Jason Hill (Mindhunter, The Confession Killer, City on Fire, Magazine Dreams, Extrapolations, Voir, Love, Death & Robots) is the new composer of the Prime Video horror anthology series Them. Season 2, entitled Them: The Scare, is created by Little Marvin and stars Deborah Ayorinde, Pam Grier, Luke James, Jeremy Bobb, Joshua J. Williams, Wayne Knight, Charles Brice, Carlito Olivero and Iman Shumpert. The 8-parter is set in 1991 and follows an LAPD Homicide Detective who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken.
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‘Swift Street’ Soundtrack Album Details
Maria Alfonsine (Wakefield) and Damian de Boos-Smith (Solo) will release a soundtrack album for the SBS original drama Swift Street. The album features selections of the composers’ original score from the show and will be released digitally tomorrow, April 24 and will be available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes and most other major digital music services. Swift Street is created by Tig Terera and stars Tanzyn Crawford, Cliff Curtis, Keiynan Lonsdale, Bernie Van Tiel, Eliza Matengu and Alfred Chuol. The crime drama follows a twentysomething woman who has to join forces with her hustler father in order to save him from debt and the dangerous criminals who are out to get him.
FX’s ‘The Veil’ to Feature Music by Max Richter & Jon Opstad
Max Richter (The Leftovers, Ad Astra, Hostiles, Mary Queen of Scots, Waltz with Bashir, Miss Sloane, Spaceman) and Jon Opstad (Black Mirror: White Bear & White Christmas, Bodies, The Woman in White, Safe House, We Hunt Together) have composed the original music for the new FX limited series The Veil. The show is created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke, Eastern Promises) and stars Elisabeth Moss, Yumna Marwan, Dali Benssalah and Josh Charles. The 6-part spy thriller centers on the relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.
‘See You in Another Life’ Soundtrack Album Released
Hollywood Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish Disney+/Hulu limited series See You in Another Life (Nos vemos en otra vida). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Olivier Arson (The Candidate, The Beasts, Madre, Riot Police, Piggy, The Zone) & Abel Hernández. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to the composers’ first track (1993-2014) below. See You in Another Life is created by Jorge & Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo and stars Roberto Gutiérrez, Quim Ávila and Pol López as Emilio Trashorras. The 6-part crime drama adaptation of the book by Manuel Jabois based on the interview he conducted with Gabriel Montoya Vidal (“Baby”) about his link to the biggest jihadist attack committed on European soil on March 11, 2004.
BEKA’s Original Song ‘Forever’ from Apple TV+’s ‘Trying’ Season 4 Released
LAB Records has released the first song from the fourth season of the Apple TV+ original series Trying. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is Forever co-written (with Tobie Tripp) and performed by BEKA. Also listen to the full track after the jump. A soundtrack album featuring more songs by BEKA from Season 4 is expected to be released in a couple of weeks. Trying is created by Andy Wolton and stars Esther Smith, Rafe Spall, Scarlett Rayner, Sian Brooke, Darren Boyd and Cooper Turner. The new season takes place six years after events of Season 3 and follows Nikki & Jason who are now experienced adopters who have built a lovely little nuclear family.
‘Brigands: The Quest for Gold’ (‘Briganti’) Soundtrack Album Released
Netflix Music has released a soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Brigands: The Quest for Gold (Briganti). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Michele Braga (Dogman, Rose Island, Freaks Out, Strangeness, Shadows, Blessed Madness). Also included is the song Brigante se more performed by Raiz. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to Braga’s score title track and the song after the jump. Brigands: The Quest for Gold is created by GRAMS and stars Michela De Rossi, Ivana Lotito, Matilda Lutz, Marlon Joubert, Pietro Micci, Orlando Cinque and Leon Faun. The period drama is set in the 19th century, when the southern lands of Italy are bandit territory, and follows a woman who escapes her wealthy but sad life to lead a risky treasure hunt.
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Red Eye’ to Be Released
Madison Gate Records will release a soundtrack album for the ITV drama Red Eye. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Ian Arber (The Capture, Medici, The Chelsea Detective, My Name Is Lenny, The One, War of the Worlds). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, April 22 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Listen to the composer’s main title track below. Red Eye is written by Peter A Dowling, directed by Kieron Hawkes and stars Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Lesley Sharp and Jemma Moore. The 6-part thriller follows three women who are thrown into the same life threatening conspiracy when a British doctor is arrested for murder on a red eye flight from London to Beijing.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 21, 2024)
Premiering tonight is the HBO original documentary series The Jinx – Part Two directed by Andrew Jarecki. The show’s original music is composed by Mondo Boys (She Dies Tomorrow, Phoenix Forgotten, Fatman, The Girlfriend Experience, Red Right Hand, Silk Road). The follow-up to 2015’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst continue the filmmaker’s investigation for the next eight years, uncovering hidden material, Durst’s prison calls, and interviews with witnesses who had not come forward earlier. The 6-parter will air Sundays on HBO and will also be available to stream on Max.
Premiering tomorrow, April 22, is the Disneynature documentary Tiger directed by Mark Linfield, co-directed by Vanessa Berlowitz & Rob Sullivan and narrated by Priyanka Chopra. Nitin Sawhney (Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, The Namesake, Breathe, What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Traitors, A Girl from Mogadishu) has composed the film’s original music. Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous news article for more information about the movie, which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
Alex Heffes Scoring Hulu’s & Disney+’s ‘Shardlake’
Composer Alex Heffes (The Last King of Scotland, Queen of Katwe, The Rite, Touching the Void, State of Play) is reuniting with director Justin Chadwick on the new British Hulu/Disney+ original series Shardlake. The show is written by Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom, Baghdad Central) based on the popular novels by C.J. Sansom, directed by Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Tulip Fever) and stars Arthur Hughes, Sean Bean, Anthony Boyle, Babou Ceesay, Paul Kaye, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Matthew Steer, Peter Firth, Brian Vernel, David Pearse, Irfan Shamji, Miles Barrow, Mike Noble and Kimberley Nixon. The 4-part murder mystery is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries and follows the title character whose sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when he gets instructed to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery.
Tobe Nwigwe feat. Coast Contra’s Original Song ‘If I Catch You’ from Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full’ Released
Netflix Music has released the original song If I Catch You from the new Netflix limited series A Man in Full. The track co-written (with Nic Humes) and performed by Tobe Nwigwe feat. Coast Contra is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the song below. A full soundtrack album featuring Craig DeLeon’s original score from the show is expected to be released in the coming weeks. A Man in Full is developed by David E. Kelley based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe and stars Jeff Daniels, Diane Lane, Tom Pelphrey, Lucy Liu, William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen, Sarah Jones, Chanté Adams and Jon Michael Hill.