Soundtrack

GFF 2012 - Italo-horror artist Umberto

The soundtrack specialist fits comfortably into the Glasgow Music and Film Festival strand

1 Feb 2012

Horror-score revivalist Matt Hill channels the creepyass compositions of Goblin, John Carpenter and Fabio Frizzi in his eerie synthjams, conjuring up a sonic witches brew. A member of drone-merchants Expo 70, Hill has, in his Umberto guise, explored the…

Bruno Mars happy to be on Twilight soundtrack

Music Gossip

10 Nov 2011

Bruno Mars feels his new song 'Let It Rain' fits in with the new 'Twilight Saga' movie perfectly. The singer recorded the track for the penultimate instalment of the vampire movie, 'Breaking Dawn: Part 1', and says the song pays tribute to the…

The music and film collaborations of Tindersticks and Claire Denis

The creative partnership between the French director and the UK band

21 Oct 2011

Just as there are actors directors consistently work with, and where the French have a term called the acteur/actrice fétiche to define this affiliation, equally there are plenty filmmakers whose relationship with their composers seem equally…

Tindersticks: Claire Denis Scores 1996–2009

Excellent anthology of film scores from the French filmmaker and regular collaborator Stuart Staples

21 Mar 2011

(Constellation) This five-disc boxset containing six film scores are testament to the remarkable collaboration between French filmmaker Claire Denis, arguably the most intellectually fertile auteur working today, and Tindersticks bandleader Stuart A…

Daft Punk - TRON: Legacy OST

Sense of melancholy and creeping doom pervades perfect retro-futurism pairing

15 Dec 2010

(EMI) There’s as much hype and hyperbole around Daft Punk’s TRON: Legacy score as there is around the film itself. Putting aside the massive media assault that is now building around the Disney sequel, the hiring of the Parisian electronic dons for…

John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Volumes 1 and 2

21 Aug 2008

John Baker was one of three lynchpin members of the much mythologised BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 60s and 70s whose work, until this reissue on the ever oddball and reliable Trunk Records, has been overshadowed by that of his colleague Delia…

The Vernon Elliot Ensemble - Ivor the Engine and Pogle’s Wood

13 Dec 2007

SOUNDTRACK Ivor the Engine and Pogle’s Wood (Trunk) Smallfilms (a partnership between writer and narrator Oliver Postgate and animator Peter Firmin) made some of the most endearing children’s television shows from the 50s through to the 70s…

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Hallam Foe: Original Soundtrack

1 Aug 2007

Drawn fully from the diverse and brilliant stable at Domino records, the soundtrack to David Mackenzie’s forthcoming Scot flick Hallam Foe could hardly go far wrong.

Music from the Films of Martin Scorsese - CD review

Various

4 Sep 2006

Various, Music from the Films of Martin Scorsese - CD review