LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE THE SOUNDTRACK FOR MAXWINKLER’S 'CEREMONY'

(March 29, 2011- Los Angeles,CA) – Lakeshore Records will release the Ceremony -- Original MotionPicture Soundtrack available digitally and in stores on April 12, 2011. The soundtrack features original music by Eric D. Johnson (of the Fruit Bats)and songs by General Public, Van Dyke Parks, Ringo Starr, Eric Burdon & TheAnimals and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.

Eric D. Johnson is a singer/songwriter and sole permanent member of the Fruit Bats. In 2000 Eric joined Califone and Perishable Records. Through tours and relationships with artists like Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, and The Shins, the Fruit Bats signed with Sub Pop Records. Johnson hascontinued playing both with other bands and with the Fruit Bats. In addition to composing the music for Ceremony, Johnson has also composed the music for the upcoming film My Idiot Brother.

TOP FILM AND TELEVISION COMPOSERS TO SPEAK AT SAN FRANCISCO’S WONDERCON

Award-winning music talents Nathan Barr, Marco Beltrami, Sean Callery, Jim Dooley, ScottStarrett, Michael Suby and Special Guest Moderator Bryan Fuller to hit a highnote for fans at Sci-Fi/Fantasy gathering

San Francisco, CA (March 23, 2011) – Six of the top composers in film, television and video games are slated to speak for the program, Behind the Music with CW3PR: Composing for Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Film &TV at San Francisco’s WonderCon entertainment convention. The discussion will be held from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 1in Moscone Center’s Room 104.

Bryan Fuller, creator of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” and a producer of NBC’s “Heroes,” will moderate the panel; among those slatedto appear are Nathan Barr (True Blood, The Last Exorcism), Marco Beltrami (V, Scream 4), Sean Callery (24), Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies), Scott Starrett (The Event), and Michael Suby (The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars).

Allof the composers will share their respective projects, discuss the pivotalrelationship between director and composer, and reveal how they got their bigbreak in the music composing industry, with a fan-led Q&A to follow. Attendees will receive exclusive giveaways and be the first to view (andhear) some surprise sneak-peaks from upcoming projects. Dayand weekend passes can be purchased through WonderCon’s website: www.comic-con.org/wc

LATEST SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - 03/21/2011

Exposed - Georges Delerue (Intrada Special Collection Volume 166) – 32:25

Giu’ La Testa (Duck You Sucker) - Ennio Morricone (Cinevox 708, 2 CDs)

Homecoming: A Christmas Story / Rascals And Robbers - Jerry Goldsmith / James Horner (FSMCD Vol.14 No.6)

It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World – Ernest Gold (La-La Land LLLCD 1167) – 112:08

L’Incorrigible / Va Voir Maman, Papa Travaille - Georges Delerue (Music Box MBR 001)

Nuevo Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone (GDM Club 7078)

Robinson Crusoe On Mars - Nathan Van Cleave (FSMCD Vol.14 No.5)

Trail Of The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini (Intrada Special Collection Volume 163) – 44:13

Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project benefitting the victims of the Haiti Earthquake

25 Film Composers, 90 Musicians, 60-voice choir, dozens of production personnel

The recent earthquake and tsunami affecting Japan were devastating events.  The public is pulling together to donate time and money to that recovery effort.  However, the terrible earthquake in Haiti last year has almost been forgotten.  The Haitian people still need help, and the Hollywood film music community has found a way to lend their talents.  25 of the leading film composers have joined  with “Hands Together” in aiding the Haiti relief effort.  On Saturday, March 26th from 10am - 6pm at the Warner Brother’s Eastwood Scoring Studio, an original symphony is being recorded and all funds from CD sales will be donated to Hands Together.  Everyone attached is working for free and Warner Bros is donating their studio.

What:
“Symphony of Hope” --A concert recording collaboration by 25 Oscar, Tony, Grammy & Emmy winning composers benefiting Hand Together. The concert piece is based on Haitian melody and added to by each composer, and everyone involved is donating their time.

When:
Saturday, March 26th 10am -1pm 2pm - 6pm. recording time.

Where:
Burbank, CA - Warner Bros’ Eastwood Scoring Stage. Warner Bros Lot (all guest must be cleared in advance)

How:
CD and digital download will be released, DVD will be released documenting the process, a full-scale concert event is underway.

Who: Contributing Artists:
Nathan Barr (True Blood), Tyler Bates (Capt. America, 300), Jeff Beal(Monk, Rome), Christophe Beck (The Hangover, Waiting For Superman), Bruce Broughton (Silverado), George S. Clinton(Austin Powers), Elia Cmiral(Stigmata), Don Davis (The Matrix), John Debney (Passion of The Christ), Randy Edelman (The Mummy) Andrew Gross (Tenancious D film), Dave Grusin(On Golden Pond), Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, The Way We Were), David Kitay (Scary Movie), Christopher Lennertz(Supernatural, HOP), Deborah Lurie (Nine, Bieber), Lisbeth Scott (Passion, True Blood), Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), Ed Shearmur (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules), John Swihart (Napolean Dynamite, How I Met Your Mother), Brian Tyler(The Expandables), Michael Wandmacher (My Bloody Valentine), Timothy Michael Wynn (James Dean), Christopher Young (Spiderman 3, The Grudge)
Plus: 90 Musicians, 60-voice choir, dozens of production personnel

Hands Together
Hands Together is a non-profit organization established to assist Haiti's largest and poorest communities. The organization has built schools and provides every student with a daily hot meal. Other programs promote human development through water well digging, agriculture and production, and assisting the poorest schools and clinics. Hands Together provides hope to the poor living in Haiti. Hands Together is founded upon the teaching that recognizes the dignity of every human life and a fundamental responsibility to the poor and vulnerable.

UPCOMING SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - Varèse Sarabande, Kritzerland

Varèse Sarabande – May 3rd: FAST FIVE (Brian Tyler), CAMELOT (Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, TV)

Kritzerland - THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR (Alfred Newman, March)

LATEST SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - 03/17/2011

2012 Supernova: Sci-Fi Film Music Of Chris Ridenhour - Chris Ridenhour (MMS11004)

Audrey Rose - Michael Small (Kritzerland KR 20018-1)

Drive Angry - Michael Wandmacher (Lakeshore 34213)

Jane Eyre (2011) - Dario Marianelli (Sony 85258)

Land That Time Forgot: Fantasy Film Music Of Chris Ridenhour – Chris Ridenhour (MMS11005)

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus: Monster Music Of Chris Ridenhour - Chris Ridenhour (MMS11006)

Megaforce - Jerrold Immel (BSXCD 8882)

Ordeal By Innocence - Pino Donaggio (Kritzerland KR 20018-5)

Perkins’ 14 - Kostas Christides (BSXCD 8883)

Rango - Hans Zimmer (Anti 87141)

UPCOMING SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande

April 19th: MILDRED PIERCE (Carter Burwell), RIO (John Powell), SCREAM 4 (Marco Beltrami)

April 26th: LA FILLE DU PUISATIER (Alexandre Desplat)
 

LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE 'SOURCE CODE' SOUNDTRACK

Soundtrack Features Original Music By Chris Bacon

(Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore Records will release the Source Code -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available digitally and in stores on March 29, 2011. Chris Bacon (Gnomeo and Juliet) composed the original music.

“Chris was a revelation,” said the film’s director Duncan Jones. “We gave Chris what seemed an impossibly difficult task: create an original score in an extremely compressed time frame. One that matches the film’s fast pace and switches of mood and tone. One that not only identifies the emotional moments, but also elevates them. Chris delivered a seventy piece orchestral score that did all of this and more.”

Bacon described, “Duncan Jones (the über-talented director from Moon), Paul Hirsch (the venerable editor) and I decided to dive in and try to tackle the biggest musical moments of the film first: the frozen moment scene at the end of the movie, and the ‘Opening Title.’”

“The rolling string figure from the opening became a sort of musical glue, providing a motor to accompany Colter’s determination as the film progressed,” Bacon explained, “Hopefully something familiar to grab on to throughout the film when a melody wasn’t really called for. The middle section of the opening was more traditionally melodic, and became the theme for the mystery of what source code is.”

LATEST SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - 03/07/2011

Battle: Los Angeles – Brian Tyler (Varèse Sarabande 302 067 068 2)

Copernicus’ Star - Abel Korzeniowski (La-La Land LLLCD 1165)

I Spy Vol. 2 – The LPs – Earle Hagen (FSMCD Vol.14 No.3) - 64:27

Money Train – Mark Mancina (La-La Land LLLCD 1162)

Telefon / Hide In Plain Sight – Lalo Schifrin / Leonard Rosenman (FSMCD Vol.14 No.4)

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines - Ron Goodwin (Intrada Special Collection Volume 161, 2 CDs) - 112:04

Unknown - John Ottman (Varèse Sarabande 302 067 064 2)

Wrongfully Accused – Bill Conti (Intrada Special Collection Volume 162) - 62:26

MOVIESCORE MEDIA RELEASES SCORES FROM ASYLUM’S CULT ‘MOCKBUSTERS’

2012 Supernova: The Sci-Fi Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour

The Land That Time Forgot: The Fantasy Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus: The Monster Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour

(March 2, 2011- New York, NY) – Moviescore Media (http://www.moviescoremedia.com/) is celebrating the works of composer Chris Ridenhour with three new releases, 2012 Supernova: The Sci-Fi Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour, The Land That Time Forgot: The Fantasy Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour and Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus: The Monster Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour. All three releases highlight the composer’s work with The Asylum and will be available digitally and on CD on March 8, 2011.

“I think the first time I saw the now famous scene where a giant shark eats a passenger plane midair in Megashark vs Giant Octopus,” said Ridenhour, “I knew that film would become part of pop culture and it has!”
Megashark earned a cult following after it aired on SyFy in the US. It earned Ridenhour a fan -- Moviescore Media’s founder Mikael Carlsson. Said Carlsson, “As an homage to Decca’s classical genre-orientated Bernard Herrmann albums which presented score selections in suite form, the Ridenhour albums feature lengthy suites from each of the films.”

Taking this approach to the albums makes sense, given Ridenhour’s methodology. “Musically speaking, my process begins with sketching themes, motifs, harmonic and rhythmic patterns that will define the characters. Once I have material that I feel excited about, the score almost writes itself,” said Ridenhour. “I'm from the Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams school. Themes are very important for me. Each character has to have an identity and a soul.”

UPCOMING SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - Film Score Monthly, Kritzerland

Film Score Monthly – TELEFON / HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT (Lalo Schifrin / Leonard Rosenman, March 7th), ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (Nathan Van Cleave, April), THE HOMECOMING / RASCALS & ROBBERS (Jerry Goldsmith / James Horner, April)

Kritzerland – ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE (Pino Donaggio, March)

LATEST SOUNDTRACK RELEASES - 03/02/2011

Broken Arrow – Hans Zimmer (La-La Land LLLCD 1164, 2 CDs) – 115:56

Citizen Kane: Classic Film Scores Of Bernard Herrmann - Bernard Herrmann (RCA 81264)

Classic Film Scores For Bette Davis - Various (RCA 81272)

Easdale: Film Music - Brian Easdale (Chandos 10636)

Elizabeth And Essex: Classic Film Scores Of Erich Korngold - Erich Korngold (RCA 81266)

Fear Strikes Out / The Tin Star - Elmer Bernstein (Kritzerland KR 20016-8) – 78:06

Laura / Forever Amber / Bad And The Beautiful - David Raksin (RCA 81268)
No Strings Attached - John Debney (Lakeshore 34206)
Now Voyager: Classic Film Scores Of Max Steiner - Max Steiner (RCA 81270)

The Rite - Alex Heffes (Silva 1354)

Spellbound: Classic Film Scores Of Miklos Rozsa - Miklos Rozsa (RCA 81269)

Sunset Boulevard: Classic Film Scores Of Franz Waxman - Franz Waxman (RCA 81265)

Yesterday Was A Lie - Kristopher Carter (La-La Land LLLCD 1163) – 65:22