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Guillaume Roussel is the new score demolitionist for “The Expend4bles”
For a franchise that’s all about old school attitude, nothing sings for the aging merc body electric like being pumped up with trip-hop beats, gnarly guitar and raging synths, all backed with strong orchestral muscle. The tune might be different as the Expendables bring on board a new member from France named Guillaume Roussel, but…
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Will Bates plays the stock market with “Dumb Money”
As a hip composer who’s often been musically taking down The Man, you could easily imagine composer Will Bates screaming “HOLD!” from his synth keyboard as he joins the social network legions of a cat-loving market upstart not determined to cash in on his GameStop stock just yet. Pulsing with a fun, in-your-face cutting-edge attitude…
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Bill Conti’s BOYS ON THE RUN finally break free on Music Box Records
The best BILL CONTI score you’ve never heard from a great movie you’re never seen, the music from BOYS ON THE RUN finally breaks loose after two decades to thrill fans with one of the Oscar winning composer’s most emotionally lyrical and adventurously rustic scores. It’s an odyssey for director Pol Cruchten’s deserving spin on…
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Nainita Desai goes to the hauntingly beautiful extremes of “The Deepest Breath”
Starting to come near to two hundred musical dives in all manner of musical genres from drama (“Crossfire”) to video games (“Immortality”) and television series (“The Man Who Brought Cricket”), Nainita Desai is no better than when musically documenting people pushing themselves to extremes to touch the heavens or recesses of the earth. Segueing through…
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Dascha Dauenhauer strikingly plays Israel’s First Lady at the height of crisis in “Golda”
Born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukee before finding her leadership destiny as Israel’s female force of stone-hard nature, the striking figure of Golda Meir has been on screen in the avenging angel personages of Colleen Dewhurst and Lynn Cohen in “Sword of Gideon” and “Munich,” Ingrid Bergman on the miniseries “A Woman Called Golda”…
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The Puppet Master Axis Trilogy unleashed by Intrada Records!
Barbenheimer doesn’t have anything on Andre Toulon’s Axis-busting doll weapons as Richard Band’s triple threats hit in one glorious package from Intrada Records, with my liner notes talking to the composer about impactfully pulling the soundtrack strings against evil! It’s playtime now HERE!
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“Strays” composer Dara Taylor swears on an uproariously R-rated dog comedy
Cue the soaring strings, whimsical voices and playful percussion and you’ve got a veritable frisbee throw to start an incredible journey that our furry, family-friendly hero is setting off on with the help of his four-footed pals. That’s just the start of the very ironic, yet ultimately actually heartfelt musical dog trick that previous…
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The Heroic Trio of WARRIOR talks about kicking ass for Season 3 on a new Film Music Live!
As the third season of Max’s WARRIOR kicks ass with its conclusion, watch a new episode of my videocast show Film Music Live as the mighty Tong of co-composers H. SCOTT SALINAS and REZA SAFINA (Birth of the Dragon) join with show runner JONATHAN TROPPER (Banshee) to talk about putting an energetically modern step into…
