Film music: the French association of film music composers (UCMF) celebrates its tenth anniversary and launches a FRENCH SCORING CONTEST

“Film music: the French association of film music composers (UCMF) celebrates its tenth anniversary and launches a scoring contest!"

The Union of composers of film music (UCMF) is preparing a programme of events (concerts, master classes, etc) for the ten years of its existence, which begins with a national scoring contest launched this week.

Scoring contest
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, UCMF offers in France living composers the opportunity to write an original music inspired by pictures of the silent movie directed by Julie Bertuccelli entitled "Austerlitz / La Rapee" (2 '). The music will be mounted on the film and precisely synchronized with the image.

Video in download here : http://goo.gl/kIfzo

Partiticipation here : http://www.dailymotion.com/contest/concoursucmf10ans

Comprehensive rules of contest can be downloaded at: http://goo.gl/u3Rt4

Participation: from 16th September 2012 till 15th June 2013 - only for composers based in France
To win: a two days session of professional recording at residence.

Other events during the 10 years celebrations
True to its adage to communicate about the specificities of the film composers’ profession, UCMF organizes from 17th September 2012 until the end of 2013, a series of events, including:
- Public lectures on the work of well-known composers with guests;
- A concert by members of UCMF presenting their work for film, television, advertising and also video games.

Patronage Committee
The original film music composition is closely related to the language of pictures: we invite you all to celebrate with UCMF and under the patronage of a committee especially constituted for the occasion: Jean-Michel Bernard, Ludovic Bource, Guillaume Conesson, Vladimir Cosma, Bruno Coulais, Eric Demarsan, Patrick Doyle, Antoine Duhamel, Philippe Hersant, Francis Lai, Jean-Claude Petit, Philippe Rombi, Claude Pinoteau, Vincent Arnardi, Maggie Rodford and Marie Sabbah.

The association
Founded on 16th September 2002 under the leadership of Greco Casadesus and Cyril Morin, UCMF has started its mission to defend and make known the specificities of a profession which is essential for movies and, more broadly, for audiovisual creation. At present, UCMF is chaired by Bernard Grimaldi and nearly 100 composers contribute through their membership to the richness of the association with their experience, sensitivity and expertise.

Press contacts:
UCMF - Espace Altura - 46 rue Saint Antoine - 75004 PARIS
Email: contact@ucmf.fr / Site: www.ucmf.fr
Tel: 06 26 82 25 26

ILAN ESHKERI - "Retreat" (2012)

Original Release Date: October 16, 2012
Format - Music: MP3

Product Details / INFO / SOUND CLIPS here.

    Original Release Date: October 16, 2012
    Release Date: October 16, 2012
    Label: Universal UK
    Copyright: (C) 2011 Metropolis Movie Music Ltd
    Record Company Required Metadata: Music file metadata contains unique purchase identifier. Learn more.
    Total Length: 51:54

Movie info at imdb.com here.

Tracklisting here:

  1. To The Island
2. Visitor's Book
3. Doug Leaves
4. Shoreline
5. Pistol
6. Jack's Story
7. Weapons
8. There Are People Here
9. Scars & Tattoos
10. Kate's Confession
11. Outside
12. Shotgun
13. Jack's Confession
14. Elegy For Martin
15. The Truth
16. Wheelbarrow
17. The Retreat

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

Director:
Carl Tibbetts
Writers:
Janice Hallett, Carl Tibbetts
Stars:
Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell and Thandie Newton

THOMAS NEWMAN's score for the new James Bond movie: SKYFALL (2012)

Product details

    Audio CD (29 Oct 2012)
    Number of Discs: 1
    Label: Sony Music Classical

More about the release here.

First listen just uploaded today, here by Cinemamusica1

 

Listen to a sound clip here.

Nathaniel Mechaly - Taken 2

Score release details from amazon.com

Produktinformation

    Audio CD (15. Oktober 2012)
    Anzahl Disks/Tonträger: 1
    Format: Import
    Label: Labels I Idol

A.R.RAHMAN's "Jab Tak Hai Jaan", mp3 release (2012)

Product Details

    Original Release Date: October 1, 2012
    Label: YRF Music
    Copyright: (c) 2012 Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd.
    Total Length: 5:20

Info about the movie here.

Who does those cd covers, really?

 

DARIO MARIANELLI - Anna Karenina, score CD details

Dario Marianelli's new score for his frequent collaborator, Mr.Wright, or to put it simply: one of the most beautiful romantic scores you'll hear this year. Do not miss out!

Product Details

    Audio CD (November 13, 2012)
    Number of Discs: 1
    Format: Soundtrack
    Label: Decca

Track Listings
1. Overture
2. Clerks
3. She is of the Heavens
4. Anna Marches Into a Waltz
5. Beyond the Stage
6. Kitts Debut
7. Dance With Me
8. The Girl and the Birch
9. Unavoidable
10. Can-Can
11. I Dont Want You to Go
12. Time for Bed
13. Too Late
14. Someone is Watching
15. Lost in a Maze
16. Leaving Home, Coming Home
17. Mashas Song
18. A Birthday Present
19. At the Opera
20. I Know How to Make You Sleep
21. Annas last train
22. I Understood Something
23. Curtain
24. Seriously 

What amazon.com has to say about this:

Review
There are several themes in the score of Anna Karenina:sometimes appearing alone, often intersecting, their paths running alongside for a while. Those paths are shared by the
characters in the story as they walk towards or away from convention, pretence, happiness, guilt, love, fun, and even truth.

In a very important sense, the musical motifs do not represent the characters themselves I prefer to think of them as spirits, perhaps demons, unseen, signposting the way, or simply bearing witness to the events.

Most of the action, in our version of Tolstoys novel, takes place in an abandoned theatre, upon or around a stage a symbol of the make-believe life of the Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th century. Having convention and pretence confined within the boundaries of an old theatre, hints of course to another life,

one that must exist somewhere outside the confines of that stage. The music of Anna Karenina is perched between those two worlds.

For the curious: track 8: Beroza (Birch) is a very old Russian folk song: of its many versions, the one I used talks of a young woman deceiving an older husband. for track 19 At the Opera I used Tolstoy s own words from Anna Karenina, Part II, Chapter XI --DARIO MARIANELLI 13th August 2012
 

Product Description

There are several themes in the score of Anna Karenina:sometimes appearing alone, often intersecting, their paths running alongside for a while. Those paths are shared by the
characters in the story as they walk towards or away from convention, pretence, happiness, guilt, love, fun, and even truth.

In a very important sense, the musical motifs do not represent the characters themselves I prefer to think of them as spirits, perhaps demons, unseen, signposting the way, or simply bearing witness to the events.

Most of the action, in our version of Tolstoys novel, takes place in an abandoned theatre, upon or around a stage a symbol of the make-believe life of the Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th century. Having convention and pretence confined within the boundaries of an old theatre, hints of course to another life,
one that must exist somewhere outside the confines of that stage. The music of Anna Karenina is perched between those two worlds.

For the curious: track 8: Beroza (Birch) is a very old Russian folk song: of its many versions, the one I used talks of a young woman deceiving an older husband. for track 19 At the Opera I used Tolstoy s own words from Anna Karenina, Part II, Chapter XI

Dario Marianelli - 13th August 2012 

ANTON SANKO - The Possession (2012)

Details about the mp3 album of the new Anton Sanko (Rabbit Hole) horror score.

Product Details

    Label: Lions Gate Records, Inc.
    Total Length: 48:30
    Genres:
        Soundtracks
    ASIN: B009FOD56I

Tracklisting and sound clips HERE.

MICHAEL BROOK - the perks of being a wallflower (2012)

Details about the mp3 album for the new score by the Canadian Guitarist and composer, Michael Brook. Link here for amazon.com

Product Details

    Label: Lions Gate Records, Inc
    Total Length: 23:42
    Genres:
        Soundtracks

The link includes sound clips as well.

London Music Works, LSO, City of Prague Philharmonic present "The Film Music of Alexandre Desplat"

Product Details

 

    Original Release Date: October 16, 2012
    Label: Silva Screen Records
    Copyright: (C) 2012 Silva Screen Records
    Total Length: 46:45

 

Tracklisting

 

1. Lily's Theme (From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2")
2. Obliviate (From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1")
3. The King's Speech (From "The King's Speech")
4. Opening Title (From "Tamara Drewe")
       5. Postcards / Daisy's Ballet Career (From "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")
 6. New Moon (From "The Twilight Saga: New Moon") 
7. Memories of Edward (From "The Twilight Saga: New Moon")
8. You're Alive (From "The Twilight Saga: New Moon")
9. Marry Me, Bella (From "The Twilight Saga: New Moon")
10. The People's Princess (From "The Queen")
11. H.R.H (From "The Queen")
12. Prologue (From "Birth")
13. Griet's Theme (From "Girl With a Pearl Earring")
     14. The Luzhin Defence (From "The Luzhin Defence")
 

 

Click here to find out more about the mp3 release and listen to sound clips.

CHRISTOPHER YOUNG - Sinister (2012)

Terrifying trailer, big project, score by Christopher Young. What else could we want? 

Audio CD (October 16, 2012)
Original Release Date: 2012
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Varese Sarabande

If you go here to amazon.com, you can watch the score release closely. Can't wait to hear this and view its functions on the big screen. 

JOHN WILLIAMS - Lincoln

Product Details

    Audio CD (November 6, 2012)
    Original Release Date: 2012
    Number of Discs: 1
    Format: Soundtrack
    Label: Sony Classical

In a career spanning almost six decades, John Williams has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures including Star Wars, Jaws, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List and the first three Harry Potter films. Winner of twenty-one Grammy® Awards, four Golden Globe® Awards and five Academy Awards®, Williams is easily the most recognized composer working in film today. He has a long association with Steven Spielberg, composing music for all but two of Spielberg's feature films, most recently on the Academy Award® -nominated scores for The Adventures of Tintin and Warhorse.

Sound clips from CLOUD ATLAS, REINHOLD HEIL / JOHNNY KLIMEK / TOM TYKWER (2012)

Perhaps one of the most awaited projects of the year, now you can find the tracklisting, info, view the cd cover and listen to sound clips over here at Amazon

    Original Release Date: October 23, 2012
    Label: Watertower Music
    Copyright: 2012 WaterTower Music / Warner Bros. Entertainment / Cloud Atlas Productions GmbH / X Filme Creative Pool GmbH
    Total Length: 1:17:25

1. Prelude: The Atlas March
2. Cloud Atlas Opening Title
3. Travel to Edinburgh
4. Luisa’s Birthmark
5. Cavendish In Distress
6. Papa Song
7. Sloosha’s Hollow
8. Sonmi-451 Meets Chang
9. Won’t Let Go
10. Kesselring
11. The Escape
12. Temple Of Sacrifice
13. Catacombs
14. Adieu
15. New Direction
16. All Boundaries Are Conventions
17. The Message
18. Chasing Luisa Rey
19. Sonmi’s Discovery
20. Death Is Only A Door
21. Cloud Atlas Finale
22. The Cloud Atlas Sextet for Orchestra
23. Cloud Atlas End Title

Also see this article here about the first reactions from the movie / score.

Composer RYAN SHORE releases his first video game score: the electronic and energetic SPY HUNTER

SPY HUNTER ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK
COMPOSED BY RYAN SHORE

Grammy Nominated Composer Scores Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's Reboot of Legendary Combat Racing Series. Sound clips here and here @ WaterTower Music.

 Los Angeles, CA - September 27, 2012 - Film composer Ryan Shore has created the action-driven music score for SPY HUNTER, the reboot of the legendary combat driving series, specially developed for PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS. Launching in North America on October 9, SPY HUNTER is published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developed by TT Fusion. SPY HUNTER marks the first video game score for composer Ryan Shore who recently received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Score Soundtrack (The Shrine).

In the game, players take on the role of the "Agent", driver of the legendary G-6155 Interceptor Supercar, armed extensively with advanced weaponry and high-tech gadgetry, and ready to take on a global terrorist organization set on world domination. Experience total control, as the Interceptor seamlessly transforms from supercar to off-road assault vehicle to speed boat, allowing you to eliminate threats wherever your mission takes you.

For SPY HUNTER, Shore composed a contemporary hybrid music score by fusing live performances with electronic grooves and overdubs. Recording with a jazz big band Ryan acoustically re-created Henry Mancini's iconic theme to "Peter Gunn" and remixed the new arrangement with modern electronic sounds. The soundtrack will be released on Amazon MP3 and iTunes through WaterTower Music on October 9th. Preview samples of the score are available here.

Upon graduating from the prestigious Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship, Ryan Shore began his scoring career working for his uncle, Academy Award winning composer Howard Shore. Among his diverse motion picture portfolio, Ryan's credits include Prime, Harvard Man, Numb, The Girl Next Door and Cabin Fever 2. In addition to his 2012 Grammy nomination for The Shrine, Ryan was previously honored with the Elmer Bernstein Scoring Award and the prestigious Clive Davis Award, among numerous other industry awards. He has also played saxophone with artists including Matchbox Twenty. For more information visit www.ryanshore.com.

Ryan Shore is represented for video games by Levenson Artists Agency in association with Incite Management.

SPY HUNTER © 2012 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Developed by TT Fusion Ltd. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT - "Reality"

Yet another new score from Alexandre Desplat, the composer whom we can't seem to get enough from! This time is for "REALITY", the director's Matteo Garrone new project, after his very successful "Gomorrah" in 2008.

You can find more about the movie here.

Listen to the clips from the score release here.

Original Release Date: October 2, 2012
Label: Radiofandango Srl
Copyright: (p) Radiofandango
Total Length: 38:29

Scoring Sessions' Video from DANNY ELFMAN's "FRANKENWEENIE"

Scoring sessions videos from the latest Elfman-Burton collaboration, "Frankenweenie".

Score release here.

• Original Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Label: Walt Disney Records
• Copyright: (C) 2012 Disney Enterprises, Inc.

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT's "Argo"

Desplat's new score is out on watertower music soon and you can preview it here:

http://www.watertower-music.com/releases_spotlight.php?search=WTM39383

Here's the tracklisting: 

1. Argo
2. A Spy In Tehran
3. Scent Of Death
4. The Mission
5. Hotel Messages
6. Held Up By Guards
7. The Business Card
8. Breaking Through The Gates
9. Tony Grills The Six
10. The Six Are Missing
11. Sweatshop
12. Drive To The Airport
13. Missing Home
14. Istanbul – The Blue Mosque
15. Bazaar
16. Cleared Iranian Airspace


PRESS RELEASE update 8-10-12

(October 08, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – On October 9, 2012, WaterTower Music will release the Argo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at all digital retailers.  The original music was composed by four-time Academy-Award® nominee Alexandre Desplat.

The film's director Ben Affleck said, “We needed to find a theme that we would use throughout—obviously different instrumentation and tempo, but still the same piece of music." He turned to composer Alexandre Desplat. "Desplat was amazing at crafting an atypical score, incorporating uncommon instruments, many Middle Eastern in origin. It doesn’t feel too literal or cliché, but he created a sound that instantly puts you in that place.”

A four-time Academy Award® nominee, Desplat received his most recent Oscar® nod for his score for the Best Picture winner “The King’s Speech,” for which he also won a BAFTA Award and earned a Golden Globe nomination.  He previously garnered Oscar® and BAFTA Award nominations for his score for the animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox”; Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; and Oscar® and BAFTA Award nominations for Stephen Frears’ “The Queen.” In addition, Desplat won a Golden Globe Award for John Curran’s “The Painted Veil,” and also received Golden Globe nominations for his scores for Stephen Gaghan’s “Syriana” and Peter Webber’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”

Desplat more recently created the scores for “The Tree of Life,” directed by Terrence Malick; George Clooney’s “The Ides of March”; “Carnage,” which reunited him with Roman Polanski; Stephen Daldry’s “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”; and the two-film finale of the Harry Potter film franchise, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 and 2.”

Oscar® winner Ben Affleck (“The Town,” “Good Will Hunting”) directs and stars in “Argo.” Based on real events, the dramatic thriller “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, focusing on the little-known role that the CIA and Hollywood played—information that was not declassified until many years after the event.  On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage.  But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor.  Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, the Canadian and American governments ask the CIA to intervene.  The CIA turns to their top “exfiltration” specialist, Tony Mendez, to come up with a plan to get the six Americans safely out of the country.  A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.

The Argo -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on WaterTower Music will be available digitally on October 9, 2012

And the movie's trailer can be found here.

ORBITAL - Pusher (2012)

Well if this is half-as-good as Daft Punk's TRON, then we got ourselves score of the year! 

 Danish writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn achieved global screen fame for his indie hit Drive. Pusher is the British remake of his debut 1996 film which became a cult hit across Europe. Starring Richard Coyle and Agyness Deyn It opens in UK cinemas on Oct 12th. Brothers, Phil and Paul Hartnoll formed electronic dance music duo Orbital in 1989 and recorded their seminal hit Chime on their father s cassette deck. 23 years later their formidable chart record includes 17 hit singles and 14 hit albums. Their music has appeared in a wide range of films that include Mortal Kombat, The Saint, Pi and xXx. They will tour throughout the UK in December 2012.

1. Pusher Theme
2. Pay Me The Money
3. Driving And Clubbing
4. Turkish Tension
5. Bridge Deal
6. Cutting And Doing
7. Chase
8. Cell
9. Frank Mirror
10. Haken Bar
11. Serious Pet Shop
12. Vvip
13. Heroin Bath
14. Pet Shop Suicide
15. Frank Car Freak
16. Kiss
17. Coffee Kneecaps
18. Cab To Danaka’s
19. Safe Kitchen
20. Party Freak
21. Post Nipple
22. Go With The Flo
23. Guns And Party (Bonus Track)
24. Higher – Lloyd Perrin
25. The Music (Instrumental) - Marcus Marr
26. Beat And The Pulse (Still Going Remix) - Austra

MARCO BELTRAMI - Trouble with Curve (2012)

Product Details

    Audio CD (October 2, 2012)
    Original Release Date: 2012
    Number of Discs: 1
    Format: Soundtrack
    Label: Varese Sarabande

Find more about this cd release here.

Screamworks releases new horror score: The Tall Man (Todd Bryanton, Joel Douek and Christopher Young)

The Tall Man (Todd Bryanton, Joel Douek and Christopher Young) is surely one very interesting new release coming from Screamworks and MovieScore Media. 

Here's the movie's trailer: 

And here's the info from the release's press-kit: 

http://moviescoremedia.com/screamworks/2012/09/11/the-tall-man-todd-bryanton-joel-douek-and-christopher-young-2/

“Todd Bryanton’s original score is brilliant from start to finish” (Horror Talk)

Starring Jessica Biel as a mother whose child has gone missing,The Tall Man features a dark and haunting soundtrack featuring an exciting and adreanaline-driving score by two up and coming film composers, Todd Bryanton and Joel Douek, and one of the film music industry’s true icons, Christopher Young (Hellraiser, Drag Me to Hell, Priest, The Fly II, The Exorcism of Emily Rose).

The music effectively captures the dark legend of the Tall Man, but also features tender and more melodic moments of love and reflection. Screamworks Records is proud to present this album, produced by George Acogny (Blood Diamond, Bridge to Terabithia, Faces in the Crowd), in conjunction with the theatrical releases of the film in USA and France

   

SWD0002 • THE TALL MAN (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by TODD BRYANTON, JOEL DOUEK &CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
Release date (digital only): September 11, 2012

TRACK LIST

1 Opening 1:46
2 Julia Chases the Tall Man 2:25
3 The Tall Man Reveals 1:25
4 The Dog Attack 2:22
5 The Truck 2:10
6 In the Forest 1:58
7 Looking for David 2:20
8 Flashbacks 4:06
9 We Got Too Comfortable 2:50
10 There Is No Tall Man 2:11
11 Miss Johnson 1:36
12 Running Away 2:34
13 A New Life 3:16
14 Playing the Castle 1:15
15 End Credits 4:28
16 Hmm Lose’n Everythang 1:09
17 Tall Man Lullaby 0:45

Suite from and Inspired by “The Tall Man” (Christopher Young):
18 Dead? 4:39
19 Where Are They Now? 3:14
20 The Invisible Children 5:52
21 Silent Blessing 4:40
22 Tall Man 2:25

RAMIN DJAWADI scores another "MEDAL OF HONOR" game

After his highly different (compared to his usual output) and surprisingly melodic score for 2010's "MEDAL OF HONOR" reviewed here, the comopser returns again to the franchise to score the new installment entitled: "Warfighter" along with Linkin Park's (!) Mike Shinoda (who did THE RAID:Redemption recently). 

UPDATE: Sound clips here.

Here's the cd cover: 

Tracklisting: 

1. For Rabbit


2. Deploy


3. NOC Out


4. Lena’s Theme


5. Kit Up


6. Restless Natives


7. Blackbird On a Wire


8. Bridge the Gap


9. Saa’iq


10. The Raid


11. Force Multiplier


12. Old Friend, New Foe


13. Victory At Sea


14. Resolve


15. Green Light


16. H.A.H.O.


17. Medal Run


18. For Mother


19. Buzz in the Air


20. Lena’s Dream


21. With Honors