Lakeshore Records has released a soundtrack album for the Spanish Prime Video original series Los Farad. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Vicente Ortiz Gimeno (The Tribe). Also included is the song Para Papa performed by Tanya Farad (portrayed by Amparo Piñero). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Listen to Gimeono’s opening titles track and Para Papa below. Los Farad is created by Mariano Barroso & Alejandro Hernández and stars Miguel Herrán, Susana Abaitua and Pedro Casablanc. The 8-part thriller is set in the 1980s and centers on a boy who dreams of opening up a gym and ends up getting mixed with the fascinating world of the Costa del Sol, its jetsetting lifestyle, eccentricities, and geopolitics. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Los Farad’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: December 15, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Los Farad, score, Soundtrack, Vicente Ortiz Gimeno
‘Carol & The End of the World’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Carol & The End of The World, Joe Wong, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release a soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated series Carol & The End of the World. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Joe Wong (Russian Doll, Master of None,To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Midnight Gospel, Krapoolis Will Trent, Lucky Hank). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Carol & The End of the World is created by Dan Guterman and features the voices of Martha Kelly, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Mel Rodriguez, Michael Chernus, Lawrence Pressman and Beth Grant. The animated comedy revolves around a woman who is struggling to embrace end-times chaos while searching for meaning in her last months on Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Oppenheimer: Live in Concert’ Experience Announced
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music EventsTags: Christopher Nolan, Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Universal Pictures and Syncopy today announced Oppenheimer: Live in Concert, a live-to-film concert experience featuring a 53-piece orchestra under the direction of the film’s Academy Award-winning composer Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, The Mandalorian, Tenet, Creed, Turning Red), conducted by Anthony Parnther. The event will take place on Wednesday, January 10, 2024, at Royce Hall, on the Westwood campus of UCLA in Los Angeles and will include a special introduction by Oppenheimer writer/director/producer Christopher Nolan. Tickets are now available now at roycehall.org. Back Lot Music & Mondo have released the drama’s official soundtrack album featuring Göransson’s score this past summer. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Color Purple’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Blitz Bazawule, Soundtrack, The Color Purple
The full details of the soundtrack album for The Color Purple have been revealed. The album features the songs from film, including new version of tracks originally written by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis & Stephen Bray for the 2015 stage musical of the same title, as well as the original songs Keep It Movin’ co-written (with Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney & Morten Ristorp) and performed by Halle (with Phylicia Pearl Mpasi) and the end credits song Superpower written and produced by The-Dream and performed by Fantasia. An “extended” version of the soundtrack also features numerous songs inspired by the movie by artists such as Alicia Keys, Usher, Mary J. Blige, H.E.R., Megan Thee Stallion, Jennifer Hudson & others. The soundtracks will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15 by WaterTower Music and gamma. Click here to stream/download the 18-track regular edition and click here for the 37-track full version. A vinyl edition is set to be released next March and is now available for pre-order on Amazon and a CD version will be available to order here within the next few days. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Shetland’ Seasons 5-8 to Be Released
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: BBC, BritBox, Danny Saul, John Lunn, score, Shetland, Soundtrack
Dubois Records will release a new soundtrack album for the BBC drama Shetland. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s fifth, sixth, seventh and eight season composed by Emmy Award winner John Lunn (Downton Abbey, The Last Kingdom, The White Queen, Belgravia, The White Princess, Grantchester) and Danny Saul (The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15. The streaming/download link will be added to this page soon. Silva Screen Records has previously released an album featuring Lunn’s music from the first seasons back in 2018. Shetland is based on Ann Cleeves’ novels and stars Ashley Jensen, Douglas Henshall,Alison O’Donnell, Lewis Howden, Steven Robertson, Anne Kidd, Stewart Porter, Erin Armstrong and Mark Bonnar. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Reacher’ Season 2 Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Amazon, Reacher, score, Soundtrack, Tony Morales
Paramount Music will release a new soundtrack album for the Prime Video original series Reacher. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s second season composed by Emmy Award nominee Tony Morales (FUBAR, Scorpion, Elena of Avalor, The Fugitive, Bloodline, The Bag Man, In Your Eyes, Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 15 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. The label has previously released an album featuring the composer’s score from Season 1 last year. Reacher is developed by Nick Santora based on Bad Luck and Trouble, the 11th book in Lee Child’s best-selling series and stars Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Serinda Swan, Shaun Sipos, Ferdinand Kingsley, Domenick Lombardozzi and Robert Patrick. Read the rest of this entry »
Lorne Balfe Scoring Mark Molloy’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Beverly Hills Cop 4, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Lorne Balfe, Mark Molloy, Netflix
Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, His Dark Materials, Black Widow, The Wheel of Time, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) has been tapped to score the upcoming Netflix original film Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley. The movie is directed by Mark Molloy and stars Eddie Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judge Reinhold, Taylour Paige, Paul Reiser, John Ashton, Kevin Bacon and Bronson Pinchot. The fourth installment of the action comedy series follows Foley’s criminal defense attorney daughter who pulls her dad into a new case and teams up with a new partner to solve the crime. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds’ Soundtrack Released
Posted: December 14, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Benoît Chieux, Pablo Pico, score, Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, Sirocco et le Royaume des Courants d'Air, Soundtrack
22D Music has released a soundtrack album for the French/Belgian animated feature Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (Sirocco et le Royaume des Courants d’Air). The album features the film’s original music composed by Pablo Pico (Adama, Marona’s Fantastic Tale, Saving Sally). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list. Also listen to two tracks from the composer’s score below. Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds is co-written and directed by Benoît Chieux and follows two sisters who discover a secret passage to the world of their favorite book and – after being transformed into cats and separated from each other – have to find their way back home. Read the rest of this entry »
Segun Akinola Scoring BBC’s ‘Murder Is Easy’
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC, Murder Is Easy, Segun Akinola
Segun Akinola (Doctor Who, The Last Tree, 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, Stephen) has recently scored the new BBC drama Murder Is Easy. The 2-parter is written by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre based on Agatha Christie’s classic novel and stars David Jonsson, Penelope Wilton, Morfydd Clark, Tom Riley, Douglas Henshall, Mathew Baynton, Mark Bonnar, Nimra Bucha, Phoebe Licorish and Tamzin Outhwait. The thriller directed by Meenu Gaur (Zinda Bhaag) follows a man who arrives in England and unexpectedly finds himself investigating a series of suspicious deaths, determined to prove that they are not accidents but murders. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Hulu Documentary ‘We Live Here: The Midwest’ Released
Posted: December 13, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Dario Forzato, Hulu, Melinda Maerker, score, Soundtrack, We Live Here: The Midwest
Evoq Music has released a soundtrack album for the Hulu original documentary We Live Here: The Midwest. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dario Forzato (It Hits You When You Know It, Sharkskin). Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and listen to the composer’s title track below. We Live Here: The Midwest is directed by Melinda Maerker, produced by David Clayton Miller and profiles families who hope to stay in a part of the country they love and have established deep roots: a trans/queer family in Iowa who must find a new community after being expelled from their church; a gay Black couple with a young child in Nebraska; a gay teacher in Ohio who creates a safe space for LGBTQI+ students; a lesbian couple who homeschool their bullied son on a farm in Kansas and a Minnesotan couple who struggles to rebuild their families following both of their transitions. Read the rest of this entry »
