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DANIEL HART continues his INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Composer Daniel Hart (photograph by Emily Ulmer) From sheeted specters to a big green dragon and even Peter Pan and Captain Hook, Daniel Hart has had many unique musical conversations with supernatural characters young and old when not applying his innovative touch to scoring the real world. Now the TV tapestry of AMC’s adaptation…
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GRAHAM REYOLDS makes a killing with the HIT MAN on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new episode of my composer videocast Film Music Live as Richard Linklater’s number one composer with an eccentric bullet GRAHAM REYNOLDS talks about a collaboration that’s included A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Bernie that now makes a critical killing with Netflix’s HIT MAN. It’s a talk that goes into the Austin-based composer’s eclectic…
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ANDREW LOCKINGTON mecha suits up to score ATLAS
(Composer Andrew Lockington – Photo by Farrah Aviva) Canadian-born composer Andrew Lockington has taken more than a few fantastical journeys among over fifty soundtracks. He’s visited post-fallout underground cities, the hiply updated worlds of Jules Verne and time tripped among his often-epic genre scoring, all while getting down to earth in the dramatically gritty universe…
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ANGELO BADALAMENTI’s Lawnmower Man rides again with THE STRAIGHT STORY!
It’s been a long, wonderfully circular road for my peripheral involvement with THE STRAIGHT STORY. It began when I interviewed its wonderful star Richard Farnsworth for the dearly missed Venice Magazine upon the film’s release. Then I’d befriend composer Angelo Badalamenti for said publication when he drank cappuccino while scoring Mulholland Drive, an occasion on…
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When Killer Whales attack on vinyl with ENNIO MORRICONE’s ORCA!
Chum the blood-red vinyl waters for ENNIO MORRICONE’s ORCA on vinyl that debuts Varese Sarabande Records’ new Reel Cult LP label, with my liner notes taking a deep dive into this alternately melodic and savage score of just animal vengeance from The Maestro of White Dog and The Thing HERE!
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Rock out to first person metal scoring with CLINT MANSELL’s expanded DOOM!
Load up your BFG, and unleash rocking metal hell on martian mutants with Varese Sarabande Records’ two-CD special edition of Clint Mansell’s DOOM, with my liner notes featuring a new interview with slimy space marine Richard Brake on this thrashing exercise in first person scoring from the composer of Requiem for a Dream and Black…
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Climb into the chilling musical waters of ALAN SILVESTRI’s expanded WHAT LIES BENEATH!
Go into the musically chilling bathtub and retrieve the expanded special edition of Alan Silvestri’s WHAT LIES BENEATH, new from Varese Sarabande Records with my liner notes featuring new interviews with story originator Sarah Kernochan and SHIELD agent to be screenwriter Clark Gregg on this suspenseful, Bernard Herrmann-styled tribute to filmmaker Robert Zemeckis’ ghostly thriller…
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JOHN PAESANO rules the KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new episode of my composer interview videocast Film Music Live as JOHN PAESANO (Daredevil, The Maze Runner, Detroit Become Human) extensively talks about his deep dive into The Jerry Goldsmith Zone to launch himself on his epic musical exploration through the KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, all while looking at his…
