The details of the first soundtrack album for Lucasfilm’s Disney+ series Star Wars: The Bad Batch have been revealed. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s first eight episodes composed by Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars & Rebels, Doom Patrol, Titans, Narcos: Mexico, CSI: Miami, City on a Hill, Hell on Wheels). The Volume 1 soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 25 by Walt Disney Records and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music stores. A second album featuring the composer’s music from episodes 9-16 is set to be released on August 20. Star Wars: The Bad Batch is is created by Dave Filoni and stars Dee Bradley Baker, Ming-Na Wen, Stephen Stanton and Andrew Kishino.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 20, 2021)
Premiering tonight is the AMC original series Kevin Can F**k Himself created by Valerie Armstrong and starring Annie Murphy, Eric Petersen, Mary Hollis Inboden, Brian Howe, Raymond Lee and Alex Bonifer. The show’s original music is composed by Keegan DeWitt (Hearts Beat Loud, A Teacher, I’ll See You in My Dreams, Gemini, Divorce, Her Smell, The Hero). Check out our previous news article to learn more about the comedy, which will air Sunday nights on AMC and is also available to stream on AMC+.
Premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British mini-series Us adapted by David Nicholls from his novel of the same title, directed by Geoffrey Sax and starring Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, Tom Taylor, Sofie Gråbøl, Iain De Caestecker and Thaddea Graham. Oli Julian (Catastrophe, Sex Education, How to Build a Girl, Code 404, Episodes, Plebs) has composed the show’s original music. Manners McDade has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last year when the comedy drama premiered in the UK on BBC One. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and for more information about the series, which is making its U.S. premiere on PBS.
Vincent Artaud Scoring Disney+’s ‘Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life’
Disney+ announced this week that Vincent Artaud is scoring the upcoming animated series Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life. The show is executive produced by Marc du Pontavice (I Lost My Body, Close Enemies) and features the voices of Matthew Géczy, Kaycie Chase, Bill Farmer, Sylvain Caruso, David Gasman and Cindy Lee Delong. The animated comedy follows two tiny troublemakers, Chip and Dale, in their perpetual pursuit of acorns, who are joined by Pluto, Butch and other iconic Disney characters as they face down bullies great and small. Check out the show’s opening title sequence after the jump.
‘Luca’ Soundtrack Album Details
Walt Disney Records will release a soundtrack album for Pixar Animation Studios’ animated feature Luca. The album features the film’s original music composed by Dan Romer (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Maniac, Beasts of No Nation, The Good Doctor, Superman & Lois, Wendy). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 18 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Luca is directed by Enrico Casarosa and features the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Maya Rudolph, Saverio Raimondo, Marco Barricelli, Jim Gaffigan and Sandy Martin. The movie is set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera and tells the story of young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer with his new best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
First Track from Marvel’s ‘Loki’ Soundtrack Released
Marvel Music and Hollywood Records have released the first track from the soundtrack for Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Loki. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms (including Amazon) is the end titles cue TVA written by the show’s composer Natalie Holt (Journey’s End, Herself, Knightfall, Deadwater Fell, Press). Listen to the full track after the jump. A full soundtrack album, Loki: Chapter One (Episodes 1-3) is set to be released on July 2 and a second album, Loki: Chapter Two (Episodes 4-6) will be coming out on July 23. Loki is developed for television by Michael Waldron, directed by Kate Herron and stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku and Richard E. Grant.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (June 6, 2021)
Premiering in the U.S. today is the historical drama series Domina created by Simon Burke and starring Kasia Smutniak, Liam Cunningham, Colette Tchantcho, Claire Forlani, Christine Bottomley, Nadia Parkes, Ben Batt, Matthew McNulty and Isabella Rossellini. The show’s original music is composed by Samuel Sim (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Halcyon, The Spanish Princess, Home Fires). Dubois Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last month when the drama premiered in the UK on Sky Atlantic. Check out our previous article for the full album details. The series is making its U.S. debut on Epix.
Also premiering in the U.S. tonight is the British series Little Birds created by Sophia Al-Maria based on short stories by Anais Nin and starring Juno Temple, Yumna Marwan, Hugh Skinner, Raphael Acloque, Nina Sosanya, Jean-Marc Barr, Amy Landecker and Matt Lauri. Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Mrs. Wilson, The Pale Horse, Lost Girls, Calibre, Untouchable, This Beautiful Fantastic) has composed the show’s original music. SATV has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score last fall when the drama premiered in the UK on Sky Atlantic. Click here for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which is making its U.S. debut on Starz.
Soundtracks for Disney’s ‘Launchpad’ Shorts Released
Walt Disney Records has released multiple EPs and digital singles featuring the music from the first season of the Disney+ Launchpad live-action short films from a new generation of storytellers. Available to stream/download now on all major digital music platforms is a score suite from Aqsa Altaf’s American Eid composed by Siddhartha Khosla (This Is Us, Runaways, Looking for Alaska), the song Island and the score from Hao Zheng’s Dinner Is Served composed by Xue Ran Chen, the song Medio Vivo by AG from Ann Marie Pace’s Growing Fangs, Renee Goust‘s song El son del Chupa y la Chepa from Jessica Mendez Siqueiros’ The Last of the Chupacabras, the full score for Stefanie Abel Horowitz’s Let’s Be Tigers composed by Tangelene Bolton, as well as the original score from Moxie Peng’s The Little Prince(ss) composed by Robert Ouyang Rusli.
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans Scoring National Geographic’s ‘Cousteau’ Documentary
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Ozark, Boy Erased, The Gift, The White Tiger, The Devil All the Time, Enemy) have composed the original music for the upcoming National Geographic documentary Cousteau. The film is directed by Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?, Lost Girls, Bobby Fischer Against the World) and focuses on the world’s most famous ocean explorer, Jacques Cousteau, who revolutionized our understanding of the natural world, giving mankind the resources to explore the ocean with the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. The movie explores the renowned explorer’s life, revealing the man behind some of the world’s most significant contributions to marine conservation.
First Songs from ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ Season 2 Soundtrack Released
Walt Disney Records has released the first songs from the soundtrack of the second season of the Disney+ original series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Available to stream/download is the High School Musical 2 Medley and Something in the Air performed by the show’s cast and The Perfect Gift & Bet On It performed by Joshua Bassett. Already out since last month is the duet Even When/The Best Part performed by Olivia Rodrigo & Bassett. Check out the official music videos for High School Musical 2 Medley and The Perfect Gift after the jump. Season 2 of High School Musical: The Musical created by Tim Federle based on the High School Musical movies is premiering today exclusively on Disney+.
First Track from ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Soundtrack Released
Walt Disney Records has released the first track from the soundtrack for Lucasfilm’s Disney+ series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Available to stream/download now as a digital single is Enter the Bad Batch written by the show’s composer Kevin Kiner (Star Wars: The Clone Wars & Rebels, Narcos: Mexico, CSI: Miami, Hell on Wheels, Titans, Doom Patrol). Also listen to the full track after the jump. Two full soundtrack albums will be coming out on June 25 (Volume 1 – Episodes 1-8) and August 20 (Volume 2 – Episodes 9-16). Star Wars: The Bad Batch is created by Dave Filoni and features the voices of Dee Bradley Baker, Ming-Na Wen, Stephen Stanton and Andrew Kishino.