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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…
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Chris Bacon: Running From 65’s Dinos and Humoring The Gothic Wit of Wednesday
If there’s a modern-day composer who’s often strode with the giants while leaving his own sizeable musical footprint, then it would be Chris Bacon. From James Newton Howard to Danny Elfman and Alan Menken, Bacon has seamlessly merged his exciting orchestral talents into such epic beasts as “King Kong,” “Dumbo” and “Disenchanted.” Flying solo with…
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Interview With Nima Fakhrara
(Republished from Film Music Magazine; originally posted on September 23, 2022.) From a haggard Bob Odenkirk taking out a platoon of Russian goons in “Nobody” to Dame Helen Mirren wielding a machine gun in “Red” or plowing a car through England in the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, action films particularly delight in taking retirement-nearing…
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Interview With Karl Frid
(Republished from Film Music Magazine; originally posted on May 12, 2022). Porn is pretty much about going by the numbers, from the plumber who never gets the sink fixed to the Swedish ingenue out to conquer the carnal world to the cheesy strains of jazz-funk and grinding Casio synthesizers. But rarely has this sleazy world…
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Interview With Siddhartha Khosla
(Republished from Film Music Magazine; originally posted on July 8, 2022.) Everyone loves a mystery. The podcast problem for the unlikely Arconia apartment three amigos of ex TV cop Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), had-it Broadway producer Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) and snarky, decidedly younger Mabel (Selena Gomez) is that they just can’t stay out of…
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Interview With Ken Lampl
(Republished from Film Music Magazine, originally posted September 29, 2022) If social media and the selfie desperation for recognition has made monsters of us all, then “Sissy” is the Norman Bates for a generation scarily obsessed with being golden gods for their thumbs up followers. For while she’s all smiley faces while dispensing advice to…
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Interview With Son Lux
(Republished from Film Music Magazine; originally posted on March 25, 2022.) It’s easy to see why the multiverse is all the rage when it comes to the multiplex. From sci-fi to superheroes (and even a romantic comedy as far back as “Sliding Doors”), there’s no storyline that upends the narrative like one where death is…
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Interview With Joseph Shirley
(Republished from Film Music Magazine; originally posted on February 9, 2022.) For 42 years, the sound of live-action “Star Wars” was the sweeping, symphonic language of John Williams, old school music for a long time ago in a melodic galaxy far, far away. It was a template impressively followed by Michael Giacchino and John Powell…
