Category: Film Music Albums

Soundtrack Album for Turkan Derya’s Netflix Film ‘Grudge’ (‘Kin’) Released

LU Records has released a soundtrack album for the Turkish Netflix original film Grudge (Kin). The album features the movie’s original music composed by Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç (Draupadi Unleashed, Butterflies, Ivy) & Can Saka (Overnight Republic, La Belle Indifference). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio clips. Grudge is directed by Turkan Derya and stars Yılmaz Erdoğan, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu, Rüzgar Aksoy, Duygu Sarışın, Yosi Mizrahi, Elif Gizem Aykul and Enes Külahçı. The thriller follows a police chief who becomes embroiled in a fatal incident and uncovers a grudge-fueled plot that threatens his associates.

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‘Ascension’ Soundtrack Released

Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Ascension. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dan Deacon (Twixt, Rat Film, Well Groomed, All Light, Everywhere). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Ascension directed by Jessica Kingdon explores the pursuit of wealth and the paradox of progress in modern China, and examines what living the so-called “Chinese Dream” looks like today. The movie, which recently was nominated for six Critics Choice Documentary Awards and is on the IDA short-list for Best Documentary, portrays capitalism in China across the levels of its operation, from the crudest mine to the most rarefied forms of leisure.

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Soundtrack Album for Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Announced

Hollywood Records has announced the official soundtrack album Steven Spielberg’s new film adaptation of West Side Story. The album features the songs from the movie originally written for the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein and with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The record is produced by David Newman who arranged and adapted Bernstein’s original score for the film, Jeanine Tesori who supervised the cast on vocals and music supervisor Matt Sullivan who serves as executive music producer. Gustavo Dudamel conducted the New York Philharmonic during the first recording sessions in 2019, with additional recording by the Los Angeles Philharmonic done the following year. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 3 (in two version, including a Dolby Atmos Music edition) and physically next Friday, December 10. Click here to stream/download the album and visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version, which features liner notes by John Williams who served as the project’s score consultant. A vinyl edition is set to come out in early 2022.

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‘All Light, Everywhere’ Soundtrack to Be Released

Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the documentary All Light, Everywhere. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dan Deacon (Twixt, Ascension, Rat Film, Well Groomed, Strawberry Mansion). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 29 and will be available to stream/download here. All Light, Everywhere is directed by Theo Anthony and explores the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. The movie interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens as surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life.

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‘Nora’ Soundtrack Album Released

MovieScore Media has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish drama Nora. The album features the film’s original music composed by Paula Olaz (Crónica de una tormenta) & Pascal Gaigne (The Giant, The Endless Trench, The Olive Tree, Remember Me). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Nora is written and directed by Lara Izagirre and stars Ane Pikaza, Hector Alterio, Ramon Barea and Itziar Ituno. The movie follows a 30-year-old woman who inherits her grandfather’s old van after his death and decides to take a road trip along the Basque coast to deliver the man’s remains in the south of France, where her grandmother is buried.

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Soundtrack Album for Netflix Documentary ‘Procession’ Released

A soundtrack album has been released for the Netflix original documentary Procession. The album features the film’s original score composed by Keegan DeWitt (Hearts Beat Loud, A Teacher, I’ll See You in My Dreams, Gemini, The Hero, Divorce, All the Bright Places) & Dabney Morris (Broken Diamonds, Almost Love). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon (and any other major digital music services), where you can also check out audio samples. Procession is directed by Robert Greene and follows six midwestern men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys and come together to direct a drama therapy-inspired experiment designed to collectively work through their trauma.

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’14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’ Soundtrack Released

Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible. The album features the film’s original music composed by Nainita Desai (For Sama, The Tower, The Reason I Jump, American Murder: The Family Next Door, Enslaved, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Enemy Within, Telling Lies). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is directed by Torquil Jones  and follows fearless Nepali mountaineer Nimsdai Purja as he embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in seven months. Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Free Solo, The Rescue) are executive producing the Noah Media Group and Little Monster Films production.

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Beth Hart’s ‘Angels from the Realms of Glory’ from Netflix’s ‘A Castle for Christmas’ Released

Mascot Records has released the new version of the traditional Christmas carol Angels from the Realms of Glory from the Netflix original film A Castle for Christmas. The song produced by the movie’s composer Jeff Rona (White Squall, Chicago Hope, Claws, Exit Wounds) & Rune Westberg and performed by Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Beth Hart is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Check out the official lyric video below. A Castle for Christmas is directed by Mary Lambert and stars Brooke Shields, Cary Elwes, Lee Ross, Tina Gray, Andi Osho, Eilidh Loan, Vanessa Grasse, Stephen Oswald and Desiree Birch.

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Remastered and Expanded ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ & ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Soundtracks Announced

La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1971 musical comedy Fiddler on the Roof directed by Norman Jewison and starring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Paul Mann and Molly Picon. The album features the film’s music adapted and conducted by John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Schindler’s List, Jaws, Home Alone) who received his first Academy Award for his work on the project. The 3-CD set, which is limited to 5,000 copies, includes the remastered original soundtrack recording program on the first disc, alternate versions on the second disc and early “playback” versions of the songs, as well as selections of Williams’ underscore and other musical material released for the first time on the third disc. The 50th Anniversary Edition will be available to purchase on the label’s official website on Tuesday, November 30. Visit La-La Land’s Facebook page for the full track list and for more information about the release.

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‘The Summit of the Gods’ Soundtrack Released

22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the animated feature The Summit of the Gods (Le sommet des dieux). The album features the film’s original music composed by Amine Bouhafa (Timbuktu, The Man Who Sold His Skin, Beauty and the Dogs, Gagarine, A Son). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and to check out audio samples. The Summit of the Gods is directed by Patrick Imbert and features the voices of Lazare Herson-Macarel, Éric Herson-Macarel, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura and Kylian Rehlinger. The movie centers on a photojournalist’s obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest that leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

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