Carey has been a part of Brian Tyler's music team as an arranger for many years, lending his talents on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Fast and the Furious franchise, The Mummy, Rambo: Last Blood, Charlie's Angels, and Crazy Rich Asians. He was also an arranger for composer Keith Power for the CBS shows “Hawaii Five-O” and “Macgyver,” spanning 7 seasons of network television.

Carey received his BM in music composition from Capital University and graduated from the world renown Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program from the University of Southern California. In 2016, he was selected as a participant in the prestigious ASCAP film scoring workshop where he worked with and learned from some of the best composers and recording musicians in the film industry. In addition to his background in scoring, he is an electronic music producer and a former metal guitar player.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST (THE ISLE OF SPIRES EP)" music by JORIS DE MAN, THE FLIGHT, OLEKSA LOZOWCHUK and NIELS VAN DER LEEST

Sony Music Masterworks today releases HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST (THE ISLE OF SPIRES EP), an EP of music featured in the forthcoming PlayStation® game.  Available everywhere now, the EP includes music from the highly-anticipated sequel to 2017’s PS4™ release Horizon Zero Dawn.  With songs by JORIS DE MAN, THE FLIGHT, OLEKSA LOZOWCHUK and NIELS VAN DER LEEST, the four-track EP reunites the original team of composers and musicians who developed the tribal soundscape of the game’s post-apocalyptic setting.

Join Aloy as she braves the Forbidden West – a majestic but dangerous frontier that conceals mysterious new threats.  Explore distant lands, fight bigger and more awe-inspiring machines, and encounter astonishing new tribes as you return to the far-future, post-apocalyptic world of Horizon.

The land is dying. Vicious storms and an unstoppable blight ravage the scattered remnants of humanity, while fearsome new machines prowl their borders. Life on Earth is hurtling towards another extinction, and no one knows why.  It's up to Aloy to uncover the secrets behind these threats and restore order and balance to the world. Along the way, she must reunite with old friends, forge alliances with warring new factions and unravel the legacy of the ancient past – all the while trying to stay one step ahead of a seemingly undefeatable new enemy.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "THE LONGEST ROAD ON EARTH" music by Beícoli

Sony Music Masterworks today releases THE LONGEST ROAD ON EARTH (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK), an album of music from the new PC and mobile indie video game.  Available everywhere now, the album includes twenty-four original songs written and performed by game developer & artist Beícoli, marking her first-ever album release. Created by Brainwash Gang and published by Raw Fury, The Longest Road on Earth is available now on PC and mobile.

Of the soundtrack, Beícoli says, ­"The Longest Road on Earth has turned out to be something I needed and didn't even know it. It was a blank slate on which I have learned to use music as a journal. To me it is a long road — One of self-discovery and self-acceptance that I hope to keep walking for the rest of my life."

Be swept away by the haunting and sentimental lyrics of twenty-four original, emotionally charged songs, sung by Beícoli. Walking down The Longest Road on Earth will only take you two hours, and it’s worth every step.

The Longest Road on Earth is a deeply personal and meditative narrative title. Play in the songs of four short stories featuring stripped down mechanics and no words. Each story is up for interpretation – what story lives inside you for each character and the world around them?

Beícoli (Beatriz Ruiz-Castillo) is a Spanish songwriter and video game developer based in Madrid, Spain. She has been creating music on her own and for games for the past five years, but The Longest Road on Earth is her first full album-length endeavor. She aims to create music that connects with others on a deep, emotional level and uses this as a focus across all genres
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "WRATH OF MAN" music by Chris Benstead

Sony Music Masterworks today releases WRATH OF MAN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) by composer CHRIS BENSTEAD.  Available everywhere now, the album features score music written by Benstead for director Guy Ritchie’s latest action thriller starring Jason Statham. The score is the latest collaboration between Benstead and Ritchie, the duo having previously worked together on The Gentleman and Aladdin.  Wrath of Man makes its theatrical debut today from MGM.     

Of the soundtrack, composer CHRIS BENSTEAD says, “The score for Wrath of Man is centered around the cold and mysterious character ‘H’. Super close-mic’d cellos and double basses were used (and abused) to created awkward and jarring stabs as well as angry and unnervingly dark textures. A stoic main ‘hook' is constantly repeated in different guises to help amplify the sense of impending unease and, ultimately, revenge. Sometimes only percussion was needed to create the brutal and exigent action cues. It was an amazing experience to collaborate with the utterly brilliant Guy Ritchie once again."

A mysterious and wild-eyed new cash truck security guard (Jason Statham) surprises his coworkers during a heist in which he unexpectedly unleashes precision skills. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman’s ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.

Chris Benstead is a British film composer, arranger and Academy Award®-winning re-recording mixer. He has worked on several projects with director Guy Ritchie including composing the score for The Gentlemen, starring Matthew McConaughey and Michelle Dockery, and the upcoming action thriller Wrath of Man. He also arranged and composed additional music for Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin alongside legendary songwriter and composer Alan Menken and produced and arranged the songs in the film, working with Will Smith to create re-imagined versions of the classic Disney songs.

Chris composed additional music for Beauty and The Beast, working closely with Alan Menken and director Bill Condon. His arrangements helped contribute to the film’s massive success – becoming the biggest grossing musical of all time.

Chris received Oscar® and BAFTA awards for his work as re-recording mixer on Alfonso Cuaron’s masterpiece Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Chris’ unique skillset allowed him to mix and sculpt the music in an extremely immersive way, pushing the limits of surround sound and exploiting the new ‘Dolby Atmos’ standard.

Chris is a versatile multi-instrumentalist and achieved a First-Class honors in music and sound recording from the University of Surrey. He was also named as Alumni of the Year for his ground-breaking achievement in music mixing on Gravity.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music Masterworks: "BAD TRIP" music by Joseph Shirley and Ludwig Göransson

Sony Music Masterworks announces the March 26 release of BAD TRIP (MUSIC FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) by composer JOSEPH SHIRLEY with additional music by LUDWIG GÖRANSSON.  Available for preorder now, the album features score music from Netflix’s newest hidden-camera comedy starring Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery.  The 18-track album is the first official soundtrack release from composer Joseph Shirley and includes additional music from his longstanding creative partner Ludwig Göransson, the duo having worked together on multiple award-winning titles including Tenet, Black Panther, Creed and The Mandalorian, to name a few.  Making their debut today alongside preorder are lead singles “Bad Trip Suite,” a score track showcasing the album’s distinct mix of hip hop rhythms and more traditional score instrumentation, and “I Saw a Girl Today,” which features showtunes-style vocals from the film’s lead Eric Andre – listen here.  Bad Trip premieres on Netflix on Friday, March 26 – watch the trailer here.

Of the soundtrack, composer JOSEPH SHIRLEY says, "Bad Trip was definitely a trip to say the least.  Working with Kitao Sakurai and Eric André was more like a journey.  We explored a vast number of genres and styles in the course of scoring the film - from traditional Hollywood musicals, to contemporary Hip Hop, to heartfelt buddy moments, and everything in between.  It was a road trip of music in and of itself. We can't overstate how fun, unpredictable, and hilarious the process was to work with Kitao and Eric on this movie, and we hope the audience will have just as much fun as we did making it."

Real pranks. Real People. Real Movie. From one of the guys that brought you Jackass and Bad Grandpa, this hidden camera comedy follows two best friends as they go on a cross-country road trip full of hilarious, inventive pranks, pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem. Bad Trip stars Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin.  Directed by Kitao Sakurai.

ABOUT JOSEPH SHIRLEY

Joseph Shirley is a composer from Jackson MS. Recent composing credits include scores and additional music for Bad Trip, The Open House, The Mandalorian, Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes, Angie Tribeca, and Survivor’s Remorse. Shirley has been an integral part of Ludwig Göransson’s career for the last five years, including arrangement credits for Tenet, and music department credits on Black Panther, Creed I and II, Venom, and Central Intelligence. He also co-wrote and co-produced a single for the Dreamwork’s film, Trolls World Tour, performed by Justin Timberlake and Anderson Paak.

Raised with his three brothers in a musical family, he began studying piano at the age of six. Throughout his younger years and high school, he played in an assortment of bands with his brothers and friends around Mississippi, while continuing to study classical repertoire and compose music for his own school projects and films. Shirley moved to New Orleans to further his music education, earning a bachelor’s degree in music composition from Loyola University. He began writing and playing with jazz, hip hop, rock, folk, and progressive bands as a bandleader and keyboardist during his college years and several years thereafter, touring extensively around the United States. Shirley then attended the prestigious Screen Scoring program at the University of Southern California in 2014.

He now lives in Los Angeles and works on an assortment of film and TV projects, loves beach days and camping with his fiancé, and spending as much time with their dog, Bambi.

ABOUT LUDWIG GÖRANSSON

In a career spanning only 12 years, Ludwig Göransson has amassed an impressive resume in both the recording and motion picture industries, earning an Academy Award®, an Emmy® Award, multiple GRAMMY Awards® and countless other nominations. After working as an assistant to composer Theodore Shapiro, Göransson got his first big break writing music for the NBC television series Community. This led to a friendship and collaboration with Donald Glover, who performs under the stage name Childish Gambino, on several studio albums including Because the Internet and Awaken, My Love. Göransson has been nominated for six GRAMMYs® with Childish Gambino, and won two in 2019 for the Billboard Hot 100 Number One hit song “This Is America,” which became a cultural phenomenon and garnered world-wide acclaim. 

While pursuing his masters degree in film scoring at USC, Göransson met his other longtime collaborator, director Ryan Coogler, when he scored his short film Locks. Over the next nine years, Göransson would score all three of Coogler’s feature films. Much like iconic filmmaking duos Hitchcock and Herrmann or Spielberg and Williams, Coogler’s diverse filmography has allowed Göransson to show his range as a composer, writing understated melodies for Fruitvale Station, hyping up audiences for Creed, and infusing African percussion into his themes for Black Panther.  

Göransson has accumulated success in a variety of other films including the box office smash Venom and Pixar’s Inner Workings. In 2019, Göransson earned multiple awards and nominations for his score for Black Panther including a Golden Globe® nomination, a GRAMMY Award® for Best Score Soundtrack, and an Academy Award® for Best Original Score. He won two GRAMMY Awards® for his song “This is America”, which he co-wrote and co-produced with frequent collaborator Childish Gambino. 

Most recently, Göransson completed the score for Season 2 of The Mandalorian, LucasFilm’s first Star Wars live-action series helmed by director Jon Favreau, streaming exclusively on Disney+.  In September 2020, he won his first Emmy® Award for his work on the series.  Göransson also composed the music for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which premiered late summer 2020.  In addition, he co-wrote and co-produced the songs for DreamWorks’ Trolls World Tour with Justin Timberlake, which exceeded expectations with its history-making digital release in April 2020, racking up nearly $100 million in sales in just three weeks.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music/Masterworks: "YELLOW ROSE" music by Christopher H. Knight

Sony Music Masterworks today releases YELLOW ROSE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK), an album of music featured in the upcoming musical drama from director Diane Paragas.  Available everywhere now, the album features a mix of newly-recorded original tracks as performed in the film by Eva Noblezada, Dale Watson and Lea Salonga as well as score tracks by composer Christopher H. Knight.  The result of a collaborative writing process between the director, country singer Dale Watson and Filipino-American singer and actress Thia Megia, the new original tracks are performed in the film by Watson and lead Eva Noblezada, a breakout star of Broadway’s hit smash Hadestown.  Following the story of a young Filipina teen as she fights to pursue her dreams of becoming a country performer, Yellow Rose makes its theatrical debut Friday, October 9 via Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films.

“Music is truly the heart and soul of Yellow Rose,” says the film’s director DIANE PARAGAS of the soundtrack.  “Even if you’re not a country fan, I know you will love these songs performed by the extraordinary Eva Noblezada, legendary Lea Salonga and Dale Watson.  Dale also contributed his amazing songwriting talents to the film along with myself and Thia Megia.  In addition, we include the haunting score from our composer Christopher H. Knight.  I think the number one question I get asked at every Q&A is if Yellow Rose will get a soundtrack.  I’m proud to finally say that Sony Music is making this dream a reality!”

“I was thrilled when Diane asked me to write the score for her feature film directorial debut,” adds composer CHRISTOPHER H. KNIGHT.  “We worked closely on the tone and texture of the music. She brought me in very early in the process, which was essential as it allowed us to build an emotional thread throughout the film that would work alongside the wonderful songs she had written with Dale Watson. It was also important for the score to have its own voice. With that in mind, in addition to using traditional instrumentation, I created ambient atmospheres by processing Filipino folk instruments in unconventional ways to provide a rich sonic fabric that would support Rose’s inspirational journey.”

Rose, an undocumented Filipina girl, dreams of one day leaving her small Texas town to pursue her country music dreams. Her world is shattered when her mom suddenly gets picked up by immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rose, facing this new reality, is forced to flee the scene, leaving behind the only life she knows, and embarking on a journey of self-discovery as she searches for a new home in the honky tonk world of Austin, Texas.

Christopher H. Knight attended the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT, he studied Electronic and Computer Music with renowned composer and professor Russell Pinkston. It was at this time when he scored his first short films. He has gone on to score a wide range of TV and film projects. Christopher’s opening themes for Masterpiece Classic and Masterpiece Mystery are heard on PBS and Amazon Prime by millions every week. You can also hear his music during NBC’s Sunday Night Football. In 2017, he re-imagined and updated the classic HBO “Feature Presentation” theme, which IndieWire hailed as, “…honestly more epic than most Marvel Superhero themes.” Knight has written the scores to several films including: A Close Enemy [Sony/Monumental Pictures], Six Degrees Could Change the World [NatGeo], Echo Park [Array Films] and Yellow Rose [Sony/Stage 6 Films]. He has also worked with composer Blake Neely writing music for Blindspot [NBC], Arrow [CW], and the hit Netflix series YOU.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music/Masterworks: "THE TURNING"

KRO Records / Sony Music Masterworks today announce the January 24 release of the official soundtrack for THE TURNING (DreamWorks Pictures).  Produced by Los Angeles singer/songwriter Lawrence Rothman and producer Yves Rothman, the soundtrack features a dumbfounding amount of revered artists, including Courtney Love, Mitski, Soccer Mommy, Empress Of, Vagabon, Warpaint, Cherry Glazerr, Kali Uchis, Alice Glass, girl in red, MUNA, The Aubreys (Finn Wolfhard’s new band) and more (full tracklisting below). Directed by Floria Sigismondi (The Runaways, Handmaid’s Tale) and starring Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Davis and Brooklynn Prince, the film will be released in theaters on January 24.

Of the track, Courtney Love says, “I read ‘The Turn of the Screw’ as a kid, so it’s a genuine privilege to have had the opportunity to work with the genius that is Floria Sigismondi and Lawrence Rothman on this soundtrack – especially as I’m alongside so many other fantastic female artists I respect. I’ve long admired her work, particularly The Runaways and the Marilyn Manson videos. Floria and Lawrence had a clear vision on what they wanted to achieve and it was an honor to be invited into their studio and to become a part of it.”

To help create a completely original soundtrack, Lawrence Rothman called in producer Yves Rothman and they went on to approach all their favorite artists and things fell into place. The majority of the soundtrack was written and recorded at Lawrence’s Los Angeles studio, House of Lux.

Lawrence Rothman explains, “We were both inspired by the classic 90’s soundtracks – Romeo and Juliet, Lost Highway, The Crow, the sessions were chaotic and inspired, it was a fever dream for months. Yves and I are beyond ecstatic to have worked with so many of our favorite artists.”  Lawrence too had a strong connection to the short story that inspired the movie, adding, “‘The Turn of the Screw’ was a seminal piece of literature for me when I was a teen, so when Floria Sigismondi approached me to produce all new and original music for her film, curated like the classic 90s soundtracks, it was a dream come true. I had just started my new record label KRO Records with Yves Rothman and Justin Raisen. I already had a compilation project much like the soundtrack in the works with multiple artists, so the timing was serendipitous.

Sony Music Masterworks: "THE IRISHMAN"

Of the soundtrack, director MARTIN SCORSESE says, “For me, music is always essential. When I hear the music, I start seeing the images and the world of the movie starts coming together for me. In the case of this movie, it was “In the Still of the Night” by The Five Satins: as we started developing the script I started to hear the song in my head, and it became a key inspiration.

Because music is so essential for me, Robbie and Randy are each close collaborators. I’ve worked with both of them for many years on many pictures, and there’s only one rule that we follow: there are no rules. At a certain point, I went to a piece of music from a French film of the 50s called Touchez pas au Grisbi, a harmonica theme that felt right. And Robbie built his score from that mood, that instrumentation. He started with the harmonica, and then he added the double bass, percussion, and guitar riffs and that was just the right mood. That was it.

Randy and I discussed so much music for this picture. We always do. It’s never a matter of just finding music from the time period of the story—I always want to go deeper than that. It’s a whole process, an adventure, and Randy’s always up for it.”

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese’s THE IRISHMAN, an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th century. Spanning decades, the film chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and offers a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics.

01. In the Still of the Night – The Five Satins
02. Tuxedo Junction – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
03. I Hear You Knockin’ – Smiley Lewis
04. The Fat Man – Fats Domino
05. El Negro Zumbon – Flo Sandon’s
06. Le Grisbi – Jean Wetzel
07. Delicado – Percy Faith & His Orchestra
08. Have I Sinned – Donnie Elbert
09. Theme for The Irishman – Robbie Robertson
10. Song of the Barefoot Contessa – Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
11. A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation) – Marty Robbins with Ray Conni?
12. Canadian Sunset (Single Version) – Eddie Heywood
13. Honky Tonk, Pt. 1 – Bill Doggett
14. Melancholy Serenade – Jackie Gleason
15. Qué Rico el Mambo – Pérez Prado Orchestra
16. Cry – Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
17. Sleep Walk – Santo & Johnny
18. The Time Is Now – The Golddiggers
19. Al Di La – Jerry Vale featuring The Latin Casino All Stars
20. Pretend You Don’t See Her – The Latin Casino All Stars 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music: "CHARLIE’S ANGELS" Music by Brian Tyler

Sony Music announces the November 8 release of CHARLIE’S ANGELS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE) with music by BRIAN TYLER (The Avengers, Crazy Rich Asians, Iron Man 3).  Available for pre-order now, the album features music from Elizabeth Banks’ Charlie’s Angels. The film makes its theatrical debut on Friday, November 15 via Sony Pictures.  Premiering alongside today’s pre-order is Brian Tyler’s newly-composed theme for the film – listen here.

“It was an absolute pleasure composing the score for Charlie’s Angels for the incredible director Elizabeth Banks,” says composer BRIAN TYLER of the score. “Together we endeavored to create a score that enhanced the mystery, action, fun, and power of the movie while giving a nod to the movie’s 70s roots. I composed new themes for the film that would feel nostalgic yet fresh and also work playing alongside the theme from the original TV series. The sonic elements of the score conjure up a variety of musical styles: symphonic, hip-hop, and 70s groove. I played many instruments on the score myself such as guitar, vintage drums, Rhodes piano, vibes, and electric bass. I then recorded and mixed those elements in a way that would sound like they were sampled off vintage albums, a technique often employed in hip-hop. I also conducted the Hollywood Studio Symphony which provided an epic feel and a deeper emotional context. In addition, I had a blast with two nu-disco songs (‘Euphoria’ and ‘Neon Sky’), produced under my electronic music moniker Madsonik. The movie was an absolute joy thanks to the amazing team lead by our director Elizabeth Banks. I hope everyone enjoys listening to this album as much as we enjoyed making it!”

Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie’s Angels take flight. In Banks’ bold vision, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world’s smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs everywhere. The screenplay is by Elizabeth Banks from a story by Evan Spiliotopoulos and David Auburn. 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music/Masterworks: "THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD: IN FOUR CONTEMPORARY SUITES" BY IMOGEN HEAP

Following its hugely successfully, critically acclaimed digital and CD album release, THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, an album of music from the internationally acclaimed stage production, is available now as a limited edition, 2-LP deluxe vinyl set from Sony Music Masterworks.  Newly pressed on 180-gram vinyl for maximum audio fidelity, the set arrives within a gatefold jacket featuring gold foil artwork and embossed lettering.  Also included in the deluxe vinyl edition is an 8-page, large-format booklet containing production shots and commentary from Imogen Heap and key members of the production’s creative team.

Available everywhere to stream and download, The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was written, composed, performed and recorded by GRAMMY and Ivor Novello Award-winner Imogen Heap. Presented as four contemporary musical suites, each showcasing one of the play’s theatrical acts, the unique new album format from Imogen Heap chronologically features the music heard in the stage production, further reworked to transport listeners on a sonic journey through the world of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

“This album is like nothing I’ve ever attempted before,” says Imogen Heap of The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.  “It’s four suites containing music from each of the four acts of the play.  With over 100 moments of music in the play, the challenge was how to weave them together, and I think it has manifested into a really enjoyable listen, with memories for those who’ve seen the play, musical accompaniment to those with the script of the play or simply just to enjoy the music as a stand-alone album. It is crafted to be listened to in its entirety, taking the listener through different worlds within each suite. I don’t know another album like it. I hope others enjoy listening to it as much as I’ve enjoyed making it.”

Produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions and based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne, directed by John Tiffany with movement by Steven Hoggett, set by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music and arrangements by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, illusions and magic by Jamie Harrison, music supervision and arrangements by Martin Lowe.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now playing at the Palace Theatre in London, where it received its world premiere in July 2016; at the Lyric Theatre in New York, where it opened on Broadway in April 2018; and at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne, where it opened in February. Upcoming productions include the exclusive U.S. West Coast premiere in San Francisco at the Curran later this year; the German premiere, the first foreign language production, at the Mehr! Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg in spring of 2020; and, the Canadian premiere at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto in autumn of 2020.

CONNECT WITH HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

HarryPotterOnStage.com
www.pottermore.com

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music: "MEN IN BLACK™: INTERNATIONAL" music by Danny Elfman and Chris Bacon

Sony Music announces the release of MEN IN BLACK™: INTERNATIONAL (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by DANNY ELFMAN and CHRIS BACON.  One of the most acclaimed and distinctive film composers of his generation, Danny Elfman returns to Men in Black after scoring the franchise’s first three installments.  He is joined by Chris Bacon, who has previously written additional music on Elfman’s scores including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Goosebumps.  Available Friday, June 7, the soundtrack features music from the hugely-anticipated summer film, which makes its theatrical debut via Sony Pictures on Friday, June 14.

Of the soundtrack, composer Danny Elfman says, “I have always loved scoring the Men in Black series.  It allows me to enter a weird quirky unique musical world that only exists in the MIB universe. Revisiting and updating is always a joy. And sharing this chapter with co-composer Chris Bacon was also a great experience. ”

The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe.  In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization. Men in Black: International is directed by F. Gary Gray, and written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, based on the Malibu Comic by Lowell Cunningham. Produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Edward Cheng, Howard Chen, E. Bennett Walsh, Riyoko Tanaka, David Beaubaire and Barry Sonnenfeld. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson, Rafe Spall, Laurent Bourgeois & Larry Bourgeois, with Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson. 

Sony Music: "GHOSTBUSTERS (SCORE)" music by Elmer Bernstein

In honor of the 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters’ 1984 theatrical debut, Sony Music announces a special reissue of “GHOSTBUSTERS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE)” with music by legendary film composer ELMER BERNSTEIN (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Age of Innocence).  Available now to preorder, the anniversary edition arrives in digital formats for the very first time (in both standard and hi resolutions) and on CD Friday, June 7 and on vinyl Friday, July 19.  The collection features music from the iconic blockbuster, newly mixed and remastered from the score’s original multi-tracks, as well as new artwork, commentary from Elmer Bernstein’s son, Peter, and four previously unreleased tracks.

Of the 35th anniversary edition, Peter Bernstein, son of the late Elmer Bernstein, says, “As one of the original orchestrators on Ghostbusters, it has been very satisfying and also very moving to work on this soundtrack release 35 years down the road. It is a great movie with great music and we had a whole lot of fun creating it. I am very pleased to see it released in its original form.”
With a star-studded cast, Ghostbusters follows four men on a mission to save the world.  Fired from university research jobs, Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler set up shop as "Ghostbusters," hiring Zeddemore and, together, ridding Manhattan of bizarre apparitions. But even the spirit exterminators are severely tested when beautiful Dana Barrett and her nerdy neighbor Louis Tully become possessed by demons living in their building.

Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face their supreme challenge at a rooftop demonic shrine. If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!

Sony Music: "THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR" music by Herdís Stefánsdóttir

Sony Music announces the release of THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by Icelandic composer HERDÍS STEFÁNSDÓTTIR.  Available Friday, May 10, the soundtrack features music from the Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film, which will be released nationwide on Friday, May 17.

“Working with Ry on creating the score for The Sun Is Also A Star was a wonderful and smooth process,” says composer Herdís Stefánsdóttir of the soundtrack. “I immediately felt we had a musical connection, which helped create the themes for the film.  I was 7 months pregnant when I started writing the score and that made the experience very special for me. I was extra emotional and focused because of my situation, which I felt helped me overall in the creative process, and was able to write the music quickly and felt inspired by the story. I needed to write music that would evolve and mature with the characters in the film and the growing feeling of love. I mostly used a mix of ukulele, harp, electronics, flutes, strings and piano. The score was lighter in the beginning of the film, but as the drama progresses I brought in deeper sounds and more emotional instruments like the piano, cello and harp.”

In the film, college-bound romantic Daniel Bae (Charles Melton) and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley (Yara Shahidi) meet – and fall for each other – over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City.  Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push.  But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?  With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together.  A modern-day story about finding love against all odds, The Sun Is Also a Star explores whether our lives are determined by fate or the random events of the universe.

ABOUT HERDÍS STEFÁNSDÓTTIR... 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 a M.A. degree in film scoring from New York University in 2017. Since graduation, she has scored two American feature films and a few short films. 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 East of My Youth, her electro-pop duet, in 2015. East of My Youth’s music has been described as “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.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music: "BRIGHTBURN" music by Timothy Williams

Sony Music announces the release of BRIGHTBURN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by multi-award winning composer TIMOTHY WILLIAMS (Wild Horses, Debug, Walking with the Enemy).  Available Friday, May 10, the soundtrack features music from the James Gunn and Kenneth Huang-produced film, which makes its theatrical debut in the United States on Friday, May 24. 

Of the soundtrack, composer TIMOTHY WILLIAMS says, “Being able to merge two genres which have never been combined before, superhero and horror, was an amazing experience.  I was thankful for a close collaborative relationship with the director Dave Yarovesky.  We worked on the idea of a main theme at the beginning that would be simple and reflect the emotional investment of hope in the story.  You hear this in a three note piano solo theme.  As Brandon's power increases, we begin to feel the weight and power of a large orchestra which then bends and distorts with Brandon's descent into evil.  The low strings and low brass mutate the theme and processed percussion pumps up the tension.  Because Brandon is this kid from another world, I got to develop some unique sounds using a bespoke library for the ROLI which bends and pitches sound as well.  Overall it was a dream come true to create this sound for a new genre film.”
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to humankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? In this horrific take on the classic superhero trope, a couple (Elizabeth Banks and David Denman) adopts a baby who came from the stars. While they attempt to raise the boy (Jackson A. Dunn) to use his powers for good, an evil begins to grow inside that he unleashes.

ABOUT TIMOTHY WILLIAMS... Timothy Williams is a multi-award winning composer, orchestrator and conductor for film and television, whose awards include the MPSE Golden Reel Award and Hollywood Music in Media Award for best score.

Highlights include scoring Robert Duvall's, Wild Horses (Robert Duvall, Josh Hartnett and James Franco), John Moore's I.T. which starred Pierce Brosnan, I'm Not Ashamed, Diablo (starring Scott Eastwood and Walton Goggins), which won the jury award at the San Diego Film Festival and Walking With The Enemy, staring Ben Kingsley. Recent works include Secret of Pirate Island for Sony, Butterfly Circus, Beyond All Boundaries and Get Out!

Tim's scores have been released on multiple soundtrack albums. Varese Sarabande released the score for Get Out!, Lakeshore records released the soundtracks for I'm Not Ashamed, I.T., Wild Horses, Debug, Walking With The Enemy and Red Sky.

Diablo was listed in the best scores of 2016. Red Sky was nominated for "best soundtrack" at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Debug was listed among the best of 2015. Walking With The Enemy was listed among the best scores of 2014 and made the Oscars-eligible score list.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music: "POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU" music by Henry Jackman

Sony Music announces the release of POKÉMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by award-winning composer HENRY JACKMAN, whose scoring credits include Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: First Class, Monsters vs. Aliens and more.  Available Friday, May 3, the soundtrack features music from the exciting first-ever live-action Pokémon adventure, with Ryan Reynolds leading an all-star cast as the unique crime-solving Detective Pikachu. From Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Entertainment, and The Pokémon Company, POKÉMON Detective Pikachu makes its theatrical debut Friday, May 10.   

Of the soundtrack, composer HENRY JACKMAN says: “Writing the music for POKÉMON Detective Pikachu was immense fun.  The movie itself was a unique invitation to create a new musical world representing all the wonderful and colorful characters of the Pokémon  universe.  I really enjoyed using many different sonic colors so, if you listen carefully, you can hear everything from the full symphony orchestra to analog vintage synths.  I was also very happy to be working again with Rob Letterman, who even tried to get his beloved 808 Drum Machine into the score, until we found it was fatally damaged.  To have been selected to write music for such a well-loved and precious franchise is a great honor, and I greatly hope my best efforts contribute positively to the Pokémon experience.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures present, in association with Toho Co., Ltd. POKÉMON Detective Pikachu, a Legendary Pictures production and a Rob Letterman film.  The film will be distributed outside of Japan and China by Warner Bros. Pictures, in Japan by Toho Co., Ltd. and by Legendary East in China.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music: "THE HUSTLE" music by Anne Dudley

Sony Music announces the release of THE HUSTLE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by composer ANNE DUDLEY (The Full Monty, American History X, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again).  The soundtrack will be available everywhere both digitally and physically Friday, May 3. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures will release THE HUSTLE starring Academy Award® winner Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson through the United Artists Releasing banner in theaters nationwide on Friday, May 10. 

“THE HUSTLE is based on one of my favorite films Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and, in a nod to this, my score takes as its starting point the music of The Hot Club of France,” says composer ANNE DUDLEY of the soundtrack.  “I’ve always found this sound both irrepressibly happy and somehow a bit louche. The driving energy of the guitar rhythms coupled with some sophisticated harmonies represent the contrasting characters of Penny (Rebel Wilson) and Josephine (Anne Hathaway), without the score having to be overbearingly ‘comic.’

It was a particular delight to work with some of my favorite musicians – especially John Parricelli on guitar, Chris Garrick on violin and Eddie Hession on accordion. It was also a pleasure to work with Chris Addison, the director who was full of good cheer, and musically incredibly literate.”

In the hilarious new comedy THE HUSTLE, Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the dirty rotten men who have wronged them.

THE HUSTLE is directed by Emmy Award®-winner Chris Addison (Veep) from a screenplay by Jac Schaeffer. Cave 76’s Roger Birnbaum and Rebel Wilson’s CAMP SUGAR produced the film. Ilona Herzberg and Alison Owen serve as executive producers.

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Sony Music: "TOLKIEN" music by Thomas Newman

Sony Music announces the release of TOLKIEN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by GRAMMY®, EMMY® and BAFTA® Award-winning composer THOMAS NEWMAN, whose scoring credits include American Beauty, Six Feet Under, Skyfall, Finding Nemo and more.  Available Friday, May 3, the soundtrack features music from Fox Searchlight’s Tolkien, which makes its theatrical debut Friday, May 10.

Of the soundtrack, composer THOMAS NEWMAN says: “Because J.R.R. Tolkien is embedded in popular culture, and because his work and outlook have been the subjects of much interpretation, I wanted to write music for Tolkien that would honor his ethos, his individualism, without being slavish to it. The musical vocabulary draws from a wide swath of instrumental and vocal colors, from winds with string accompaniment to solo voice in hushed pianissimo. There is Swedish kantélé, mandolin and monochord intersecting bell rhythms and piano-derived ambiences. The object is to give musical identity to the nascent feelings of the young storyteller from Birmingham, only just beginning to stretch his wings. And because much of the story is seen through the prism of his time spent in the trenches of World War I, there is that parallel experience of epic conflict that deepens my feeling for his language and, I hope, lets sound, noise, and melody rise up and sing.”

Directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, Fox Searchlight’s Tolkien explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels. The film stars Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien with Lily Collins as his future wife and muse Edith. The film also stars Colm Meaney, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Derek Jacobi, Harry Gilby, Adam Bregman, Albie Marber, Ty Tennant, Laura Donnelly, Genevieve O’Reilly and Pam Ferris. Tolkien is produced by Peter Chernin, p.g.a., Jenno Topping, p.g.a., David Ready, p.g.a., and Kris Thykier  

Jeremy [Six Strings]