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Elmer Bernstein’s RAT RACE finally wins at La La Land Records!
I’m thrilled to help get La La Lands back off to the release races as I stow my liner notes for Elmer Bernstein’s now-heard score for RAT RACE into the train station locker! As perhaps the wackiest comedy music the great composer wrote in his second score for his Airplane! co-director Jerry Zucker on his…
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“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” on La La Land Records!
You’ll definitely get stuffed with a wealth of musical riches in La La Land’s debut release of all three scores as such for the cult favorite WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE. I dig into the musical saga by way of Iowa, Sweden and England in my liner notes for the lovely, unplugged work of Björn Isfält…
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Looking back on “Arcade” and a start at Full Moon Entertainment
I’m thrilled to join Cinema Degeneration’s Albert Pyun Appreciation Month at around the 2:11 mark as I talk about putting in quarters to create the release version of the prolific and much-missed filmmaker’s “Arcade” (its Alan Howarth score now out from Dragon’s Domain Records) as I also reminisce about my start with Charles Band’s DTV…
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Nitin Sawhney answers the scoring question of “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”
When it comes to modern rom-coms, tales of culturally-crossed, destined-to-be soulmates are tales as old as time. Whether it be “Mississippi Masala,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” or “The Wedding Banquet,” sons and daughters has defied their hopelessly old school but well-meaning parents and their motherland cultural baggage, often to find happiness with people from…
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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…


