VIDEO GAME (CORPSE PARTY: BLOOD COVERED)
Screeching violins mixed with ambient sounds. Ominous soundtrack to a creepy story line.
27.8.14
(Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon) - Power Glove - 'Power Core'
VIDEO GAME (FAR CRY 3: BLOOD DRAGON)
Deep low ends and high synths. Steady beating bass line with shrill synths.
26.8.14
(Magic In The Moonlight) - Bix Biederbecke - 'Big Boy'
FILM (MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT)
Woody Allen's "Magic In The Moonlight" has a wonderfully supervised soundtrack. While "You Do Something To Me" composed by Cole Porter but performed by Leo Reisman & His Orchestra functioned as the main theme to the film, "Big Boy" made the driving scenes memorable and fun.
Simply listening to the tooting trumpet and bouncing bright piano reminds me of the sunny scenes of the characters driving top-down by the South France seas. Now THAT is coasting.
29.7.14
(Mad Men) - David Carbonara - 'Lipstick'
TELEVISION DRAMA (MAD MEN)
Smoky jazz that doesn't heat up to a boil. This original Mad Men track composed by David Carbonara shifts its solos from one instrument to another often between dramatic pauses.
Carbonara's compositions don't all fall under the jazz genre. Here is another favorite track that changed the mood of the show - as if ridiculing the mess of the characters' lives.
Smoky jazz that doesn't heat up to a boil. This original Mad Men track composed by David Carbonara shifts its solos from one instrument to another often between dramatic pauses.
Carbonara's compositions don't all fall under the jazz genre. Here is another favorite track that changed the mood of the show - as if ridiculing the mess of the characters' lives.
19.5.14
(The Grand Budapest Hotel) - Alexandre Desplat - 'The New Lobby Boy'
FILM (THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL)
Flamenco guitar tremolos mixed with brushes on snares. The Slavic flavors found in Desplat's music helped make Wes Anderson's European country Zubrowka believable.
I also recommend "NIght Train To Nebelsbad."
11.3.14
(Silent Hill: Shattered Memories) Akira Yamaoka - 'Devil's Laughter'
VIDEO GAME
Akira Yamaoka combines ambient, sound effects, and hip-hop in many of his Silent Hill tracks. This is one of his more frightening tracks from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
I've also included a link to Akira Yamaoka – Angel's Scream
7.3.14
(Killer Instinct) - Mick Gordon - 'Sabrewulf Theme'
VIDEO GAME
From Killer Instinct (2013), composer Mick Gordon successfully uses strings in "Sabrewulf Theme" to heighten suspense. The percussion panning completes this track. The track scratching is intentional.
22.2.14
(The Wind Rises) Joe Hisaishi - "Journey (Dreamy Flight)"
Film (The Wind Rises)
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Joe Hisaishi composes for Hayao Miyazaki's films for the last time in The Wind Rises since it is Miyazaki's supposedly last film.
The mandolin is wonderful and reminiscent of Nino Rota's composing. The song really kicks up at 1:50 with the added percussion and tuba. Loving what the tuba low frequencies do to the piece.
I also suggest "Journey (Wind of Italia)" for some more of that liveliness.
Ah, yes. And the film was marvelous.
edited link 7/19/2020
2.2.14
(Hellraiser) Christopher Young - "Resurrection"
Film - Hellraiser (1987)
Hellraiser (1987) has a hair-raising soundtrack by Christopher Young who has also written scores for other horror movies like The Grudge (2004) and Fly II (1989).
It's very 80's sounding but its use of sound effects put it ahead of its time.
"Seduction and Pursuit" , used as the song for the box, is another favorite from this film.
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