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SONY MASTERWORKS RELEASES SHAME SOUNDTRACK
ON DECEMBER 6, 2011
A RICHLY VARIED SOUNDTRACK OF ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, ROCK, BLUES,
JAZZ AND GLENN GOULD PLAYING BACH
Sony Masterworks announces the release of the original motion picture
soundtrack of Shame, an award-winning psychological drama from
acclaimed writer and director Steve McQueen (HUNGER). At the 2011
Venice Film Festival, Shame received the Critics Choice award as well
as the Best Actor accolade for Michael Fassbender. The soundtrack
recording of Shame is available on Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
This movie – described as “a cinematic jolt” with “a brilliant,
ferocious performance” by The Hollywood Reporter and “courageous and
distinctive” by Time Out – is the story of Brandon (Michael
Fassbender), a handsome and successful New Yorker who spends his days
and nights navigating the reckless terrain of sexual obsession, on an
inevitable path towards self destruction. Surrounded by a constant
assault of beauty, glamour, and desire, he finds himself at a
crossroads when his wayward sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) – comes to
crash at his sleek Manhattan apartment. As Brandon struggles to deal
with his life of excess, his constant quest for numbness is an escape
from both his present and his past. Shame provides a cinematically
stunning snapshot of information-age disillusionment, and the struggle
for human connection.
In this role, Michael Fassbender, known for playing Archie Hicox in
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero
film X-Men: First Class, is brilliantly supported by Carey Mulligan
(Pride and Prejudice; nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an
Academy Award for her lead role in An Education in 2009) as the
younger sister.
Steve McQueen, British artist and filmmaker, was awarded the Turner
Prize in 1999 for his video based on a Buster Keaton film and the
Camera d’Or in 2008 at the Cannes International Film Festival for his
feature film Hunger.
For the original music, McQueen turned to Harry Escott, a young London-
based composer best known for the original scores for Hard Candy, A
Mighty Heart, Deep Water, and Shifty. Escott’s compositions focus on
the potential for music to function as a storyteller with the ability
to convey meaning and emotion. However, this soundtrack includes much
more, adding in powerful tracks from a variety of genres: from
classical to rock and blues.
One of the most admired piano virtuosos of the 20th century, Glenn
Gould, plays two extracts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg
Variations, a work with which he is especially associated, in addition
to the Bach’s Prelude No. 10 in E Minor and part of the Prelude &
Fugue No. 16 in G Minor.
Moreover, the mood of the film is enhanced by music from celebrated
artists of recent times: Blondie’s Rapture, for example, a song from
the band's album Autoamerican (1980). Rapture topped the charts in the
USA, the first song including rap sequences to do so. One of the
outstanding saxophonists of jazz history, John Coltrane, contributes
My Favorite Things, the title song of an album dating from 1961 that
put Coltrane in the Grammy Hall of Fame. A further track from the
world of jazz is Let’s Get Lost by the legendary jazz singer and
trumpeter Chet Baker.
Add to this You Can’t Be Beat by blues great Howlin’ Wolf and the
American New Wave hit Genius Of Love by Tom Tom Club and there is
something for every taste on this soundtrack. Not least there is Carey
Mulligan’s melting rendition of New York New York, slow and played for
every last bit of pathos, to sum up the emotions and dangerous hopes
that this serious and moving film expresses.
TRACK LISTING:
01 Harry Escott - Brandon
02 Glenn Gould – Goldberg Variations ; BWV 988 - Aria
03 Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
04 Blondie – Rapture
05 Chic – I Want Your Love
06 John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
07 Carey Mulligan – New York New York “Theme”
08 Chet Baker – Let’s Get Lost
09 Glenn Gould – Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855
10 Glenn Gould – Goldberg Variations – Var. 15 Canone Alla Quinta
11 Harry Escott - Unravelling
12 Howlin’ Wolf – You Can’t Be Beat
13 Mark Louque – The Problem
14 Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 885 –
Praeludium
15 Harry Escott – End Credits Film
For more information contact: cinemed...@yahoo.com or
@cinemediapromo on Twitter
ON DECEMBER 6, 2011
A RICHLY VARIED SOUNDTRACK OF ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, ROCK, BLUES,
JAZZ AND GLENN GOULD PLAYING BACH
Sony Masterworks announces the release of the original motion picture
soundtrack of Shame, an award-winning psychological drama from
acclaimed writer and director Steve McQueen (HUNGER). At the 2011
Venice Film Festival, Shame received the Critics Choice award as well
as the Best Actor accolade for Michael Fassbender. The soundtrack
recording of Shame is available on Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
This movie – described as “a cinematic jolt” with “a brilliant,
ferocious performance” by The Hollywood Reporter and “courageous and
distinctive” by Time Out – is the story of Brandon (Michael
Fassbender), a handsome and successful New Yorker who spends his days
and nights navigating the reckless terrain of sexual obsession, on an
inevitable path towards self destruction. Surrounded by a constant
assault of beauty, glamour, and desire, he finds himself at a
crossroads when his wayward sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) – comes to
crash at his sleek Manhattan apartment. As Brandon struggles to deal
with his life of excess, his constant quest for numbness is an escape
from both his present and his past. Shame provides a cinematically
stunning snapshot of information-age disillusionment, and the struggle
for human connection.
In this role, Michael Fassbender, known for playing Archie Hicox in
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero
film X-Men: First Class, is brilliantly supported by Carey Mulligan
(Pride and Prejudice; nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an
Academy Award for her lead role in An Education in 2009) as the
younger sister.
Steve McQueen, British artist and filmmaker, was awarded the Turner
Prize in 1999 for his video based on a Buster Keaton film and the
Camera d’Or in 2008 at the Cannes International Film Festival for his
feature film Hunger.
For the original music, McQueen turned to Harry Escott, a young London-
based composer best known for the original scores for Hard Candy, A
Mighty Heart, Deep Water, and Shifty. Escott’s compositions focus on
the potential for music to function as a storyteller with the ability
to convey meaning and emotion. However, this soundtrack includes much
more, adding in powerful tracks from a variety of genres: from
classical to rock and blues.
One of the most admired piano virtuosos of the 20th century, Glenn
Gould, plays two extracts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg
Variations, a work with which he is especially associated, in addition
to the Bach’s Prelude No. 10 in E Minor and part of the Prelude &
Fugue No. 16 in G Minor.
Moreover, the mood of the film is enhanced by music from celebrated
artists of recent times: Blondie’s Rapture, for example, a song from
the band's album Autoamerican (1980). Rapture topped the charts in the
USA, the first song including rap sequences to do so. One of the
outstanding saxophonists of jazz history, John Coltrane, contributes
My Favorite Things, the title song of an album dating from 1961 that
put Coltrane in the Grammy Hall of Fame. A further track from the
world of jazz is Let’s Get Lost by the legendary jazz singer and
trumpeter Chet Baker.
Add to this You Can’t Be Beat by blues great Howlin’ Wolf and the
American New Wave hit Genius Of Love by Tom Tom Club and there is
something for every taste on this soundtrack. Not least there is Carey
Mulligan’s melting rendition of New York New York, slow and played for
every last bit of pathos, to sum up the emotions and dangerous hopes
that this serious and moving film expresses.
TRACK LISTING:
01 Harry Escott - Brandon
02 Glenn Gould – Goldberg Variations ; BWV 988 - Aria
03 Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
04 Blondie – Rapture
05 Chic – I Want Your Love
06 John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
07 Carey Mulligan – New York New York “Theme”
08 Chet Baker – Let’s Get Lost
09 Glenn Gould – Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855
10 Glenn Gould – Goldberg Variations – Var. 15 Canone Alla Quinta
11 Harry Escott - Unravelling
12 Howlin’ Wolf – You Can’t Be Beat
13 Mark Louque – The Problem
14 Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 885 –
Praeludium
15 Harry Escott – End Credits Film
For more information contact: cinemed...@yahoo.com or
@cinemediapromo on Twitter
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