PR: Rampart (Dickon Hinchliffe)

LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE RAMPART – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

Featuring Original Music by Dickon Hichliffe
with Songs by Billy Hough, Leonard Cohen, Gonzalez & Zuninga, Molotov and Others

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (January 17, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore Records will release Rampart – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on January 24th and in stores in February 14, 2012. The soundtrack features three songs by Billy Hough (from the legendary Provincetown lounge act Scream Along With Billy), plus tracks by Leonard Cohen, Gang Gang Dance, Gonzalez & Zuniga, EB Black and Molotov.


Dickon Hinchliffe is a founder member of the British band Tindersticks, in which he wrote songs and played violin, guitar and keyboards. His orchestral arrangements became a distinguishing feature of the band’s recordings. From 1993 to 2005 Tindersticks released six critically acclaimed studio.

Hinchliffe began scoring films with the acclaimed French director Claire Denis when she approached Tindersticks to write the scores to her films Nenette et Boni and Trouble Every Day. This was followed by Vendredi Soir which was Dickon’s first solo film score and attracted the attention of the American film maker Ira Sachs who asked him to compose the music for Forty Shades of Blue. The film won the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. Later that year he wrote a very different kind of score and a song for the British feature film Keeping Mum, a black comedy directed by Niall Johnson.

Since then, Hinchliffe’s credits include Married Life (again for Ira Sachs), the Golden Globe nominated romantic drama Last Chance Harvey, Cold Souls, the highly acclaimed Red Riding – 1980, and the Academy Award nominated Winter’s Bone. He recently scored Passion Play, and the Michael Mann production The Texas Killing Fields, and will soon be working on the score to James Marsh’s upcoming thriller Shadow Dancer.

"When I wrote the music to Rampart my aim was to engage in the emotional intensity of Woody Harrelson's character Dave Brown - his feelings for his family, his mounting paranoia and rage,” described Hinchliffe. “The music is stark, formed by electric guitars that are at times melodic, but constantly on the verge of feedback. I wanted the music to feel like it could go out of control at any moment like Dave Brown."

Los Angeles, 1999 - Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate.

Track listing:
01. Downtown - Billy Hough
02. Go Forth - Dickon Hinchliffe
03. Control Machete - Control Machete
04. Lupe Se Llama – Gonzalez & Zuninga
05. Hartshorn on the Beach - Dickon Hinchliffe
06. Parasito - Molotov
07. Dale Brinquitos - EB Black
08. Tres Delinquents - Delinquent Habits
09. Afoot - Gang Gang Dance
10. What Now? - Dickon Hinchliffe
11. Venice - Billy Hough
12. You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory - Billy Hough
13. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
14. Go Forever - Dickon Hinchliffe

Millennium Entertainment presents Rampart, in theaters on February 10, 2012. The Rampart --Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available digitally on January 24th and in stores on February 14, 2012.

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