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SIMON FRANGLEN plunges into AVATAR FIRE AND ASH on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Take a deep dive into the musical world of the blockbuster AVATAR FIRE AND ASH as composer SIMON FRANGLEN talks about a scoring exploration unlike any other on a new Film Music Live videocast. Watch as Franglen reflects on a collaboration with James Horner that’s now led to his own adventure as a thematic way…
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Looking at the first BOUND ties for Don Davis and The Wachowskis
I know where the musical money is in the apartment when it comes to BOUND, the Wachowskis’ classic sapphic noir thriller featuring their first collaboration with composer Don Davis. Read my liner notes on La La Land Records, featuring new interviews with Davis and Oscar winning editor Zach S. Staenberg (The Matrix) on crafting a…
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Thunder and Lightning strikes when SCOTT BOMAR scores and executive music produces the iconic Neil Diamond SONG SUNG blues
“Impersonators” and “tribute acts” have mostly been on the stage of condescension from major Hollywood films, and mostly relegated to Elvises at that. But the arrival of “Song Sung Blue” promises to truly shake up that perception, as well as likely introducing a whole new generation to the magic that is the music, songwriting and…
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Revealing the music of the classically sensual EMMANUELLE films in SAGA EROTICA!
I take an “Audio Erotica” look at the sensual music of Sylvia Kristel’s first three Emmanuelle films by Pierre Bachelet, Francis Lai and Serge Gainsbourg, along with Gianni Ferrio’s groovy Italian precursor Io, Emmanuelle in the orgasmically extra-packed SAGA EROTICA box set (which also contains the stand alone soundtracks for Io, Emmanuelle 2, and Goodbye…
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JOHN POWELL talks about flying his Dragon down The Yellow Brick Road for a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as Oscar nominee JOHN POWELL (Migration, Solo, Face/Off) talks about reimagining Oz over the course of two WICKED trips down the Yellow Brick Road and turning his classic animation to flesh and blood for a new flight with HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON HERE. It’s the kind of…
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MIKEL HURWITZ hears the battle for the SOUL OF A NATION
MIKEL HURWITZ hears the battle for the SOUL OF A NATION Where nations understandably remember a Day of Infamy, most vile and violent attacks have a long path towards their sneaking catastrophe, no more recently so than Hamas’ October 7th onslaught of Israel. But as the documentary “Soul of a Nation” soberingly proves, the wind…
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“FRANKENSTEIN” leads THE BEST FILM SCORES OF 2025
THE BEST FILM SCORES OF 2025 CLICK on the soundtrack title purchase the album ANEMONE (Bobby Krlic / Back Lot Music) The family-splintering aftermath of “The Troubles” get a surreal telling from the father-son duo of writer-director star Ronan Day-Lewis and dad / writer / co-star Daniel Day Lewis, whose blazing performance for “In the…
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LAURENT BOUZEREAU documents MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS
While we live in a geek culture where boutique titles run over with extra features documenting every nook and cranny about the art of filmmaking, it’s almost impossible to think back to an analogue time where nascent VHS, DVD and Laserdisc markets were as bare bones as an unlucky shark chaser off of Amity Island.…
