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MARK KILIAN

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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008 edited
    Newcomer and yet unknown (at least to me), Mark Kilian has just released a new score through VARESE SARABANDE entitled TRAITOR.

    from Colosseum.de:

    The exotic and riveting score is from newcomer Mark Kilian.

    Mark Kilian is a film composer whose deep understanding and appreciation of South African music, jazz, electronica and modern classical music has formed a musical style which has been described as rhythmically sophisticated, evocative and driving, while retaining a raw emotional simplicity that draws on the creative use of everyday sound. His most well known work includes music for films by director Gavin Hood Tsotsi and Rendition, co-written with Paul Hepker and for television Daybreak and numerous commercials.

    Mark was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. During the early ‘90s, he spearheaded the popular Durban band Shades, which was one of the foremost club jazz bands to break the color barrier in South Africa at the time. He continued to perform with artists like Shirley Bassey, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Airto Moreira and the Brubeck Brothers. He toured the US and Europe and recorded two albums with Darius Brubeck as Gathering Forces and the NU Jazz Connection. In 2004 Mark and collaborator Paul Hepker, a fellow South African, went to South Africa to score Tsotsi for writer/director Gavin Hood. The film has subsequently garnered many prestigious awards around the world, was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA awards, and won the 2005 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

    Recent scoring projects (also with Paul Hepker) include Gavin Hood’s new film Rendition (starring Jake Gyllenhaal) and The Bird Can’t Fly. Mark also recently scored Santosh Sivan's Before the Rains which will receive its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2007. Music For The Divine, a new album from Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) and producer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), features strings written and recorded by Mark. Along with composer Christophe Beck he recently completed his second record Sedattalite with avant-garde electronica outfit Ape Quartet.



    TRACKLISTING / ARTWORK / SAMPLES
    https://www.colosseum.de/colosseum/prod … edf2832b59

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    Has anyone heard anything from the composer - or this very score indeed, and can provide feedback? Any good? wave
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
    It's exotic and riveting.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
    NO.SHIT! You are the one responsible for the oh so humble, restrained and realistic Varese score tags!?! shocked MY.GOD!
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
    Apparently it's a rare masterpiece.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
    Martijn wrote
    Apparently it's a rare masterpiece.


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    • CommentAuthorColSharpe
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008 edited
    I liked the samples of Before the Rains and ordered it.

    I read that Tsotsi is good, but haven't chance to listen it yet.

    Here you can hear 5 long samples of Traitor. I am not impressed (listen to the Traitor - Jailbreak):

    http://www.markkilian.com/site/index.ph … ;Itemid=33
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
    tsotsi is nothing special in the long term
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2010
    Legacy and The Pat Tillman Story

    Lakeshore Records will release the Legacy -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available digitally on October 19, 2010. Mark Kilian (La Mission, Rendition composed the original music.

    “The score features an exciting blend of retro flavored orchestral writing reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann's work with Hitchcock and a modern electronica sensibility applied to the writing and manipulation of acoustic and electronic instruments and percussion,” said Kilian

    South African born Mark Kilian started his music career as a jazz pianist working in and around his homeland. He played with the Brubecks, Shirley Bassy, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Airto Moreira and many local jazz and rock outfits and also played a lot of musical theater. After completing a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Piano, he went on to complete a Masters Degree in Composition and Film Scoring. Based on his academic success, he won a few prestigious scholarships and headed for LA where he attended USC’s graduate program ‘Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television.' He started working in the Hollywood movie business immediately upon graduation, writing, orchestrating, conducting and programming on movies like The Matrix Reloaded, Species, Copycat and The Animatrix.

    Kilian composed his first score in 1997 and since then has done many features and television, most notably Tsotsi which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2005. His most recent film is The Ward with legendary horror director John Carpenter. Others include Rendition, Traitor, La Mission, and Before the Rains. His TV work includes ABC’s Daybreak and Jake In Progress, Fox’s Kitchen Confidential and countless high profile TV commercials for Coke, Amex, Toyota, Microsoft and the memorable Apple iMac spinning color spot.

    His non film work includes 2 albums as The Gravy Street, 2 albums as Ape Quartet (all receiving radio play), string arrangements for Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple, a KCRW sponsored remix of an Ozomatli song with Anne Litt and music for a Getty Villa exhibition The Aztec Pantheon.

    Idris Elba portrays Malcom Gray, a decorated anti-terrorist black-ops soldier. When a military effort to tackle and arms dealer ends in Gray’s capture and torture, he later finds himself back in his Brooklyn apartment struggling to overcome the effects of severe paranoia and anxiety. While isolated, he reflects on the inconsistencies of the assignment gone wrong and begins to question the loyalty of his own brother, a senator on the verge of a presidential campaign.

    To give the sense of psychological breakdown and the loss of reality,” described Kilian, “the music never lets the audience settle into a comfortable thematic development pattern, but rather keeps the 'nail on chalkboard' idea throughout where many sounds are not quite 'right.'”

    Black Camel Pictures presents Legacy, in theaters on October 15. Legacy – Original Motion Picture Score on Lakeshore Records will be released digitally on October 19, 2010.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2014
    Revenge of the green dragon

    http://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Green-Dra … bsnr_42_45
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