THE BEST SCORES OF 2021
Hans Zimmer’s DUNE gives spice to an intoxicatingly powerful year of scoring’s return to the big screen
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07Dec2021
19Nov2021
Interview with Kris Bowers
Making the musically winning serves for the sister tennis icons brought up by “King Richard”
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12Nov2021
Interview with Rachel Portman
Being inspired in the musical kitchen while cooking with “Julia”
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29Oct2021
Interview with Javier Navarrete
After notably playing childhood nightmares in Spain, a composer tracks down the Native American legend of The Wendigo with “Antlers”
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22Oct2021
Interview with Ben Lovett
Scoring down a retro-paranoia rabbit hole to find the source of a “Broadcast Signal Intrusion”
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17Sep2021
Interview with Roger Suen
A composer powerfully returns home to Justin Chon’s land of social relevancy for “Blue Bayou”
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03Sep2021
20Aug2021
Interview with Joseph Vitarelli
Waving a poignant score for a father’s life of crime and a desperate daughter in Sean Penn’s “Flag Day”
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04Aug2021
Interview with Daniel Hart
Composer Daniel Hart (photo by Emily Ulmer) It’s been ages since an eternal tale of an Arthurian quest has enchanted discerning viewers and critics to equal degree, let alone depicted often straightforwardly told tales of valiance in such bizarre shadings of color. But heads off to “The Green Knight” for accomplishing its mission in such […]
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16Jul2021
Interview with Anna Drubich
Invoking bitingly humorous werewolves and a deadly serious witch, a multi-faceted Russian composer makes a name for herself in Hollywood horror
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15Jul2021
Interview with Starr Parodi
Musically painting for live, living pictures at the enduring Pageant of the Masters
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14Jul2021
Interview with Frank Ilfman
Whipping up nutty assassin grrl power score for “Gunpowder Milkshake”
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25Jun2021
Interview with Max Aruj
A rising composer scores the triple threat of “The Ice Road’s” slippery action to “Lansky’s” warped morals and the ancient fury of “Wrath of the Druids”
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07Jun2021
Interview with Jeff Grace
Finding the emotional spot for a post-apocalyptic deer boy fairy tale in “Sweet Tooth”
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04Jun2021
Interview with Amie Doherty
Taking a sweeping, girl power orchestral ride with “Spirit Untamed”
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09Apr2021
Interview with Trevor Gureckis
Going from sonic sci-fi structure to Lord of the Flies frenzy in space alongside the “Voyagers”
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12Mar2021
Interview with Electric Youth and Pilotpriest
The 80’s ghost in the synth machine has never been more alive than in a soundtrack explosion exhumed from the likes of Charles Bernstein’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” John Carpenter and Alan Howarth’s “Prince of Darkness” and Michel Rubini’s “Manhunter.” It’s a tone that can be both rhythmically aggressive and ethereally haunting, particularly when […]
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05Mar2021
Interview with Jermaine Stegall
A new scoring prince gets his Hollywood coronation by taking Zamunda travel arrangements to a vibrantly funny new musical future
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01Mar2021
MARCH SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
Check into the creative terror of “Psycho III” and “Willy’s Wonderland” among such notable soundtracks as “Banning,” “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Below Zero,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Mortal,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and many more!
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26Feb2021
15Feb2021
12Feb2021
Interview with Emile Mosseri
Of the new crop of composers to spring from an indie sensibility and all of the fertile, innovative ideas that come with it, perhaps no musician has captured the idea of what it is to find an outsider’s American measure of success than Emile Mosseri. Hailing from Egyptian roots, Mosseri has poetically captured themes of […]
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08Jan2021
18Dec2020
Interview with Branford Marsalis
There’s often no pressure cooker like a recording studio where the clock is running, and the egos are flaring. Add to that the rage of racial injustice and the diva behavior of an ego that’s earned and it’s a session ready for an eruption. The tortuous, yet tuneful process of getting that song sung opens […]
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15Dec2020
THE BEST SCORES OF 2020
“The Queen’s Gambit” makes the winning move on a notable playing field
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24Nov2020
15Nov2020
Interview with Dara Taylor
Putting hypnotic structure to criminal chaos with “Echo Boomers”
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23Oct2020
Interview with Carlos Rafael Rivera
Making the winning melodic moves with “The Queen’s Gambit”
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06Oct2020
28Sep2020
Interview with Marc Streitenfeld
Continuing to explore alien worlds and the nature of android parenting in “Raised by Wolves”
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