Here’s my round-up of recommended scores released over the previous week (w/e 9th July 2021). The Film Music of Pessi Levanto – Pessi Levanto (MovieScore Media) MovieScore Media’s new initiative, the ‘MovieScore Media Portfolio’, is an endeavour to “focus on talented film composers and their body of work” by releasing a number of works by…
Here’s this week’s round-up of recommended scores released over the previous week. Somos. (2021) – Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser (Maisie Music Publishing, LLC) Based on the true events of the massacre that unfolded in the Mexican town of Allende in 2011, the music for this Netflix mini-series is infused with a sombre quality that comes with…
Here’s this week’s round-up of recommended scores released over the previous week. Attack on Titan The Final Season (2020-2021) – Kohta Yamamoto & Hiroyuki Sawano (Pony Canyon Inc.) The music for the previous three seasons of this Japanese anime television series (composed by Hiroyuki Sawano) has always been one of the highlights of the year…
This week’s round-up of recommended scores released over the previous week. Luca (2021) – Dan Romer (Walt Disney Records) The latest Pixar/Walt Disney Studios release is an animated coming-of-age fantasy comedy drama that’s set on the Italian Riviera. One thing that can be more-or-less a certainty is how Romer expertly uses small ensembles of musicians…
This week’s round-up of recommended scores released over the previous week features a varied selection of titles and styles. Bodyguard (2016) – Karen Homayounfar (MobixMedia) Written for an Iranian thriller that centres on a bodyguard who is haunted by memories of a failed previous job, Homayounfar’s orchestral score focuses more on the emotional tribulations of…
La Octava Dimensión is a film from 2018 that was commissioned by Audi as part of an advertising campaign to promote their Q8 model. Directed by Kike Maillo (Eva, A Perfect Enemy), and starring Najwa Nimri (Abre Los Ojos, Lucía y el Sexo) as thriller writer Olga Calderón, the short film ends up being more…
This week’s round-up of recommended scores released over the previous week features 3 albums from TV shows. The Long Ballad (长歌行) (2021-) – Irving Victoria (北京翊辰文化传媒有限公司) Written for a Chinese historical drama, this long soundtrack release (110 minutes) contains a whole number of different styles: action-packed orchestral scoring, Far East-influenced passages, softer emotional tracks and…
The Pink Cloud (A Nuvem Rosa) is a Brazilian sci-fi drama that shows the day-to-day lives of two people who are forced to share a life after only just having met. Iuli Gerbase’s directorial debut has a mysterious cloud descending on the earth and which quickly kills everyone exposed to it. This forces everyone to…
This week’s round-up of recommended score albums released over the previous week offers an eclectic mix of styles to suit all tastes. The Underground Railroad (Volume 2) (2021) – Nicholas Britell (Lakeshore Records) This second volume of tracks from the Amazon Prime historical drama series continues from where the first volume left off. The overriding…
A Nigerian action thriller, Eagle Wings tells the story of an air force fighter pilot whose jet crashes in a region controlled by insurgents and the movie then follows the subsequent efforts to rescue him. Noteworthy because of being the first collaboration between a Nollywood production company and the military (Nigerian Air Force), the movie…
