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Brazil’s Marcelo Zarvos bites into the culturally rich music of Chicano success for “Flamin’ Hot”
For an industry created by immigrants, Hollywood has often liked nothing better than an inspirational rise to the top story of an ethnic community’s underdog beating The Man’s system at its own game. And in the case of the true-life story of “Flamin’ Hot,” it’s how Chicano Frito Lay janitor Richard Montañez saved a floundering…
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Danny Elfman’s unleashed Nightbreed to go berserk on Intrada Records!
The Midian’s out of the Intrada bag, properly announced on the day of the ultimate monster kid composer’s birthday. As a beyond huge fan of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed and Danny’s berserker score, this has been a grail project over a decade long in the making for me to do the liners for as a follow…
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The Great Season 3 Videocast with Nathan Barr!
Huzzah for a new Film Music Live videocast as NATHAN BARR talks about returning as the new court composer of THE GREAT, finishing the saga of the oppressed Faerie Folk on CARNIVAL ROW, channeling fear with Eli Roth, his obsession with the mighty Wurlitzer organ and telling us what chilling strains to expect whenever a…
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Ariel Marx hears a unique hiding place that holds “A Small Light”
The tale of the world’s most famous Holland hiding place, and its metaphor of a larger extermination has been told no small amount of times on the big and small screen, perhaps no more famously than in George Stevens’ 1959 adaptation with its memorably symphonic Oscar-nominated score by Alfred Newman. But where the key in…
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All about Vermithrax Pejorative!
Listen in as I join the villagers of Urland to pay lottery tribute to my favorite fire-breathing fantasy of all on Robots Took My Podcast HERE!
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Jeff Cardoni breaks in with the “White House Plumbers”
Whether it be an all-knowing young geek, a friend-zoned sap, a bunch of sarcastic tech bros and two oldster Hollywood mensches, leftie rocker-turned-composer Jeff Cardoni knows how play with the band for an eccentric company of men. But though he’s scored dumb as a board to smart as a supercomputer guys, Cardoni’s encounter with the…
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Elmer Bernstein’s RAT RACE finally wins at La La Land Records!
I’m thrilled to help get La La Lands back off to the release races as I stow my liner notes for Elmer Bernstein’s now-heard score for RAT RACE into the train station locker! As perhaps the wackiest comedy music the great composer wrote in his second score for his Airplane! co-director Jerry Zucker on his…
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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…
