Music Composed By IAN HULTQUIST.
Netflix Music releases THE ONE ABOUT MATTHEW PERRY (Soundtrack from the Netflix Documentary Series) today, featuring an emotionally charged score by London-based composer Ian Hultquist. Written for Mary Robertson’s three-part series, the music sets out to encapsulate Matthew Perry’s character, his snark, his wit and his charm, qualities that defined him both on screen and in life.
Told through intimate testimonies from close family and friends, this documentary event reveals the real Matthew Perry, generous, funny, vulnerable, larger than life, and the battles he fought to become the man behind the icon. A raw record of a life lived in full, and the honesty that became his greatest legacy.
Directed by Emmy Award winner Mary Robertson and produced by Maxine Productions, a part of Sony Pictures Television, the three-part series features Matthew Perry’s sister, Mia Perry Bowick, and his lifelong best friends, and includes unreleased photos and videos from the Perry family’s private archive.
Hultquist built the score from an eclectic palette of strings, pianos, guitars and synths, designed to move between minimal, emotional moments and swell into grandeur and excitement. The early part of Perry’s story is a classic rise to fame, and the music captures that exuberance as his persona takes off. Set against it are quiet, intimate moments of reflection, with the score blending seamlessly from one feeling to the next.
Hultquist notes:
“Getting to write this score for Matthew’s story was such an honor. He was someone that I always very much connected with on-screen, and I truly wanted to do him justice with the music. His story is one of laughter and love, but also intense sadness, and I tried to put lots of care and attention into capturing every special moment.”
ABOUT IAN HULTQUIST
Ian Hultquist is an acclaimed American composer and producer based in London. He began his career as a founding member of the band Passion Pit and studied film scoring at Berklee College of Music. Over the past decade he has composed scores for more than 50 films and 20 television series, with collaborators including Sam Levinson, Erin Lee Carr, Alena Smith and Karen Maine. In 2016 he founded Little Twig Records, a label dedicated to film and television soundtracks. His recent work includes the scores for Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish and Apple TV’s All of You, and he is currently scoring the third season of AMC’s The Walking Dead: Dead City
TRACKLIST
1. Fame
2. Potential
3. The Chase
4. Cheeky
5. Before the Bad Stuff
6. There’s Really Something Here
7. The Audition
8. Chandler is My Name
9. The Punchline
10. My Favorite Year So Far
11. The Dark Side
12. If I Don’t Get the Laugh
13. The Last One
14. After the Filming
15. The Root of the Problem
16. Reunion
17. Rupture
18. Top of the Mountain
19. Companions
21. Sentencing
20. A Snowy Night in October
22. Losing a Friend
23. Fame (Variation)
