Category: TV Scoring Assignments

Weekly TV Music Roundup (March 15, 2020)

Premiering on Wednesday, March 18, is the Hulu limited series Little Fires Everwhere created by Liz Tigelaar based on Celeste Ng’s novel of the same title and starring Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jade Pettyjohn, Jordan Elsass, Gavin Lewis, Megan Stott, Lexi Underwood and Huang Lu. The show’s original score is composed by Mark Isham (Crash, Once Upon a Time, A River Runs Through It, The Accountant, Miracle) & Florence + the Machine’s Isabella Summers. Check out our previous article to learn more about the drama and check back on this page within the next few days for more information about a soundtrack release.

Also premiering on Wednesday is the Freeform original series Motherland: Fort Salem created by Eliot Laurence and starring Taylor Hickson, Ashley Nicole Williams, Lyne Renee and Jessica Sutton, Brandon Roberts (Underwater, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, TURN: Washington’s Spies, The Twilight Zone, Little Evil) is composing the show’s original music. Visit the official show website for more information about the drama, which follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment at Fort Salem, and which will air every Wednesday night on Freeform.

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Larry Goldings Scoring Netflix’s ‘Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker’

Larry Goldings is the composer of the new Netflix original limited series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker. The show is created by Nicole Jefferson Asher (Love Beats Rhymes) and stars Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Blair Underwood, Garrett Morris, Kevin Carroll and Bill Bellamy. The drama is inspired by the book On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles and tells the true story of an African American washerwoman who rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire.

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‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Soundtrack Album Released

Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records has released a new soundtrack album for the Amazon original series The Expanse. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fourth season composed by Clinton Shorter (District 9, 2 Guns, Contraband, Pompeii, Colony, Code Black). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. The label has previously released two soundtrack albums featuring the composer’s music from Season 2 & 3, while Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack featuring music from the first season. The Expanse is created by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby based on James S.A. Corey’s novels and stars Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashlo, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Frankie Adams.

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‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ – The Final Season (Episodes 1-4) Soundtrack Released

Walt Disney Records has released the first full soundtrack album for the final season of Lucasfilm’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first four episodes from Season 7 composed by Kevin Kiner (Star Wars Rebels, Narcos: Mexico, Doom Patrol, CSI: Miami, Titans, Making a Murderer).  The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon Music, where you can also listen to audio samples. The label has previously released a soundtrack album featuring selections of Kiner’s score from the first six seasons, as well as his Bad Batch Theme from the current season. Two more soundtrack featuring more music from the final season are scheduled to come out on April 10 and May 4.

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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Locke & Key’ to Be Released

Maisie Music Publishing will release the first soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Locke & Key. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first season composed by Torin Borrowdale (Searching, Run). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, March 13 and will be available to purchase on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Locke & Key is developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill & Aron Eli Coleite based on the comic book series by Joe Hill and stars Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, Sherri Saum, Griffin Gluck, Laysla De Oliveira, Petrice Jones and Thomas Mitchell Barnet. The series centers on three siblings who – after their dad’s murder – move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers – and secrets.

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Gustavo Santaolalla to Score HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ TV Series

Video Game creative director Neil Druckmann announced on Twitter that Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, 21 Grams, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Book of Life) is attached to compose the music for the upcoming HBO original series The Last of Us. The show based the PlayStation video game of the same title developed by Naughty Dog, which takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed and follows a hardened survivor who is hired to smuggle a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, The Hangover Part II & III) is writing the TV show and will also executive producing the Sony Pictures Television production with Druckmann, Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme) and Naughty Dog president of game development Evan Wells.

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‘On My Block’ Season 3 Soundtrack Released

BMG has released has released a new soundtrack for the Netflix original series On My Block. The 3-track single features the original songs from the show’s third season composed by the show’s composer Kovás by performed by Rosé, Ainsley Riches and Father Goose . The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Listen to all songs after the jump. The label has previously released the song Bottle Rocket by Kovas feat. Domo Genesis & Amber Ojeda from the first season of the drama. On My Block is created by Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez & Jeremy Haft and stars Sierra Capri, Jason Genao, Brett Gray, Diego Tinoco and Jessica Marie Garcia.

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Original Song ‘Lost Star’ from HBO’s ‘The Outsider’ Released

Decca Classics has released the original song Lost Star from the final episode of the HBO limited series The Outsider. The track is written by the show’s composers Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Boy Erased, The Gift, Enemy, Martha Marcy May Marlene) and features vocals by Jurriaans. The song is now available to stream/download on Amazon. Also listen to the full track after the jump. The Outsider is developed by Richard Price based on Stephen King’s novel of the same title and stars Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Jason Bateman, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, Yul Vázquez, Jeremy Bobb and Marc Menchaca.

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Soundtrack Album for Amazon’s ‘Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer’ Released

Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Amazon docu-series Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer. The album features the show’s original music composed by Ariel Marx (The Tale, To Dust, The Devil Has a Name, 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer produced and directed by Trish Wood reframes serial killer Ted Bundy’s crimes from a female perspective – uncovering the disturbing way in which his pathological hatred of women collided with the culture wars and feminist movement of the 1970s, culminating in one of the most infamous true-crime sagas of our time.

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Atli Örvarsson Scoring Apple TV+’s ‘Defending Jacob’

Atli Örvarsson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Vantage Point, The Edge of Seventeen, The Eagle) is scoring the upcoming Apple TV+ original limited series Defending Jacob. The show is created by Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Wolverine, Unstoppable) and stars Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Cherry Jones, Pablo Schreiber, Betty Gabriel and Sakina Jaffrey. The 8-part thriller is based on the 2012 New York Times best-selling novel of the same title by William Landay revolves around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town, and follows an assistant district attorney who finds himself torn between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.

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