John Hardy Music (Hidden, A Dark Place, Steel Country, Hinterland, Hegus) has released a soundtrack album for the BBC Wales original comedy drama Tree on a Hill (Pren ar y Bryn). The album features selections of the composer collective’s original music from the show and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the title theme (Cavalcade of Chaos) after the jump. Tree on a Hill is created by Ed Thomas and stars Rhodri Meilir, Nia Roberts, Richard Harrington, Richard Lynch, Hannah Daniel, Suzanne Packer, Rhodri Evan, William Thomas, Steffan Cennydd and Jacob Ifan. The 6-parter is set in the Welsh hinterland and revolves around an ordinary couple who find themselves at the center of a mystery and on the wrong side of the law. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Tree on a Hill’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC Wales, John Hardy Music, Pren ar y Bryn, score, Soundtrack, Tree on a Hill
Sebastián Lelio’s ‘The Wave’ to Feature Music by Matthew Herbert, Ana Tijoux, Camila Moreno, Javiera Parra & Others
Posted: April 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: La Ola, Matthew Herbert, Sebastian Lelio, The Wave
Matthew Herbert (The Beast Must Die, The Responder,The Cave, Port Authority, Temple) has teamed up with seventeen female Chilean musicians, including Ana Tijoux, Camila Moreno & Javiera Parra to create the original composition for the upcoming musical drama The Wave (La Ola). The film is directed by Sebastián Lelio and stars Daniela López, Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo and Paulina Cortés. The movie is inspired by the wave of “feminist May” mass protests that swept Chile in the spring of 2018 and follows a music student who gets involved in the growing movement on her university campus and revisits her own experiences of mistreatment. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Meet the Leroys’ (‘Nous, les Leroy’) Soundtrack Released
Posted: April 10, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Alexis Rault, Florent Bernard, Nous les Leroy, score, Soundtrack, Theo Bernard
Nolita Cinema has released a soundtrack album for the French comedy Meet the Leroys (Nous, les Leroy). The album features the film’s original score composed by Alexis Rault (The Swallows of Kabul, Being 17, Ladies, Memories, Golden Years) and Theo Bernard. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to Bernard’s title track after the jump. Available separately as a digital single is the original song L’histoire est belle co-written by Bernard and performed by Maxence. Meet the Leroys is written and directed by Florent Bernard and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, José Garcia, Lily Aubry and Hadrien Heaulmé. The movie follows a man facing divorce after years of neglecting his family facing divorce as he tries to rekindle his wife’s affections by taking her and their teens on a road trip down memory lane. Read the rest of this entry »
The Newton Brothers Scoring Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Life of Chuck’
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Mike Flanagan, The Life of Chuck, The Newton Brothers
The Newton Brothers (Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Forever Purge, Life of Crime, The Walking Dead: World Beyond) have recently completed their score for the upcoming sci-fi drama The Life of Chuck. The film is written and directed by Mike Flanagan and stars Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jacob Tremblay. The movie is based on the novella of the same title by Stephen King and examines the existence of the title character in reverse, beginning with his death at age 39 from a brain tumor and ending with his childhood in a haunted house. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Clement Virgo’s ‘Brother’ Released
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brother, Clement Virgo, score, Soundtrack, Todor Kobakov
Todor Kobakov (Born to Be Blue, The Samaritan, Backstabbing for Beginners, Tricksters, Sweetness in the Belly, Most Dangerous Game) has released a soundtrack album for the Canadian drama Brother. The album features the composer’s original score from the film composed by and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to Kobakov’s first track (Better View) after the jump. Brother is written and directed by Clement Virgo and stars Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lovell Adams-Gray and Kiana Madeira. The movie is based on David Chariandy’s novel of the same name and follows two brothers facing questions of masculinity, family, race and identity during the pulsing beats of Toronto’s early hip hop scene. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Shift’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Brock Heasley, Dan Haseltine, Matthew S. Nelson, score, Soundtrack, The Shift
Sony Classical has released a soundtrack album for the faith-based sci-fi thriller The Shift. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dan Haseltine & Matthew S. Nelson (The Chosen). The soundtrack is now available to stream on all major digital music services, including Amazon. Also listen to the composers’ main titles track below. The Shift is written and directed by Brock Heasley and stars Kristoffer Polaha, Neal McDonough, Sean Astin, Jason Marsden, John Billingsley, Rose Reid, Paras Patel and John Walker Ross. The movie tells the story of a man who meets a nefarious adversary known as The Benefactor and – after refusing his offer of wealth and power – must escape an alternate totalitarian reality. Read the rest of this entry »
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring James Watkins’ ‘Speak No Evil’ Remake
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Danny Bensi, James Watkins, Saunder Jurriaans, Speak No Evil
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Enemy, The White Tiger, The Outsider, The Staircase, The Devil All the Time, Boy Erased, Tokyo Vice) have provided the original score for the upcoming horror thriller Speak No Evil. The film is written and directed by James Watkins (The Woman in Black, McMafia, Eden Lake) and stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy and Alix West Lefler. The movie is based on Christian & Mads Tafdrup’s 2022 Danish feature of the same title (scored by Sune “Køter” Kølster) about a family that gets invited to a dream holiday at an idyllic country house that warps into a snarled psychological nightmare. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Boarders’ Released
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, Boarders, Soundtrack
All3Media has released a soundtrack album for the BBC comedy drama Boarders. The album features the songs from the show by artists such as Joseph Burnett, Sam Virgo, Ronn Subrahmanya Rohan Hulikunta, Maisy New, Sydney Yack, Christopher Pottinger & others. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Boarders is created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor and stars Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Sekou Diaby, Myles Kamwendo and Aruna Jalloh. The coming-of-age dramedy follows the lives of five talented black inner-city teenagers as they are navigating their way through an alien world – the British public school system. Read the rest of this entry »
Herdís Stefánsdóttir Scoring M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap’
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Herdís Stefánsdóttir, M. Night Shyamalan, Trap
Composer Herdís Stefánsdóttir (Y: The Last Man, The Essex Serpent, The Sun Is Also a Star, We’re Here) is reteaming with director M. Night Shyamalan on the upcoming psychological thriller Trap. The film is written and directed by Shyalaman (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and stars Josh Hartnett and Saleka Shyamalan. The movie revolves around a father and teen daughter who attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. Shyamalan is also producing the project with Marc Bienstock (Split, Glass) and Ashwin Rajan (Old, Servant). Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for SkyShowtime’s ‘Veronika’ to Be Released
Posted: April 9, 2024 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Mikkel Hess, score, SkyShowtime, Soundtrack, Veronika
This Is Care Of will release a soundtrack album for the SkyShowtime original series Veronika. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Mikkel Hess (When Animals Dream, Exit Plan). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Wednesday, April 10 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Veronika is created by Katja Juras & Anna Lindblom and stars Alexandra Rapaport, Tobias Santelmann, Arvin Kananian, Olle Sarri, Per Graffman, Isac Calmroth, Sarah Rhodin, Wilma Lidén and Eddie Eriksson Dominguez. The 8-part crime thriller directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby follows the titular police officer who struggles with her complicated family life and a secret pill addiction and finds herself in a murder investigation that goes deeper than anyone in her town would like to believe when she learns about the murder of two teenage girls. Read the rest of this entry »
