Sony Masterworks will release the official soundtrack album for Aardman’s animated comedy Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. The album features the film’s original score composed by Emmy Award nominee Natalie Holt (Loki, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chad Powers, The Princess, Journey’s End, Talamsca: The Secret Order, Rivals, Beecham House, Knightfall, Herself, Press). Also included is a new “Halloween Mix” of the theme song Shaun the Sheep – Life’s a Treat by the track’s songwriters Mark Thomas & Vic Reeves and the hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, September 18 (visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download). Also listen to a score track and the song below and click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is directed by Steve Cox & Matthew Walker and features the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour, Roman Kemp and Dani Dyer.
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Theodore Shapiro to Score ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’
Film Music Reporter has learned that composer Theodore Shapiro will make his animation scoring debut on the upcoming film The Pirates! Band of Misfits. The film’s story follows the fortunes of a cheerful but hapless pirate band as they cross the seven seas in search of adventure. The Aardman Animations-produced movie is directed by Peter Lord who is best known for his collaborations with Nick Park on the Wallace & Gromit series and the 2000 feature film Chicken Run, which he co-directed alongside Park. More recently, he also produced the Aardman Animations production Flushed Away and is involved in the upcoming animated film Arthur Christmas, which has Michael Giacchino attached to write the music. The Pirates! is co-directed by Jeff Newitt who previously worked as an animator on Aardman’s Chicken Run and Flushed Away. Not much is known about he project at this point, but it has been announced that The Pirates! will be created with the hand-crafted claymation/stop-motion technique that Aardman is known for and that the movie will be released in 3D.