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New MovieScore Media CD: THE FLOCK (Guy Farley)
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- CommentAuthormoviescore
- CommentTimeJul 29th 2008
MovieScore Media presents
THE FLOCK
Music Composed and Conducted by
GUY FARLEY
Sound clips and more info:
http://www.moviescoremedia.com/flock.html
Limited CD edition (1000 copies) distributed by Screen Archives Entertainment:
http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=10209
Download album in 320kbit mp3 format here:
http://www.filmmusicdownloads.com/WebFi … tm?id=6268
Download album on iTunes here:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt … p;s=143444
Exploring the darker side of his musical voice, Guy Farley (Land of the Blind and The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey) provides a truly ominous and frightening orchestral score for The Flock, a thriller starring Richard Gere and Claire Danes. In a style that will remind aficionados of Howard Shore's eerie genre scores (Seven and Silence of the Lambs), Farley's Flock music makes use of dark and dense orchestrations with subtle electronic elements – but it is also yet another example of the composer's knack for thematic writing and several themes and motifs creates unity and coherence in the work.
"From the start I knew I was writing for orchestra primarily (42 strings, 8 brass, 2 bass flutes, low winds, harp, piano and percussion) but I wanted to incorporate sound design, electronic rhythmical programming and some off-kilter instruments from the Indonesian Gamelan orchestra," the composer explains in the album liner notes. "My main theme was composed first for the character played by Richard Gere, Errol. Here was a man who had worked for 30 years for the state monitoring sex offenders, a man who, with little faith in the system or an offender’s ability to reform, had become burdened, exhausted, paranoid, lost and imprisoned by it. I wanted to convey this in my opening theme written for strings only, a kind of requiem. I developed this idea as the score unfolded, which is why it is a very ‘strings’ led score."
This is our third project together with Guy, and definitely not our last!
MMS08014 THE FLOCK: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Composed and Conducted by GUY FARLEY
Release date: July 29, 2008.
CD EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES.
For a preview of our upcoming CD releases, please visit http://www.moviescoremedia.com/comingsoon.html -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJul 29th 2008 edited
Mikael, though of course you've released scores from many genres, would it correct to say that your label has a slight tendency towards thriller/horror scores? What would you say was the reason for this?A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthormoviescore
- CommentTimeJul 29th 2008
Yes, there is a "slight tendency"...
At least so far! I have no genre preferences though, it's just that many of the most interesting scores I come across are written for horror films. However, of the next handful of albums coming out soon, none are horror scores! There should be two family adventures, one sci-fi (albeit with horror elements...), one action, and one drama! 
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- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJul 30th 2008
moviescore wrote
There should be two family adventures, one sci-fi (albeit with horror elements...), one action, and one drama!
Sounds good!
I wondered whether the 'slight tendency' meant that horror films in the low-to-medium budget range were more likely to invest in an orchestral score than a drama or comedy in the same budget range?A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthormoviescore
- CommentTimeJul 30th 2008
franz_conrad wrote
I wondered whether the 'slight tendency' meant that horror films in the low-to-medium budget range were more likely to invest in an orchestral score than a drama or comedy in the same budget range?
Hmmm, maybe - or at least the need for unusual effects and emotional depth triggers some astonishing inventiveness among the composers (Jeff Grace is my best example, I guess) working on these low budget films. Inventiveness both in terms of the music itself and the way it is produced (George Shaw, for instance, is incredibly good at combining samples with a fairly small amount of live players - Marcus is done that way while J-ok'el is done with a full orchstra, albeit a quite small one).
It should be mentioned, however, that there are literally dozens of low budget horror films released every month, and most of them really feature what you probably expect: sampled and electronic scores. But there are, as you've seen, some wonderful exceptions from the rule...
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- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeAug 2nd 2008
When I got home last night I downloaded this new score from Farley who is in my opinion a step above many of the composers. I'm sorry to say this but it is so much better than some of the crap I've listened to lately. In fact I've already written a paragraph for a review. Between George and Guy MMM is on a role.
http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/j … orge-shaw/
Thomas
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- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeAug 6th 2008
This is the third soundtrack I have listened to now from Guy Farley. The review is almost done.
Thomas
http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/l … indfarley/
http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/l … indfarley/listen to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeAug 10th 2008
http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/t … uy-farley/
I would say that Guy, at least in my opinion is 3 for 3
Thomaslisten to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorBregt
- CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
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- CommentAuthorThomas Glorieux
- CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
not mine, but the OTHER Thomas okay?
waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
I heard some clips the other day and i really liked what was there; gripping, modern horror scores are always a pleasure to me. Might check it out in full.Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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