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Plaza Mayor Company has released a soundtrack album for the French drama My Sole Desire (À mon seul désir). The album features the film’s original score composed by Pierre Desprats (Olga, The Wild Boys, Rouge, Perfect Nanny, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future). Also included are the movie’s original songs by Rebeka […]

Dragon’s Domain Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1981 mini-series The Manions of America created by Agnes Nixon, directed by Charles S. Dubin & Joseph Sargent and starring Pierce Brosnan, Kate Mulgrew, Kathleen Beller, David Soul, Peter Gilmore, Steve Forrest, Nicholas Hammond, Linda Purl, Simon MacCorkindale, Simon Rouse, Barbara Parkins and […]

Capitol Records has released the first original song from the Paramount+ original series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is New Cool (featured in the first episode of the musical comedy) written by the show’s executive music producer Justin Tranter, Brittany Campbell, Eren Cannata & […]

Hollywood Records & Marvel Music have announced the details of the soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The album features seventeen songs by artists including Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Earth, Wind and Fire, The Flaming Lips, Florence + The Machine, Heart, The The, Beastie Boys, Alice Cooper, Redbone & others. The […]

Dominik Scherrer (The Missing, The Tourist, Primeval, Ripper Street, The Serpent, The Widow, Baptiste) has been hired to score the upcoming British Paramount+ original series No Escape. The show is based on Lucy Clarke’s best-selling novel of the same name and stars Abigail Lawrie, Rhianne Barreto, Jay Ryan, Sean Keenan, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Narayan David Hecter, Elmo […]

Platoon has released a soundtrack EP for the Apple TV+ animated series Eva the Owlet. The 6-track EP features the original songs from the show’s first season written, produced and performed by Fitz (aka Michael Fitzpatrick) of the indie pop band Fitz and the Tantrums. Visit Apple Music/iTunes and most other major digital music services […]

Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) (Midsommar, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, Returnal, Snowpiercer, Triple 9, Paper Girls, Seven Seconds) has been tapped to score the upcoming superhero movie Blue Beetle. The film is directed by Angel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings) and stars star Xolo Maridueñ, Adriana Barraza, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, Susan Sarandon, […]

Shogun Music has released the fourth soundtrack album for the BBC natural history series Wild Isles. The album features the original music from the show’s fourth episode (Freshwater) composed by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner George Fenton (Dangerous Liaisons, The Blue Planet, Groundhog Day, Gandhi, Anna and the King, Hitch, Ever After). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and […]

Premiering in the U.S. today is the Norwegian limited series War Sailor, a new version of last year’s feature of the same title, written and directed by Gunnar Vikene and starring Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen and Ine Marie Wilmann. The show’s original music is composed by Volker Bertelmann (All Quiet on the Western Front, Lion, Hotel […]

Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952 – 2023)

Posted: April 2, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music News
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Ryuichi Sakamoto has passed away this past Tuesday, March 28, at age 71. The Japanese composer has written dozens of scores for a wide range of international films since the early 1980s. He won an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for his music for Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1987 feature The Last Emperor (shared with […]