West Hall Recordings will release a soundtrack album for the Academy Award-winning Netflix original documentary Icarus. The album features the film’s original music composed by Adam Peters (Savages, Snowden, Sand Castles) . The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 23 and will be available to download here. Icarus is directed by Bryan Fogel and follows the filmmaker and amateur bike racer as he plunges into a vast doping scandal involving a Russian scientist – Putin’s most-wanted whistleblower. The documentary premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released later that year before receiving the Academy Award in 2018 in the Best Documentary category.
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Weekly Film Music Roundup (August 4, 2017)
Two new movies are opening nationwide this weekend:
Opening in most theaters is the fantasy adventure The Dark Tower directed by Nikolaj Arcel and staring Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Fran Kranz, Abbey Lee and Jackie Earle Haley. The film’s original music is composed by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) (Mad Max: Fury Road, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Black Mass). Sony Masterworks has released a soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score. Check out our previous article for the full album details.
Also opening wide is the action thriller Kidnap directed by Luis Prieto and starring Halle Berry. Federico Jusid (The Secret in Their Eyes, Misconduct, Black Butterfly, The Hunter’s Prayer) has composed the film’s original music. A soundtrack album is in the works. The movie follows a mother who will stop at nothing to rescue her kidnapped son. The thriller is being released by Aviron Pictures. Visit the official movie website for more information.