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Tim Williams shoots and scores with “Gringa’s” grrl power
Born in England and ensconced in Los Angeles, composer / orchestrator Tim Williams has certainly heard his inner feminine spirit scarily roar with she-demons, satanic metalheads and a deranged, cleaver-wielding farm girl with a lush Hollywood orchestra in her head. Yet Williams is just as capable of hearing tenderness, no more so than in turning…
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Marco Beltrami Film Music Live on Renfield
“Scream’s” Marco Beltrami talks about going for the humorous jugular with Dracula’s hapless familiar
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Internal Affairs now erotically sleuths on LP!
“Internal Affairs” was a landmark noir score and film, creating a sinister, erotic ambience and alternative score as “Stormy Monday’s” Mike Figgis, teamed with “Young Guns” composers Anthony Marianelli and Brian Banks for a film noir fusion of voice, ethnic rhythm and mesmerizing electronics that took the musical genre into a new alternative realm. Doing…
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Alex Heffes plays the gangster comedy hits for the “Mafia Mamma”
From chronicling the PLO’s Olympic attack with “One Day in September” to a perilous escape from Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland” to the trauma of slavery in the miniseries reboot of “Roots” and be-gone’ing Satan in “The Rite,” it can’t be said that composer Alex Heffes’ prolific career hasn’t been a barrel…
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Lyle Workman once again uses musical “Paint” by the not-so usual numbers
Few composers rock with the stylistic eccentricity of Lyle Workman. With Wrecking Crew worthy guitar chops that saw him play alongside the likes of Todd Rundgren, Beck, Frank Black and fellow composer Chad Fischer’s band Lazlo Bane, Workman would translate his sense of rhythm to the instrumental pictures accompanying Jon Favreau’s 2001 feature debut mob…
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Paul Leonard-Morgan Is On The Track Of The Boston Strangler
Movie and television’s fascination with true-like serial killers continue to reach a horrifying fever pitch. Yet sometimes lost in the race to confront the worst of humanity, we lose a feeling for the victims, as well as the damage done to those pursuing pure evil. Though the case might be unsolved as filmmaker Matt Ruskin’s…
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Christophe Beck Film Music Live on Shazam and Quantumania
CHRISTOPHE BECK yells SHAZAM! on a new Film Music Live videocast, then talks about his rousingly heroic journeys into the comic book scoring universe with his newest superhero soundtracks Fury of the Gods and Quantumania!
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Emily Greene Creates The Haunted High Of ‘All The World Is Sleeping’
Given a not-so post covid plagued planet that’s reeling from despair, it seems that anguish is now more in the air than ever, particularly among youths turning to drugs as a way out of their anguish. But for already downtrodden Latinas women in the southwest, it’s just a passing of a curse from generation…
