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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…
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Lyle Workman once again uses musical “Paint” by the not-so usual numbers
Few composers rock with the stylistic eccentricity of Lyle Workman. With Wrecking Crew worthy guitar chops that saw him play alongside the likes of Todd Rundgren, Beck, Frank Black and fellow composer Chad Fischer’s band Lazlo Bane, Workman would translate his sense of rhythm to the instrumental pictures accompanying Jon Favreau’s 2001 feature debut mob…
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Paul Leonard-Morgan Is On The Track Of The Boston Strangler
Movie and television’s fascination with true-like serial killers continue to reach a horrifying fever pitch. Yet sometimes lost in the race to confront the worst of humanity, we lose a feeling for the victims, as well as the damage done to those pursuing pure evil. Though the case might be unsolved as filmmaker Matt Ruskin’s…
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Christophe Beck Film Music Live on Shazam and Quantumania
CHRISTOPHE BECK yells SHAZAM! on a new Film Music Live videocast, then talks about his rousingly heroic journeys into the comic book scoring universe with his newest superhero soundtracks Fury of the Gods and Quantumania!
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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…
