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MORGAN KIBBY and DAVID KLOTZ collect THE SHARDS’ 80’s vibes that cut and spellbind for Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’ Hulu adaptation
Everything is note-perfect when it comes to Ryan Murphy’s FX / Hulu adaptation of Bret Easton Elis’ 2023 circa 1981 novel “The Shards.” It’s a synergy of brands made in twisted ironic heaven for the prolific output of the mega producer and the meta poster boy of the era’s jaded Beverly Hills affluence – swimming…
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Liner noting the black comedy symphonic crazy of Robert Folk’s YOU’RE DEAD!
I take a shot with my liner notes for Quartet Records’ release of YOU’RE DEAD, a criminally underseen (and not seen in America at all) black comedy British bank siege movie featuring what might be the best Robert Folk score you haven’t heard. And you’ll certainly be blown away by its blasting symphonic depth that…
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DAN ROMER rides the wilderness of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
Dan Romer is scoring’s child whisperer, a composer who gets the dreams, yearning and discovery with a captivating sense of style. In his breakthrough score with 2012’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Romer imagined a wild child in a Zydeco-spiced wonderland of edge dwellers, then journeyed to the harsh, soul-suppressed rhythms of “Beast of No…
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JOSEPH LO DUCA and BRUCE CAMPBELL talk about spreading offbeat ashes for ERNIE & EMMA on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as composer JOSEPH LO DUCA (Stuart Fails to Save the Universe) and actor-writer-director BRUCE CAMPBELL (Army of Darkness) talk about a change of pace road trip together in their 45 year collaboration that began with the terror of Evil Dead and now accompanies the emotional ash-spreading of the…
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SPONGEBOB teams with TIMECOP for Varese Sarabande’s new special edition soundtracks!
The Sponge and The Split Legged Dynamo hit today on Varese Sarabande Records with deluxe, expanded editions of John Debney’s SPONGEBOB: SPONGE OUT OF WATER and Mark Isham’s TIMECOP. One score is deliriously screwball, and the other a delightfully percussive punch to the solar plexus, with my respective liner notes featuring new interviews with Debney,…
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BRETON VIVIAN rides the range of DUTTON RANCH on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as composer BRETON VIVIAN talks about riding the Taylor Sheridan range alongside Brian Tyler from YELLOWSTONE to 1883, 1923 and now the current day spinoffs of MARSHALLS and DUTTON RANCH alongside a solo stay with the ladies of THE MADISON. It’s an insightful look at helping to create…
