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TOUCH 012CD
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Initially released as an interactive app in which the viewer directed the narrative -- Mosaic is a six-part HBO series conceived and directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Sharon Stone. Mosaic is a twisting tale of passion, intrigue, and deception focusing on the disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah and the four-year effort by law- enforcement and civilians to discover the truth behind the crime. With that in mind, David Holmes's original soundtrack for Mosaic weaves as intriguing a tale. Recorded between Belfast and Los Angeles by Holmes, the album features a modern-day wrecking crew of musicians. Echoes of Ennio Morricone abound alongside the influence of avant-garde pioneers and Holmes's current soundtrack contemporaries in a selection of deep listening tracks. To quote Mark Kermode, Mosaic outlines Holmes's expertise at "ratcheting up the tension" with strings, horns, and synthesizers swelling throughout. As this tension peaks there is inevitable release -- in rhythmic and harmonic tracks such as "What I Want Is The Red Room" and Badalamenti-esque lounge eeriness in the likes of "Four Years Later" -- guiding the 20 cues presented on this release into a cohesive, full, and nuanced album that reveals subtle and rewarding intricacies on each repeated listen. Mosaic once again outlines Holmes as a modern master of the original soundtrack.
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LP version. Red vinyl. Initially released as an interactive app in which the viewer directed the narrative -- Mosaic is a six-part HBO series conceived and directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Sharon Stone. Mosaic is a twisting tale of passion, intrigue, and deception focusing on the disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah and the four-year effort by law- enforcement and civilians to discover the truth behind the crime. With that in mind, David Holmes's original soundtrack for Mosaic weaves as intriguing a tale. Recorded between Belfast and Los Angeles by Holmes, the album features a modern-day wrecking crew of musicians. Echoes of Ennio Morricone abound alongside the influence of avant-garde pioneers and Holmes's current soundtrack contemporaries in a selection of deep listening tracks. To quote Mark Kermode, Mosaic outlines Holmes's expertise at "ratcheting up the tension" with strings, horns, and synthesizers swelling throughout. As this tension peaks there is inevitable release -- in rhythmic and harmonic tracks such as "What I Want Is The Red Room" and Badalamenti-esque lounge eeriness in the likes of "Four Years Later" -- guiding the 20 cues presented on this release into a cohesive, full, and nuanced album that reveals subtle and rewarding intricacies on each repeated listen. Mosaic once again outlines Holmes as a modern master of the original soundtrack.
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Restocked; Limited edition vinyl + download -- numbered. Inspired by a number of conversations between director Yann Demange and music producer David Holmes, the majority of '71's score was created before the film was shot. Yann likes to shoot with music already written -- an idea that resonates with the collaborative work of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. With reference to Can's soundtrack work, in which only Irmin Schmidt would have seen the film, David would describe the emotion, tone and atmosphere of the scene with the other band members before recording and then editing to picture after. He says "It frees your imagination to try and capture a world that only you can see and feel but in total relation to the director's overall vision. Living in Belfast for most of my life was also a big inspiration." Musically influenced by John Carpenter's Assault from Precinct 13 and Escape from New York, John Paul Jones' "Four Minute Warning" and Tony Conrad's "The Pyre of Angus Was in Kathmandu," the music pulses with the tension and potential terror of war-torn Belfast streets in 1971.
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Inspired by a number of conversations between director Yann Demange and music producer David Holmes, the majority of '71's score was created before the film was shot. Musically influenced by John Carpenter's Assault from Precinct 13 and Escape from New York, John Paul Jones' "Four Minute Warning" and Tony Conrad's "The Pyre of Angus Was in Kathmandu," the music pulses with the tension and potential terror of war-torn Belfast streets in 1971. "Holding it all together is David Holmes' terrific score, chiming guitars and drums hovering over a rubble-bed of sampled sounds and remodulated chords, plaintive melodies emerging from a bedrock of discord and disquiet... Demange uses Holmes' eerie score (to which he listened on set) to generate both growing tension and weirdly uncanny unease." --Mark Kermode; "A terrific soundtrack by David Holmes which ratchets up the tension and gives you this sense that things are eerie, things are uncanny, things are slightly out of wack." --Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
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