SILVA SCREEN RECORDS PRESENTS
The Deceived
Emmy-nominated composer Hannah Peel has created a darkly atmospheric soundtrack for The Deceived, a contemporary psychological thriller scheduled to air on Channel 5 on 3rd August 2020.
Written by Lisa McGee (Derry Girls, Being Human, The White Queen) and Tobias Beer, the four-part drama from New Pictures (The Missing, Catherine the Great) is a compelling, sinister narrative of lust, manipulation and betrayal.
To soundtrack the complex psychological drama, Hannah Peel drew on one of the masters of the genre as inspiration: “I’m a fan of Hitchcock and of course the incredible Bernard Herrmann scores that always leave a wonderful aural aftertaste. The obsessive romance of Vertigo played on my mind a lot,” says Peel, “but The Birds was my main grounding for inspiration. The use of field recordings and electronic manipulations created a unique soundscape. This really came into play for a lot of my audio source material, which I recorded on set. I spent a day on set recording sounds specific to the old house to be able to work into the soundscape of the score. Unnerving atmospheres from crystal cut glass, sub-bass creaks from the front door: with electronic manipulation they became a foundation for me to score the strings on top of.”
Tensions and releases occur throughout. “The string scoring was saturated with swells and high contrasting dynamics,” explains Peel. “The players had to ease in and out of all parts as if breathing deeply. The electronic synths always had pulses within them, to keep building upon the restlessness. The piano also came into play a lot; high imperceptible tinkles on the strings themselves, mixed with the loud and low reversed swells leading into the shock moments. I used my voice intangibly too to underscore moments with whispers and ghostly melodies expressive of certain characters.”
Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Throughout a career that has included the solo electronic and pop work of Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; the electronic ruralism of Chalk Hill Blue, an album recorded with the poet Will Burns; and the space and the unparalleled vastness of Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band – Hannah Peel’s work is ambitious and forward-looking, adapting and re-inventing new genres and hybrid musical forms.
In 2019 she composed and recorded the soundtrack for Game of Thrones: The Last Watch which earned her an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series Or Special (Original Dramatic Score)’. Peel also began presenting the BBC Radio 3 show Night Tracks and scored the documentary film about the ground-breaking photographer and model, Lee Miller, which aired on BBC 2, May 2020.
Release date: 7th August 2020
Digital album: SILED4897
TRACKLIST
1. Knockdara To Cambridge
2. I Love You I Love You
3. Superstitious Nonsense
4. More Than Anything In The World
5. She’s My Sister
6. Capable Of Anything
7. Ghosts
8. Bridget McGinley
9. I’m On My Way
10. The Shore Cafe
11. Night Of The Fire
12. CCTV And Fire
13. Morning Da
14. What The Devil
15. Seeing The Damage
16. Music Box Reprised
17. In Black And White
18. Lighting The Fire
19. I Saw Her
20. Fire Bag
21. Evidence
22. Get Some Sleep
23. Arriving At Knockdara
24. Listen To Your Mother
