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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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Picard Season 3 Videocast with Stephen Barton and Frederik Wiedmann!
Engage with a new Film Music Live videocast as PICARD SEASON 3 composers STEPHEN BARTON (Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) and FREDERIK WIEDMANN (Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) talk about beaming board a re-energized Enterprise 1701-D to weave their spectacular scoring with the likes of Jerry Golsmith, James Horner and Ron Jones for the acclaimed series…
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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…
