Amazon Content Services has released a soundtrack album for the Amazon Studios original series Hand of God. The album features the songs from the show by Holly Marilyn Solem, as well as a track by Fantastic Negrito. Also included are three cuts from the series’ original score composed by Marc Streitenfeld (Robin Hood, Prometheus, Body of Lies, The Grey, American Gangster). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. Hand of God is created by Ben Watkins and stars Ron Perlman, Dana Delany, Garret Dillahunt, Andre Royo, Alona Tal, Julian Morris, Elizabeth McLaughlin and Hunter Parrish.
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Marvel’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Soundtrack Details
The full details of the soundtrack album for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have been revealed. The album features selections form the show’s original music composed by Emmy Award winner Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Da Vinci’s Demons, Outlander). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 4 by Hollywood Records and will be available to download here. As previously reported, a physical version is set to come out on October 2, 2015 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The digital release download link will be added to this article tomorrow. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen and starring Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Luke Mitchell and Henry Simmons is based on the Marvel Comics about the organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) and will return for a third season on September 29, 2015 on ABC.
ESKMO to Score Showtime’s ‘Billions’
ESKMO has signed on to score the upcoming Showtime original series Billions. The drama is created by Brian Koppelman & David Levien (Ocean’s Thirteen, Runaway Jury, Rounders) & Andrew Ross Sorkin (Too Big To Fail) and stars Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile and Condola Rashad. The show revolves around politics and power in the world of Wall Street and New York investment firms and follows a hard-driving U.S. attorney who clashes with a hedge fund titan. Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless, Insurgent) is directing the pilot episode and is also executive producing the project with Koppelman, Levien and Sorkin.
BBC’s ‘From Darkness’ to Feature Music by Edmund Butt
Edmund Butt is currently scoring the upcoming BBC original series From Darkness. The psychological crime drama is created by Katie Baxendale (Sugar Rush) and stars Anne Marie-Duff as Claire Church, a former police officer who left the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in the mid-90s after the impact of violence became too overwhelming for her to continue. Johnny Harris, Richard Rankin, Luke Newberry, Caroline Lee Johnson, Lyndsey Marshall, Adrian Rawlings, Ben Batt and Leanne Best are co-starring. Dominic Leclerc (Call The Midwife, The Syndicate) is directing all four episodes of the show’s first season.
Martin Phipps Scoring ‘War and Peace’ Mini-Series
Martin Phipps is composing the music for the upcoming mini-series War and Peace. The epic drama is directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders, The Woman in Black: Angel of Death) and stars Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton, Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Stephen Rea, Greta Scacchi, Jack Lowden, Tom Burke and Aisling Loftus. Andrew Davies (House of Cards, Bridget Jones’s Diaries) has written the scripts for the 6-parter based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel. Davies is also executive producing the project with Faith Penhale & Bethan Jones (Sherlock) for BBC Cymru Wales, Harvey Weinstein & Robert Walak for the Weinstein Company and Simon Vaughan (Ripper Street, Parade’s End) for Lookout Point.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (August 30, 2015)
Premiering on Friday, September 4, is the Amazon Studios original series Hand of God created by Ben Watkins (Burn Notice), executive produced by Marc Forster (World War Z) and starring Ron Perlman, Dana Delany, Garret Dillahunt, Andre Royo, Alona Tal, Julian Morris, Elizabeth McLaughlin and Hunter Parrish. The show’s original music is composed by Marc Streitenfeld (Robin Hood, Prometheus, American Gangster, The Grey, Poltergeist). Hand of God follows a hard-living judge who suffers a mental breakdown and launches a quest to seek revenge against the rapist who tore his family apart. The full first season of the drama will be available to stream on Amazon.
CBS’ ‘Code Black’ to Feature Music by Clinton Shorter
Clinton Shorter is composing the music for the upcoming CBS medical drama Code Black. The show is created by Michael Seitzman (North Country, Here On Earth) and stars Marcia Gay Harden, Bonnie Somerville, Raza Jaffrey, Luis Guzmán, Melanie Chandra, Harry M. Ford, Benjamin Hollingsworth and William Allen Young. The series is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary about an understaffed emergency room team at Los Angeles County Hospital.
‘House of Cards’ Season 3 Soundtrack Details
The details of the third soundtrack album for the Netflix original series House of Cards have been announced. The album features selections from the show’s original music of the third season composed by Jeff Beal (Rome, Monk, Carnivale, Appaloosa, Ugly Betty) who has earned a total of four Emmy Award nominations for his work on the project to date. The soundtrack will be released digitally on September 11, 2015 and physically as a 2-CD set on October 2 by Varese Sarabande. Visit Amazon to pre-order the CDs. The label has previously released soundtracks for the first and second season. House of Cards is developed by Beau Willimon, executive produced by David Fincher and stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
Laura Karpman to Score WGN America’s ‘Underground’
Laura Karpman has been tapped to score the upcoming WGN America original series Underground. The show is created and written by Misha Green & Joe Pokaski and stars Christopher Meloni, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Jessica de Gouw, Alano Miller, Adina Porter, Amirah Vann, Marc Blucas, Mykelti Williamson, Reed Diamond and Johnny Ray Gill. The drama follows a group of slaves who aim to travel 600 miles to escape from a Georgia plantation. Green and Pokaski are also executive producing the project with Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend), Tory Tunnell & Joby Harold (Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur), as well as Anthony Hemingway (The Wire, Treme) who is also directing the first two episodes.
BBC America’s ‘London Spy’ to Feature Music by David Holmes & Keefus Ciancia
David Holmes and Keefus Ciancia have composed the music for the upcoming BBC America mini-series London Spy. The show is created by author Tom Rob Smith (Child 44) and stars Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Edward Holcroft. The five-parter centers around a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess. Jakob Verbruggen (The Fall, The Bridge) is directing all five episodes.