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Film Fest Gent launches cooperation with Spotify

Film Fest Gent launches cooperation with Spotify

The digital music streaming service Spotify and Film Gent have signed an exclusive partnership. The Spotify Public Choice Award for best score will be awarded by the public during the 14th edition of the World Soundtrack Awards. Spotify will also present the new music section of the film festival: Sound and Vision In 2001 Film Fest Gent founded...
Talking with Yann Tiersen

Talking with Yann Tiersen

Οι συστάσεις για τον σαραντάρη (πλέον) Γάλλο συνθέτη ασφαλώς και περιττεύουν: το soundtrack του για την Αμελί από τη Μονμάρτη τον εκτόξευσε σε φήμη διεθνώς, παρότι συσκότισε το γεγονός ότι σημαντικό τμήμα της δισκογραφίας του τιμά την post punk αισθητική και το πνεύμα της avant-garde, παρά σχετίζεται με τον λυρικό ρομαντισμό.  To Skyline, το 7ο...
6th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival and Silent Film Music Competition

6th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival and Silent Film Music Competition

  The Pharos Arts Foundation and the Ergon Ensemble (Festival’s Ensemble-in-Residence for 2014) announce a call for scores as part of the 6th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival. Two composers will be selected to work with the Ergon Ensemble in Nicosia, Cyprus in early October 2014. Selected composers will be given free entrance to all Festival events and will receive...
3 NEW TREASURES FROM THE KRONOS GOLD COLLECTION

3 NEW TREASURES FROM THE KRONOS GOLD COLLECTION

  ISABELLA: DUCHESSA DEI DIAVOLI     Music by SANTE MARIA ROMITELLI  When Duke de Frissac refuses to give in to Baron Von Nutter’s request for his land and titles the latter assassinates him, unaware that the Duke’s daughter Isabella is witness to these tragic events. Little Isabella is rescued by Melicour and raised by him among his...
The Vikings II - Original Television Series Soundtrack

The Vikings II – Original Television Series Soundtrack

MUSIC BY TREVOR MORRIS WRITTEN FOR THE HIT TELEVISION SERIES Sony Music is pleased to announce the release of the original soundtrack of the second season of the successful HISTORY television series VIKINGS, featuring music composed by Trevor Morris. Morris has composed music for both seasons of the drama series. Morris is a Canadian orchestral...
DOWNHILL - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

DOWNHILL – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

MovieScore Media joins an exciting trip across Britain with Downhill, the most recent mockumentary style comedy spanning a loveable acoustic song score by To the Waters. Co-written and directed by James Rouse, the film tells the story of four friends who venture on a long trip across Britain to relive their golden days while struggling with...
International Film Music Festival Province of Córdoba

International Film Music Festival Province of Córdoba

World renowned film music composers will gather in Córdoba in July Line-up featuring over 20 renowned composers including Academy Award winner Steven Price (Gravity), Rolfe Kent (Sideways), Abel Korzeniowski (W.E.) and Craig Safan (The Last Starfighter)  Festival pays special tribute to Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004)  The complete composer guest line-up for the 2014 edition of the International...
CITY LIGHTS Radioshow - Hotel Edition

CITY LIGHTS Radioshow – Hotel Edition

City Lights and Kinetophone are closing Season 5 with the HOTEL EDITION! Movies and soundtracks set in Hotels! Travelling from 1932’s GRAND HOTEL and HOTEL BERLIN to THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, THE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, remembering the LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, booking A ROOM WITH A VIEW, or dare to...
CITY LIGHTS Radioshow - Reconstructing JERRY GOLDSMITH

CITY LIGHTS Radioshow – Reconstructing JERRY GOLDSMITH

CITY LIGHTS AND KINETOPHONE PRESENT RECONSTRUCTING JERRY GOLDSMITH  Rediscovering the majesty of his music through THE SALAMANDER, QBVII, HOUR OF THE GUN and THE RED PONY Special guests and interviews with composer & orchestrator Leigh Phillips  producer James Fitzpatrick  conductor & orchestrator Nic Raine  Plus a special “Salamander-Kinetophone Suite” arranged by Leigh Phillips. Thanks to...
DEEP RISING - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

DEEP RISING – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

DEEP RISING Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 278 Premiere release of complete original soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith for Stephen Sommers underwater monster picture starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi, Djimon Hounsou. Paraphrasing composer: picture had elements of fun but was too graphic for adventure-style music in vein of King Solomon’s Mines or...
BORDER RUN - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

BORDER RUN – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

MovieScore Media travels to Latin America once again with the release of Border Run, the human trafficking thriller by Argentinean filmmaker Gabriela Tagliavini. The story follows in the trails of American journalist Sofie Talbert (Sharon Stone), looking for her brother Aaron (Billy Zane) in Mexico. Aaron had been working in the country in a relief organisation,...
NYDENION - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

NYDENION – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

MovieScore Media goes to outer space with the soundtrack release of the German independent science-fiction Nydenion. Written and directed by Jack Moik, the film takes place in the future where interstellar travel has been perfected, but the exploration of vast new lands naturally leads to devastating wars. Rick Walker (Moik) is a former fighter pilot turned...
CITY LIGHTS Radioshow: Reconstructing Jerry Goldsmith

CITY LIGHTS Radioshow: Reconstructing Jerry Goldsmith

City Lights and Kinetophone present: Reconstructing Jerry Goldsmith! Rediscovering the majesty of his music through SALAMANDER, QBVII, HOUR OF THE GUN and THE RED PONY Special guests: Composer & Orchestrator Leigh Phillips Producer James Fitzpatrick Conductor & Orchestrator Nic Raine. Plus a special “Salamander-Kinetophone Suite” arranged by Leigh Phillips. Thanks to Asier G. Senarriaga and...
HOUSE OF CARDS: SEASON 2 - Music From The Original Series

HOUSE OF CARDS: SEASON 2 – Music From The Original Series

Varèse Sarabande Records will release the HOUSE OF CARDS: SEASON 2 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack as a 2 disc set digitally and on CD June 17th. The soundtrack features original score composed by Jeff Beal (MONK, BLACKFISH). Award-winning composer Jeff Beal scores HOUSE OF CARDS, the Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning original series, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. The show debuted in February of 2013 as...
THE SIGNAL - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

THE SIGNAL – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Varèse Sarabande Records will release THE SIGNAL Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, available digitally and on CD June 10, 2014.   The soundtrack features the original score by Nima Fakhara (GATCHAMAN, EXISTS), who created and built three instruments for the film. “We wanted to achieve a certain sense mystery and tension throughout the film,” said Fakhara.  “Our characters are being pulled and pushed in many directions so the music had...
REPORT 51 and LA RETE - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

REPORT 51 and LA RETE – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Following previous release of Across the River, MovieScore Media taps into the previously unexplored territory of contemporary Italian horror movies. Alessio Liguori’s Report 51 follows in the trails of four friends, who decide to move into the woodlands after they witness a strange sighting. What starts out as a fun adventure for a weekend turns...
CITY LIGHTS Radioshow: Best of 2014

CITY LIGHTS Radioshow: Best of 2014

City Lights and Kinetophone present the Best Scores of 2014! Airplaying Alexandre Desplat‘s scores (THE MONUMENTS MEN, GODZILLA, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL), THE DOUBLE by Andrew Hewitt, A PROMISE by Gabriel Yared, MALEFICENT by James Newton Howard, DIVERGENT by Junkie XL, Hans Zimmer in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 and WINTER’S TALE, CASTLEVANIA: LORDS OF SHADOW 2 by Oscar Araujo Sanchéz, BLACK SAILS by Bear McCreary,...